Mid Cycle, Take a week off?
I was tire flipping sunday of last week, hurt something with calf tied into hamstring, finished what I was doing anyways, then wednesday I did 425x5 on deadlift, despite it hurting really bad, ended up aggravating both glutes, so this last sunday when I went to deadlift I couldn't even get through my warm up and I stopped.
Supposed to give it a go again tonight, but tempted to just bag todays and thursdays lifting days and go on my little lake trip and lift again when I get back. I never falter, but I feel like this might be best.
Currently on low dose test, npp, and low tren a. Meant to be an aggressive recomp, but so far I haven't even gotten to the aggressive point with it. My lifts are finally getting heavy again, almost up to they were when I was at my heaviest, so I am feeling a bit beat up now at my current frequency and intensity. I start with a 3-5 rep max in a lift for a single set, then move on to mostly 10 rep stuff with 1 minute of rest, 20-25 sets, upper then lower eod. Need to change something, could pull out some sets, or switch to push/pull/legs eod, or stop doing the 5 rep max which I move up 10 lbs every session basically or alternate times I do it. Diet is alternating high and low calorie days. cardio on non lift days, and as the recomp went on would be increasing cardio and decreasing calories this day.
So is this a terrible idea to take a week off? I think something is wrong with me, mainly my muscles feel partially cramped all the time. I know I have thyroid issues and doctor offered me armor thyroid, but not sure if that is the cause, and not ready to jump on that. Also taking lots of iron because of absorption issues. I started taking a lot of magnesium thinking it could help with the muscle crampy stiffness but a couple weeks of that and no relief.
I've also been falling asleep at work, almost every morning when I get there, and sometimes mid afternoon, tren doesn't give me insomnia if anything it feels like it makes me need more sleep, but I started getting more tired before i started the tren so likely not it.
I just feel like it would be such a waste to take a week off, especially since first week of august I have an over week long trip that I won't be lifting.