I've identified with being strong for a very long time now. With the tear of my left tricep and needing surgery I find myself with my first real training layoff. Even when I tore the two attachments of my left hamstring I continued to train push and pull movements. The last time I took off.. I mean really off.. where I didn't touch a weight for an extended period of time was 2005.

So I find myself contemplating a layoff. I think I need one too (funny how that is). This won't be easy because training has filled an important part of my day for close to two decades now. I never realized how much bandwidth it occupied on a daily basis till right now. I've spent so much time thinking about the next training session, looking back on the training session that last occurred, building my day to leverage my gains, obsessing about sleep and rising early enough to hit the ground running, supplementing, injecting, on and on. And all at once.. pooof all of that bandwidth just opened up!

Holy crap... there's a whole life out here...