19 Sep Danny Vega – 7/9 “Training” and thoughts

Currently reassessing what I’m training for. With ongoing knee issues the last two weeks have been tough on my mind and body. It’s extremely frustrating, but that’s life.

So let’s recap what’s happened in the last 7 days. Hit 515 for a triple on squats and knee hurt so bad I couldn’t do my back down sets. It was killing me for the next couple of days afterwards but got better by Friday and I was able to pull 555 for an easy triple. Fast forward to this morning: I take my 4 ibuprofen, bathe my knees in motion medicine before leaving the house,  warm up and prehab extra long, and proceed to squat.

It went like this: 55×10, 145×8, 235×6, 285×5, 325×4, 415×2, 475×1. That was to be my last warm up before going for a double at 525. Here’s the video:

475 last warm up. No top set for me today. My knee is still hurting from last week's heavy triple. It feels fine until I put some weight on the bar, then it feels like bone on bone. Gonna Deload next week and then revisit. Hopefully no further action will need to be taken. On to deadlifts. Same game plan. Warm up and see how it feels. @tony_cowden @brandoncrabill @jasonpegg

A post shared by Danny Vega, M.S. (@dvegatron) on Sep 19, 2016 at 4:04am PDT

The pain on the descent sucks. And here’s the thing–I just don’t care enough anymore. I’ve always been a goal oriented person and the thought of quitting before I hit a goal is so repugnant. On top of that, I know I have this log and people that may “follow” what I’m doing so I feel obligated to them and my teammates. But in actuality, nobody really cares and I shouldn’t care if they did. I owe nothing to anyone but myself and my family. I need to be a good father and husband who isn’t too beat up to play with his kids.

So the minute I start to get past the point of discomfort into the area of pain, I need to stop doing whatever it is that is causing that. In this case it’s squatting. Once I get past a certain weight it kills my knee. When I last pulled out of a meet it was bc my knee had gotten so bad that it was affecting my deadlifts. I was supposed to pull an easy double at 600 and barely got the single. This morning that happened with 565:

The stanky leg is back. 565 for just one. I'm done.

A post shared by Danny Vega, M.S. (@dvegatron) on Sep 19, 2016 at 4:19am PDT

You can see the leg shaking as I lock out. It’s so stupid. So without talking to anyone else, I’ve already made my decision. I’m not gonna go for this 666. I’m just not. Am I disappointed? Let down? Feeling a huge blow to my ego? Yeah I am. But my ego can suck it.

It’s time for me to focus on different goals–ones that aren’t training oriented. I’ve had enough of a hard time trying to focus on them as it is, anyway. Now of course, in my emotional state, I already have another training goal in mind but I’m going to keep that to myself because 1) I can’t be trusted right now and 2) I’m done sharing every little goal I have with the Internet. I will heal up, and train and have fun, and that’s that.

Thats all for now. Later.

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Danny Vega

Danny Vega is a 220lb raw powerlifter with meet bests of 640 squat in wraps (610 raw), 400 bench, and 700 deadlift. A native of Miami, Florida, Vega received his bachelor’s degree in political science from Columbia University in 2004, where he was a member of the football team and a three-time Dean’s List recipient. Vega earned his masters of science in human performance from the University of Florida, where he worked with the national championship men’s basketball team along with women’s basketball, tennis, and golf programs. He then went on to become the Strength & Conditioning coordinator for VCU basketball. The Rams were 2007 conference champions and made it to the second round of the NCAA tournament.

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