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Summer + Lower Body Injury = Time for the bro split. Pull ups and Dips and Bench Press, Oh My!
Commiserating with you. Nothing more frustrating than an injury right before the fun part of the cycle. Last year I was doing Smolov Jr. working on hitting a two plate overhead press, and right at the end of week three when I was close to hitting my old PR for triples, I threw something out of place and had to stop. All that hard work out the window.
Yep, it's pretty frustrating. I'm having some luck coping by reminding myself that spring was a big success and a couple weeks of recovery isn't even a bad thing from a pure physiological perspective.
So yeah... way more time to go do the right thing in the gym rather than staying outside for runs.
Cheers!
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