Topic: Discussion on rest in an olympic lifting program

[Andy Dick]

Static Stretching pre-workout has been shown to decrease maximal power and strength output.

Another question, I took about a week off of lifting because my knee has been bothering me for about 8 weeks.  It felt kinda like petellar tendinitis.  The week off I only light squatted 2 days the rest of the week was just resting.  At the beginning my body was starting to feel good.  Then midweek my elbows and wrists started hurting and my knee started acting up again.  Does anyone ever get this?  Usually when I take full rest weeks were I do nothing my body goes through a phase where it just hurts.  I lifted Monday and felt great during the workout and had a great lift but post workout my wrists started hurting again.  My knee felt fine then in the middle of the night it started acting up again.

[Owen Duguay]

Andy:  seeing that you were injured in the past and rested up for a week then went back training I would think that you are over trained and the week you took off recently is not enough for your body to recuperate.   And my second opinion is that it is not a rest of 1 week that will rest up your body.   Not even 2 or 3 weeks necessarily.     It is the way you train.    Your body Andy is telling you to ease up.    Good luck