Recovery Time between workouts

[Trader13]

The problem is that there's no real quantifiable way (that I'm aware of) to determine if you're fully recovered or not, so we just end up going on feeling alone. Am I the type that will recover in 4 days? Or the one that might need 10 days? Who knows? The only tangible sign that we haven't fully recovered yet is muscle soreness but that doesn't always happen with every workout, so I don't think that going on muscle soreness, or lack thereof, is a very reliable indicator either.

What a great business opportunity ... if there were some simple in-home test you could perform with your saliva or urine that could give you an objective measure of your recovery status. There might be some useful information in a before/after MRI or muscle biopsy, but that's not practical.

 

[rocketman987]

I think the squat is unique in the sense that it's definitely the hardest and most intense exercise to do, and also because it seems... for whatever reason... to put size on a person like nothing else. If I want to put on 10lbs of muscle in a couple of months, all I need to do is focus on squatting heavy.

Didn't you say you don't squat anymore because of the risk to your back?

 

[Frederick Foresight]

Upright rows are power cleans with more control over the load and a lot lighter on the cuff?

I don't think so. I'm not familiar with competitive lifts requiring momentum, because I never did them. But what you said about upright rows being "easier" on the rotator cuff didn't sit right. So I checked, to confirm. The power clean does not require the splaying of the elbows to the side, which is a principal feature of the upright row:

 

[rocketman987]

I don't think so. I'm not familiar with competitive lifts requiring momentum, because I never did them. But what you said about upright rows being "easier" on the rotator cuff didn't sit right. So I checked. The power clean does not require the splaying of the elbows to the side, which is a principal feature of the upright row:

I can't keep my elbows together pulling the weight from my waist? bbut you can from the floor?

 

[Frederick Foresight]

Oh, I see. You're trolling. How splendid.

 

[Baron]

Didn't you say you don't squat anymore because of the risk to your back?

That's correct. I do seated leg presses, hamstring curls, and leg extensions as my main leg exercises these days.

 

[destriero]

Sucks, Bro.

All I do is squat; thrusters; deads, bench/pushups; snatch. I have a reconstructed ankle and had a severed achilles... maybe there is some treatment for you back? Which vertebrae?

 

[destriero]

NEVER do upright rows. Elbows in!

 

[Frederick Foresight]

All I do is squat; thrusters; deads, bench/pushups; snatch.

Just curious: how many sets, and how often?

 

[destriero]

Just curious: how many sets, and how often?

Squats/thrusters today. I start with two sets of 40 thrusters and then the squats inside a cage. Tomorrow is off. Sunday is bench and PUs. Monday off. Tuesday heavy DLs. Wed off and then it starts over again next Thursday. I always take a day off between compound workouts.