ive always dropped the dose as my mentality has always been more towards risks v benefits, im not going to be able to train hard in that period might as well give the body a rest, not as tho your going to shrink much
are you feeling it much when training then, took me ages before i had the confidence to attempt anything heavy
Well, I've had to modify my training a lot over the years. Prior to any injury, I was benching 385 x 5-6, leg pressing like 28-30 plates on the sled and stuff like that. I tore my pec and I've literally not once in 9 years even bench pressed with a bar. I do incline bench, but not more than 225 lbs. I do dumbells but not more than 100's x 12+ reps, etc...
So the answer is I never regained the confidence to go truly heavy. I tore my quad (hip) leg pressing and I barely ever leg press more than 10 plates now. I just do them differently, slowly, and do giant sets with extensions, lunges, sissy squats and other intensity techniques.
And I'm bigger than I was then. So go figure. Back then I'd curl 45's for 8 or so, now I do 55's for 10. I got bigger and stronger but I train lighter on many core excercises.
