Soreness

[Scott Stevenson]

No tv Well your not missing much.I only watch football most of the time i am online.As far as calories since i got out of the hospital i have been keeping cals around 2k.Im not working so i have to keep bf in check.Once the colder weather hits i am going to up the food intake.I take the kids to the pool some days and do some swimming and 2 or 3 days of incline walking on the treadmill.With fortitude i find i dont need as much cardio.I'm currently at 200 leanest i have been since my twenties.Foods are clean with plenty of fruit mostly strawberries.The hardest thing for me has been my pressing strength.I was never a strong presser but this is the hardest for me to progress in.My loading chest movements are incline smith,flat smith and incline hammer.My max bench was 345x1 and this was ages ago lol.

I put curcumin on pretty much everything i eat and take astragalus daily along with my bp meds.Also my stress pretty much zero after my ordeal.Things that used to ignite me just seem so pointless now(EVEN THE KIDS LOL)cut out toxic people and now just kids,dog and my mom i take care of as she has Parkinsons.I will take the hook pics tonight.Happy sunday Scott!

This is so very nice to read, man: Gleaning perspective and transforming it into wisdom is the beautiful side of life's challenges (almost the point of them it seems, perhaps) that can be often missed.  

That's a very common thing with Fortitude Training (affect on body comp, food intake, etc.   It's interesting b/c I decided to just use some Q's I'd been asked to create content for my podcast (muscle Minds - recorded yesterday) and I used your core original question (on muscle soreness) as also addressed another one on whole body training where I noted this very effect, which you confirmed for me.  

Pressing progress does seem to be the hardest for most to progress on (when intermediate and beyond) and also what tends to slip the most when dieting.  I think some of this is simply b/c of the general focus most have on just moving big weights in the pressing movements early on that progresses the skill / neurological adaptation for these lifts ahead of others, leaving little room for progress  (and greater chance for backsliding) later on in one's lifting journey.   345 for a max bench is damn good, man, though, really!

-S