So I went to the gym today with good intentions, wanting to wind up my week with a productive session. There was one problem, almost everything I tried to do hurt. The list of painful areas included, ass, hamstrings, back, forearms, elbows, pecs, shoulders and one wrist.
I bailed on my intended 20+ rep pull up set around rep 10, because of the sore elbow tendons. The idea I had about doing a 12 rep dragon flag set died on the vine after rep 1, my lower back was killing me. I didn’t bother with push ups either I already knew they would hurt as well.
So I believe the main culprit are the heavy (for me) dead lifts I did on Wednesday. At the the end of my one way ladder I was pulling 295 for a couple reps. Heavy dead lifts tax most parts of your body to some degree. For me they appeared to smack my body with a bat. As I have gotten older the second day after a strenuous activity is always worse than the first. Today was pretty bad.
I have Fi and IronLoo to thank for this. Fi is the one that convinced me to resume dead lifting after at least a 3 year hiatus. Lou is the one that motivates me to keep at it. Watching his ferocious dead lifting sessions pump me up to pull as heavy as I can.
Don’t get me wrong, I think dead lifting is one of the best total body exercises you can do. Unfortunately, at 45 years of age, pulling heavy things off the floor can be a painful (and risky) proposition.
I am hoping by Sunday I am feeling less geriatric.
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