Spaghetti legs

I can not tell you how incredibly useless my legs are at this moment.   I did legs on Thursday and changed up my routine to squats and deadlifts ... my butt, my hams, my quads, useless... I still have yet to make it to the gym today for my upper body workout as I am moving around so gingerly!

Cumulative Week 26

I'm still here... but have been missing in action if you haven't noticed.  The last few months have been very hectic for me.  I just recently resigned from my current employer for one, a very big change for me after thirteen years.  Due to my injury I had in week 19, I have had to tread carefully with my workout program.  Over six weeks I had two weeks off,  in the third week, I only had a few days in the gym with cardio running before aggravation leading to another full week off.  I finally completed a full week that felt good, but I had further aggravation out of the blue and had to take some time off that week.  During this period I  tried to keep on track nutritionally but had a few stray days.  I have managed to find a happy medium with my sciatica issue with trial and error using warmth for preworkout and icing post workout.  I have also begun using my lifting belt in situations where I may have been unintentionally causing bad form to help reduce injury.

Currently I'm in week 27.  During my injury I was in a fat burning phase, but decided to start back in a muscle building phase just recently in the last few weeks.  I am actually up in weight,  however have made some improvements with lean mass.  I'll post up more information over the next few days.  I will keep this going for four weeks and then will switch back to a fat burning phase and will try to lose 12 lbs of fat in those 4 weeks.