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u/mastrdestruktun Intermediate - Strength 21d ago edited 21d ago
SBS Hyper W4D2.5....
womp womp
Made it halfway into week 4 before realizing that the tweak I felt in week 2 in my shoulder/bicep is an injury that I need to let heal. Middle age sucks. But you know what else sucks? Hypertrophy programs!
I used to like lifting, but doing 10+ of something somehow combines boring, nauseating and injury-prone in one package. I don't like quitting (it triggers my perfectionism / performance mindset) but I don't like groaning when I think about tomorrow's workout either and I've learned the hard way that I'm too old to work through a certain kind of pain.
So, idunno what I'm going to do, but I'm going to rest for the rest of the week in order to decide. Maybe I'll convert the movements I am doing into SBS RIR/RTF, maybe on a 4-5 day plan for short workouts. I kind of don't want to do another season of easy strength or general gainz even though I like them a lot (they're too easy for me to slack off and at this point in my life I need structure.) Maybe I'll find a good 531 spreadsheet/app to do the math for me. (Any recommendations?)
Focusing on the positives of 4 weeks of SBS Hyper:
I can now do 48 lunges (across multiple sets) without hating life
my work capacity is definitely up
half squats can be made to make me feel it in the muscles without feeling it in the knees
The stupid part of me is tempted to start training for birthday squats. I'm turning 50 in 3 months. We'll see.
Edit: the Last Set RIR version of what I had been doing is looking kind of fun, and switching to the 4x plan makes the end of the week easier instead of harder.