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Okay guys so I have a little dilemma. I injured my knee a few months ago playing soccer and it's gotten a lot stronger but the pain is still there...only when I squat though. It doesn't hurt when I deadlift though. So I figured I'd just deadlift until it's 100%. How should I go about doing deadlifts only until the knee heals?


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I had something similar happen last year. I just kept training normally except omitting squats. I guess if you wanted you could add in extra deadlift assistance stuff in place of squats since you could recover easier without the squats.
 
I had something similar happen last year. I just kept training normally except omitting squats. I guess if you wanted you could add in extra deadlift assistance stuff in place of squats since you could recover easier without the squats.

Thanks! I was thinking of doing those back extensions that Pete rubbish does. Figured it would work my grip strength and carry over to my deadlift
 
Okay guys so I have a little dilemma. I injured my knee a few months ago playing soccer and it's gotten a lot stronger but the pain is still there...only when I squat though. It doesn't hurt when I deadlift though. So I figured I'd just deadlift until it's 100%. How should I go about doing deadlifts only until the knee heals?


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Can you lower the weight, or do box squats? Or a more narrow stance maybe?
 
Very unlikely, they wouldn't understand its purpose. Nobody that works there actually lifts.

That is actually really depressing....my old gym owner use to be a bodybuilder and the guy that bought the gym from him competed in both bodybuilding and powerlifting. But I'll be moving to Tennessee soon so I'm hoping I can find a good gym. [emoji28]

Can you lower the weight, or do box squats? Or a more narrow stance maybe?

I haven't tried box squats or lowering the weight but I have tried playing with my stance and doing both low bar and high bar. I guess I'll just do 135 for like sets of 20 unless it starts to hurt.
 
That is actually really depressing....my old gym owner use to be a bodybuilder and the guy that bought the gym from him competed in both bodybuilding and powerlifting. But I'll be moving to Tennessee soon so I'm hoping I can find a good gym. [emoji28]



I haven't tried box squats or lowering the weight but I have tried playing with my stance and doing both low bar and high bar. I guess I'll just do 135 for like sets of 20 unless it starts to hurt.
Box squats aren't as hard on my knee.
 
Yeah, box squats at slightly above parallel make a good deadlift assistance and don't hurt my knees when I do them. Try to mimic your deadlift stance for maximum carryover.

I usually pull sumo because of my little T. rex arms but I can't with my knee right now...I'm hoping to bring my conventional to where my sumo was at
 
I usually pull sumo because of my little T. rex arms but I can't with my knee right now...I'm hoping to bring my conventional to where my sumo was at

I've heard people say that about sumo bothering their knees, it's never hurt mine. I must have odd proportions because both forms feel and look natural for me, I'm a little stronger on sumo though.
 
Working up to my openers today pretty pumped for a Deload, I've never consistently lifted so heavy while off cycle the recovery is just not there and this Deload is much welcomed. Game plan today is
Squat 405 for 2 singles
Bench 275 for 2 singles
Deadlift 495 for 2 singles

Those are conservative openers for me something I can do for 4 sets of 3 without issue I'm playing it low this time as my only goal is to have a 1260 total I don't care to have anymore then that while injured, there will be another meet where hopefully I am in better shape then I can try for some new PRs
 
I know what old school powerlifting cycles looked like as well as what some highly ranked powerlifters are running now but I'm interested to hear what people think a great cycle for a meet would be. Ideally adding the most strength while putting on the least amount of added bodyweight. Disregard potential or likely sides for this conversation.
 
I know what old school powerlifting cycles looked like as well as what some highly ranked powerlifters are running now but I'm interested to hear what people think a great cycle for a meet would be. Ideally adding the most strength while putting on the least amount of added bodyweight. Disregard potential or likely sides for this conversation.
1g test, 1g tren, 80mg A-bombs and halo or cheque drops going into the meet.
 
1g test, 1g tren, 80mg A-bombs and halo or cheque drops going into the meet.

Pretty basic but solid. I've heard conflicting opinions if halo only needs to be used on meet day or if there is a benefit to running in for 2 to 3 weeks leading up to a meet.
 
My next one is looking to be around 700 test, 700 tren and I got some injectable superdrol I'm gonna try out the last weeks leading into the meet starting at 10mg ED. 60mg of Halo and 100-150mg of TNE on meet day, HGH throughout the cycle if I have the extra cash.

@Masters Power halo just on meet day seemed to work fine for me last time. I feel unwell after a decent sized dose and I wouldn't want to run it every day because of that.
 
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