Training details don't matter too much for this period. Was doing a set of 5 back squats in Washington DC on Monday the 9th, in a fatigued state, and coming off a pretty emotional personal period the previous day involving my ex wife and wife. Not great. Was doing 325, which was a PR. Second set of 5, last rep was bad, a bit of good morning, leaned to the right, pulled on my SI joint on the left. Racked it, was like what the hell just happened. Walked it off and then did the 3rd set of 325, no issues, better focus, but thought something was a bit off. I then went to deadlift. Like an idiot, I pressed on. Deadlifts were feeling fine. Got to the top set of 5, 365, another PR. On the 2nd rep, locked it out and felt a little "pop" near the SI on the left side. This is an old issue area. I immediately cut the workout.
Rolled around for two more days in DC, didn't do much, lot of stretching, long plane ride back, survived it ok. Left hip and SI were not great, but I also knew that what had likely happened is my right side locked down, and the left side turned off, feeling pain on the left side but more likely the real problem was the right side. Had 2 chiro appointments last week, those helped. Did a bit of training, and then Saturday felt like I could go just a little bit. On a backsquat with 185 on the 5th rep felt the left SI "grab" again. Slept like shit on Saturday night. Pissed off.
Today on Monday the 16th, took another long walk (those are feeling great) in the morning, push-ups, pull-ups, and some body squats practicing the SS squat position, all felt fine. Had an amazing session with my acupuncturist / bodyworker where we we went to town on all the troubled areas. Immediate relief. Also had another good chiro appointment this evening. I am back on track, but am going to keep to body weight for the rest of this week. We head to Hawaii on Sunday for a week. There is a gym there. I am going to dial it seriously back, I mean way back, on the loads and work on form. I have continued to study and re-study the SS Blue Book and can see a number of things I can do better with the squats in particular. I am hoping to get back to 225 quickly (confident I will) and then go back to adding 10 lbs to the bar each session, really focusing on hip drive, hitting the hole and driving the ass straight up. No pausing and messing around in the hole. I also need to work on the bar path. Can't let it move forward like things started to do when I got to squatting 320.
