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Originally Posted by flak
I want to see if I can decrease the amount of aches and pains I experience if I put less emphasis on the big three and more emphasis on some other lifts. Let's say instead of always having squat, deadlift or bench as the main lift of the workout, maybe the main lift of the workout could be any one of the following -- squat, deadlift, bench, shrug, good morning, SOHP, power snatch, power clean, lunge, BOR. Something like that. I'm still figuring out what I'll do. If you think that's a bad idea, feel free to say so.
As far as meandering -- In the past couple months I've been working around minor injuries/sore parts, so I might do one workout that incorporates some squat and some pull movements, or some push and some pull, or some squat and some push, or all three. Just trying things out to try and get better recovery.
I'm not bored. On the contrary, I have to restrain myself from doing a lot more volume than I'm doing. I like lifting for the sake of the physical effort involved. In some ways that's good, in some ways that's kinda risky.
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No offense intended Flak when I said meandering or boredom. I've ben guilty in the past of these crazy workouts where I thought more is better. I'd do every kinda of bench movement I could think of to failure or pull downs with three different kinda of bars or every kinda of curl exercise I've ever heard about untill failrue.
Working out like this cost me a lot of joint pain as I get older plus I just ended up burning out and quitting.