Off Road Journal

[HJP]

Great to hear from you! Nice to hear things are on the upward slope

[thecityalive]

Really happy to see things are going well with your shoulder (for the most part, right?) How much longer do you think you will have to weather the storm?

[mrelwooddowd]

Excellent news. You'll do that 300x18 again soon..lol

[macdaknife]

Really glad to hear that things are improving buddy!

[SCmmaFAN]

Nice to see you back on 5/3/1. I'm looking forward to trying that program again.

[J L S]

welcome back OR, glad to hear you are fighting your way back on track, and the shoulders good to go!

[J.C.]

Good to see you back again.

[dechrist]

wb OR!

[joey54]

Update...

Getting back on track and I'll return to journaling pretty soon. It's been a rough road but things are getting better. The shoulder is finally coming around and I've found some lifts that don't hurt it at all. But, the volume of Juggs has caught up to me and my lifts have tanked BIG TIME. Even squatting 300 lbs feels so heavy and I'm only able to get a few reps. My body needed a good rest and that's what it's getting. I'm back on 5/3/1 and lowered my training maxes to give me a break. Things are starting to get better and yesterday my squats were feeling pretty good again. Can you say Hardaginer?

Juggs volume near the end really did it for me too. What I have been doing and liking is a two lift days per week 3/5/1 set up. I am doing some other things as well, so it is just enough. Check it out.

[StLRPh]

glad you're feeling better old man

[StLRPh]

Bueller??????????

[bamazav]

Bueller??????????

I loled out loud at this.

[Mark!]

Let's go OR! Get back to logging buddy. Hope all is well.

[Kiff]

Hope your recovering OR sorry ti has been so long.

[ironwill727]

Hows the recovery going OR? Hope all is well.

[Time+Patience]

I have a lot of back tracking to do, but it appears that the biggest issue for you as of late has been a shoulder injury. From recent posts it seems to be getting back on track.

I hope you are able to get back on the horse and be comfortable while doing it.

[the pope]

its been a while since i was on here OR hope shoulder comeing along

[greemah]

Off Road have you been doing no training at all due to the shoulder? Or just not logging

[Coke]

Give us an update soon man, you know we got your back in here.

[GazzyG]

Give us an update soon man, you know we got your back in here.

This!

[LuNa]

This!

That!

[Jenningsj41]

which schedule are you following program 1, 2, 3?

[Bako Lifter]

This!

That!

These.

[Cards]

all of the above

[Off Road]

Haha...I just noticed this. Thanks for the concern everybody.

My training does continue, it always will. I healed the shoulder injury and just continued on with training. I am currently focussed on a couple of different goals.

Having obtained or surpassed all the Hardgainer lift goals (300-400-500) I am now on a quest to reach the last Hardgainer goal: 200 lbs bodyweight and lean. Also, since all my lifts are just above average, I am on a quest to make at least one of them way above average.

I am revisiting my 20 rep squat goal. I've always said that I wanted to squat 400 x 20 by the time I turned 50 years old. Well, I'm turning 49 next month so I better get my ass in gear. So, now it's a singular focus on the 20 rep squats for the next year.

I seem to work well with a different goal each year. The year I spent working on conditioning went really well and I continue to push the Prowler and run sprints. It's a habit now and much easier to maintain. Last year I focussed on the deadlift (my worst lift) and finally got it over 500 lbs. So, this is the 20 rep squat year...How that's going to mesh with the bodyweight goal is yet to be seen.

I need to lose around 15 lbs of fat and increase my 20 rep squat by about 100 lbs. I hope to lose the fat slowly enough not to impact the squat, but if push comes to shove, the squat will take priority.