Hyde’s Strength Odyssey

[Hyde]

I meant pushing this one due to knowing it is going to be limited by the injury, taking the hit, backing off the orals, rescheduling for the next one that fits in a good timeframe for the goal while closer to 198 than you have been in years outside of being depleted for weigh in, and going in trying for that Elite status. I would think you could probably get within weight cut striking distance in a relatively short period of time.

Okay gotcha. Yeah I can see the logic in that, however I have never once pulled out of a meet - it is a point of pride to make a showing, regardless of what I lift. That being said, I also really enjoy being at meets, entry is paid, and now my wife is judging a Pro Strongman League show 20 minutes away the day prior (of weighins), so I’m going to be down there either way!

I began taking the 25mg Anavar daily as of Saturday, but that also facilitates collagen synthesis and will speed any repair if there is any muscle tweak. Plus helping preserve lean mass during this cut of course. I’ll take 50 on bench day, but I probably won’t be adding more orals unless I see things going the right direction with my lower lifting.

 

[Hyde]

Current gear protocol:

270 test c
200 mast e
75 deca
40 tren e
2iu GH mon-fri
25 var (50 on tues)
3-500mg l-carn 4-5x/wk

 

[Rockslide]

There was a small pop in a facet joint, one with a history of fairly significant injury to the capsule, on the 8th rep pulling 496 the previous week. Then some inflammation following, and feels like either that alone or a strain to the accompanying intertransvere ligament off the right side (which is the previously injured side so it’s got some play there). You couldn’t tell without an MRI because it would express as the same radiating muscular pain outward either way, but it also wouldn’t matter because the rehab path is exactly the same.

No nerve impingement or sciatic disk issue in this case; it was a minor injury thankfully with fairly minor impact. For context, I was doing 365lb beltless RDLs 3 days after and still squat 418 without issue 7 days post. I just need to let it really catch up.


Yeah you know I told my wife I could probably stop training squats and pulls largely, show up and do better than if I dick around too much with this now, so I need to choose discretion every chance I get with it.

Your assessment sounds solid to me . Sounds like an intraspinous ligament , fascia, capsule etc. If so…. The good news is it is unlikely permanent…. The bad news is that it’s almost entirely a time thing. A good pain management doctor with some local and steroid may be able to help the pain but I don’t see how that would be worth the squeeze as the corticosteroid would probably delay healing and the pain relief would probably set you up to injure it or something else worse