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Haven't posted in a while. I made some significant adjustments to my routines after the lower back/hip issues a few months back. A bit less focus on the big 4 lifts and a lot more supplemental/isolation movements. It means an extra 10-20 minutes in the gym per workout but that's ultimately probably a good thing.

Unfortunately, those hip/back issues have not gone away, which I'm chalking up to getting older...and continuing to persist with much lower weight rather than stopping completely with the lower body stuff. Some weeks it's better and some weeks it's worse. Just before my week holiday break it was pretty bad, though really only with the squats. Then tweaked something in the "normal" lower back area a few days ago but have no idea how it happened! I did do a "welcome back" leg day tonight with lower weight and reps, and went back to the weight belt to give myself some support/confidence, and it went well enough.

Still hitting a wall with overhead press just a bit short of body weight.

Bench I actually did a new personal best, 1 rep at 220, which I was super happy about. The next week I tried 222.5 and failed but I was a little out of sync that day, so it wasn't unexpected. It's always been a long term goal of mine to do a 1.5x body weight bench, and I suddenly feel like it's actually possible (~150lbs, so 225 goal)!