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Not posted in a while now, but... the Psoriasis has gone!

Not been to the gym much because of work commitments but here are my current lifts:
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I'm going to drop to 3 sets for the deadlift so I can keep up with my 2 additional exercises per workout and avoid damaging myself.
 
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Medical treatment, not sure I can discuss any more on these forums.

It's made a massive difference to my confidence, I'm so pleased it's gone :)

Had a great session today at the gym too, will post an updated squat video for critique and the updated numbers tomorrow.
 
Here you go, finally a shot without Psoriasis:

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I think I've improved since March (even if it's just shedding the Psoriasis!):
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Been a long time since I updated this...

I had a knee injury that I am receiving physio for which prevents me bending my knee very far (misaligned kneecap), and pretty much stopped weight training. I did replace the gym with squash and climbing though (nice to do something a bit more social) and am now down to 77.2KG and 12.5% body fat (the machine is clearly lying about the body fat, I'm more like 13.5-14%).

Hoping to get back into this log once my knee gets better but I will be switching to higher reps (10-12 reps, 3 sets) per exercise and a 4 day split.
 
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Had my first squat session yesterday since my knee injury, I picked a light weight but it went well.

20Kg (bar) x 8
90Kg x 8
100Kg x 8
90Kg x8

My knee injury has resulted in a very weak vastus medialis muscle in my right quadricep, which I have been advised to significantly strengthen to ensure proper knee alignment and tracking.

I've been incredibly lazy at the gym lately due to a lot of lifestyle changes recently (split with gf, moved house, new job... blah blah blah... excuses), and need to get back into the stronglifts. I'll try to get this log going again.
 
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Had my first squat session yesterday since my knee injury, I picked a light weight but it went well.

20Kg (bar) x 8
90Kg x 8
100Kg x 8
90Kg x8

My knee injury has resulted in a very weak vastus medialis muscle in my right quadricep, which I have been advised to significantly strengthen to ensure proper knee alignment and tracking.
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Based on your previous posts/vids etc and the advice you have been given (from a doctor/physio I assume), that is not a light weight, the last thing you want to be doing is letting your gym ego put you back in to injury.

Start off light, like 50kg light / 30-40% rep max light not at something close to 75% rep max (assuming a RM of 140 based on generous predictor from previous work)

Would be great to see you progress out of this injury, rather then cripple yourself and possibly make the past injury worse :(
 
Good points.

I was thinking about making 70Kg my starting weight for the 5x5 Squats. You reckon that's still too high?

Yes the advice was from a physio, although I've been given advice and exercises to do (stretches, foam rolling and various body weight and weighted exercises) including getting back into squats and see how it goes in the next 6 months.

For background, the injury was an old ice hockey injury that changed the way I walk slightly which has progressively gotten worse with time as the muscle imbalances got worse. The physio thinks squats with proper form would be a good supplement to his exercises in balancing out my muscles again.
 
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I haven't had an operation, but yes it probably wasn't the best idea in the world even if it's just because of the many months of not training legs.

My glutes and quads kill today!
 
With something like this starting light and focusing on the form and bringing everything together is best.

I would suggest starting at 50kg, squat every session like strong lifts and add 2.5kg per time. You will be back up to 100 in 6.5weeks and that will be loads of time to bring your knee up to strength without over stressing it.
 
anything that will put load through your knees, so squatting, deadlifting etc. The sole purpose of your dropping the weight is to help you build back up the strength around an injury, not to back track your progress. Bench work, seated work that doesnt involve your legs etc, plow on.
 
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