Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Sat Jun 13, 2020 6:53 am
Deadlifts are great, but they can really bite you. I tore a disc in my back a couple years ago doing them, and re-injured it a year later. Really painful injury. Getting geriatric sucks.
Anyways, Vinny, IIRC SS should have told you to use microplates (like a ring of chainlinks) if a 5lb jump was too big for you. You're really handicapping yourself with your diet as Mark pointed out, but you still should be able to handle much heavier weights if you've been lifting for years now, just from practicing so much.
Maybe you could try a grease-the-groove style program instead of SS; if you aren't gaining muscle mass, it could be better to completely concentrate on training your neurological system to make better use of the muscle fibers you have. Especially with a home gym set up it could be perfect for you. If only you'd been doing it the past few months when you've been home all day
I assume that this is what you are recommending?
https://www.amazon.com/44SPORT-Olympic- ... l_huc_item
I think I had been aware of them and read about them long ago. But certainly not recently. Quite expensive for five total pounds. Maybe I can find some locally via Craigslist. Just checked. Nothing available. I can certainly afford the ones from Amazon.
My expanded deadlift injury story.
As I stated, I was somewhat done after the first three of my work set of five but pushed myself to do the remaining two which is when I injured myself. I seem to remember I did them without using my legs and did too much using my back. Then went to my office where I sat the rest of the day in some discomfort (but not a lot).
Saturday I left my house around 8:30 AM for a 1.5 hour ride to see six high school basketball games. Then got home around 10:00 PM after another 1.5 hour ride home. Basically sitting all that 13.5 hours.
Then on Sunday I sat around at home all day.
When I got out of bed on Monday I could barely walk. Was in extreme pain in that back area which I'd injured. As I said that kept me out of basketball for two weeks while it healed. One of our fellow players then was a physical therapist. He told me that if I'd had more movement after hurting it on Friday then none of the subsequent would have occurred.
It did leave me with a problem, though. I make my money sitting down. How was I going to make money while also continuing the weight program? It was then in 2013 that I converted my office computer setup to a standup desk. At zero cost. I put both my trackball and keyboard on boxes on my table and put two monitors on shelves. And, I've not sat in that office since then.
Don't we all have limits? Otherwise people would be able to lift to infinity? Though my highest weights are fairly low compared to others I'm still definitely experiencing tons of life benefits from what I am able to do.
I acknowledge my diet handicap but a large part of it is philosophical. Not wanting to harm animals for my benefit. Though I'm not practicing that by owning carnivores (cats).
And, what is a "grease-the-groove style program"?!!! Well, here it is!
https://breakingmuscle.com/fitness/grea ... rk-for-you
Thanks for the suggestions!
Vinny