Pywell89
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Have just started week 9 of my own PHAT routine and I am absolutely broken.
My left shoulder is injured, my right shoulder isn’t much better. My hips are sore, my right forearm/ hand feels strained and I haven’t been able to complete any of the last weeks workouts without making some sort of modification.
The first six weeks went unbelievable, I gained about 2.5kg whilst staying just as lean as when I started. A lot of my lifts went through the roof. I added significant weight that my squat, deadlift and Press (dB). I generally felt like an animal in the gym and once I included OL Re1gn as my pre workout at around week 3 I felt even better.
Started to feel a little bit sore after 6 weeks so made week 7 a deload week, thinking the break would get me back on track but I haven’t got back to where I was before my deload 3 weeks later. I’m more sore now than when I started my deload, I haven’t gained or lost any weight but I’m visibly less lean (this might coincide with me running out of Vector 3 weeks ago). This has also completely destroyed my motivation during my sessions.
Help! Have considered taking a full week off and doing nothing, is this the way forward? I’ve dropped my calories in the meantimeto just above maintenance to avoid unnecessary fat gain whilst my training is suffering. What else should I do to speed up my recovery and get back to training properly?
Really don’t want to lose all of the great progress I made over the first six weeks.
My left shoulder is injured, my right shoulder isn’t much better. My hips are sore, my right forearm/ hand feels strained and I haven’t been able to complete any of the last weeks workouts without making some sort of modification.
The first six weeks went unbelievable, I gained about 2.5kg whilst staying just as lean as when I started. A lot of my lifts went through the roof. I added significant weight that my squat, deadlift and Press (dB). I generally felt like an animal in the gym and once I included OL Re1gn as my pre workout at around week 3 I felt even better.
Started to feel a little bit sore after 6 weeks so made week 7 a deload week, thinking the break would get me back on track but I haven’t got back to where I was before my deload 3 weeks later. I’m more sore now than when I started my deload, I haven’t gained or lost any weight but I’m visibly less lean (this might coincide with me running out of Vector 3 weeks ago). This has also completely destroyed my motivation during my sessions.
Help! Have considered taking a full week off and doing nothing, is this the way forward? I’ve dropped my calories in the meantimeto just above maintenance to avoid unnecessary fat gain whilst my training is suffering. What else should I do to speed up my recovery and get back to training properly?
Really don’t want to lose all of the great progress I made over the first six weeks.