FT Questions....

[Scott Stevenson]

A little update on the shoulder issue. Been rehabbing aggressively, researching some BPC 157 (big Dave Smith style). Shoulder felt a lot better, especially from the break on it during the cruise.

Decided to go heavy again during today's first upper load session.

Tried incline smith; shoulder felt off, only did warmups.

Tried incline DB, shoulder felt off, only did warmups.

Tried flat DB bench: could only do 100s for 4 reps before realizing something's going to break.

Did 1 set of pec deck to failure. Felt like crying afterwards [emoji24][emoji22] (not from physical pain but from the pain of not being able to train as heavy). Talk about first world problems...

Anyway, I hate to bore you with this stuff. My question is, is it fine to load the chest with some high rep (15-20 rep) to failure work and logbook that instead of my normal heavy 6-8 rep loads because I think the tendonitis is still flaring with those loads?

I have gotten tremendous growth off loading the chest with heavy progressive training; feel real bad taking a step backwards with this shoulder business.

I really appreciate you on behalf of myself and others for taking the time to read through our nonsense and answer these questions.

Sorry to hear you're still struggling with this.

BPC-157 isn't going to remedy everything, as I think you're finding out.

Did you try to seek out someone to take a look at your shoulder?...

I don't think you have a choice as far as doing something different. It could be that lighter loads will avoid aggravating the issue, but that's an absolute certainty.

I don't think you know what's going on in there yet, so it's very much a black box at this point...



-S