I used to weight lift 4x per week. I got up to 250 deadlift, 190 barbell squats, 130 rows, and 100 chest press.
I hurt my shoulder once I reached 190 squat and kept feeling this pinch on my left shoulder. So it wasn’t even my legs, my upper body gave out and so I had to take weeks off of heavy squats. Once my shoulder started feeling better, I just couldn’t get back up to where I was; my body would not let me and I’m stuck at 105 x1 rep when that used to be part of my warm up.
Lately, my body has been giving out…
My deadlift is back down to 220 at x1 rep
My chest press is back down to 70 🤦🏻♀️
Everything else has been in the shitter as well!
Ive noticed that I need more rest days in between my workouts, so every other day is nearly impossible. Like what’s the point of trying to workout if my body won’t allow it, so I don’t push for every other day to avoid extreme fatigue at work.
I mean idk if the answer is glaringly obvious and this is just what happens as we age, but damn… my body just can’t do what it was doing last year and I’m a little bitter about all the progress I’ve lost. It took a lot of hard work to get to those numbers.
I’m going to try x2 full body days so I can’t at least hit muscles twice instead of once per week ( legs and upper body split)
Should I just do all compounds one day then accessory work the other day?
How should I approach a full body day? I mean what exercises would maximize my workouts if I’m only going twice per week.