Workout hell -- advice and explanations needed

[Guest guest]

Last week I had a fairly serious Lyme flare, so I didn't work out at

all. I'm feeling pretty much back to normal now, except that on Monday I

was only able to do half of my normal squat-based workout (100 one-legged

squats instead of 200, etc.) and even today I'm STILL sore as all

get-out. I just started my pushup-and-pullup workout, which I postponed by

a day because I was _so_ ridiculously sore, and I already know I'm going to

be very sore from this one too, and it's quite possible it will also wind

up being a half-sized workout.

Is this a normal consequence of taking a sick week off? Is there something

else more ominous going on? The only thing I can think of is that I

stopped taking supplementary glutamine for my digestion.

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[Guest guest]

On 10/5/05, Idol <Idol@...> wrote:

> Is this a normal consequence of taking a sick week off? Is there something

> else more ominous going on? The only thing I can think of is that I

> stopped taking supplementary glutamine for my digestion.

I don't know about one week, but I took 6 weeks off or so, pretty

much, during fasting/anti-fungal, etc, and I lost, maybe 80 pounds of

my bench press max (guessing my higher-rep sets). Most of my muscle

mass loss happened *after* I started eating, too. When I started

going back, I was SUPER-sore for doing a much less strenuous workout

than normal. Glutamine will probably help. I'm gaining fast, and you

will probably see your self gain very fast for a few weeks.

Chris

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Chris-

>I don't know about one week, but I took 6 weeks off or so, pretty

>much, during fasting/anti-fungal, etc, and I lost, maybe 80 pounds of

>my bench press max (guessing my higher-rep sets). Most of my muscle

>mass loss happened *after* I started eating, too. When I started

>going back, I was SUPER-sore for doing a much less strenuous workout

>than normal. Glutamine will probably help. I'm gaining fast, and you

>will probably see your self gain very fast for a few weeks.

Since I'm doing body weight exercises, I don't have any easy metric, but my

usual routine is to do lower body (squats) on Mondays and Thursdays and

upper body (pushups and pullups) on Tuesday and Friday. On Monday, like I

said, I was only able to do half my normal workout, and on Tuesday I was

incredibly sore, so between that and the MCT-induced diarrhea I postponed

Tuesday's workout to Wednesday. I actually wound up completing a full

upper body workout then, but I've been quite sore since then. Yesterday I

did a full squat workout without that much trouble, but today when I went

to do my pullups, it practically felt like my muscles were tearing

apart. I think I'll just double up on the pushups and skip the rest of the

pullups entirely.

I stopped taking glutamine even though it was useful for my digestion

because my appetite was starting to be affected, suggesting excitotoxicity,

which I'd been worried about since the beginning. I decided to try a box

of Threelac, though, and so far that seems to be helpful.

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