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[Scott Stevenson]

Have you ever seen this in reverse....someone who used to do an exercise frequently getting worse at it on FT? I've noticed that my pressing has gone down quite dramatically recently and while I do seem to have lost muscle mass from the 3 weeks of low testosterone I also wonder if it's in part because I just got off of an OHP specialization phase. 8 weeks ago I hit a lifetime OHP PR of 14x145 in my first week of FT. I was doing OHP 3-5x per week just prior to this. Then when I repeated it I went WAY down to 8x155. Then this past week went down again to 6x155. All while at 188lb. Meanwhile...pull ups are tied at PR levels of 12x45 full ROM.

No, that's probably the largest strength loss I've seen specific to an exercise. (This, too, seems like it can be a function of losing the practice effect you gained during your specialization phase.)

-S