Ok so after another chest and tri day at the gym, I am extremely discouraged. I don't understand how this happened, and no one can give me a straight answer. A little background and explanation would be suffice...
So I have a bad habit of taking off a few months in the winter. So dark and cold, and my energy levels drop. Last winter I took off from the gym for 2 months and gained 20lbs of fat putting my weight at like 238-240lbs. It was disgusting to say the least, and I started back to the gym while there was still snow on the ground. I went and still am going everyday through the week, and taking Saturday and Sunday off. I started loosing inches off my waist, and gaining significantly on my bench press. My weight stayed at about 235-238lbs. I was ecstatic to hit 225lbs on my bench press. I grew by leaps and bounds, and was eventually ending a bench set at about 275-280 (with a spotter of course). Weight stayed about the same, eventually I dropped to about 230-228lbs body weight, all in all I was extremely happy with the results I made this year. I had been going faithfully all winter and spring, and just about 4 weeks ago I was talked into "taking a week off" to fully heal and come back lifting more. well that's where my problem started.....upon my return the following week I was sluggish and not up to par like I was. My endurance and strength had dropped significantly. "I just need to get back into the swing of it", I told myself. I was having problems putting up 225lbs on the bar. Granted I am now at about 223-225lbs body weight, but today makes the 4th week back, and where I WAS putting up 225 about 8-10 times, I now struggle repping five times. I actually had to get a spot for 235 pounds today and was only able to get it up 2-3 times. WHAT HAPPENED!?!? I am very mentally discouraged and confused right now.
My supplements never changed, and I never went off of them that entire week off.
I take creatine pre & post, 50grams of protein pre and post workout, AAKG powder as well as some amino recovery powder. I take a multi vitamin every other day or so, some flax seed oil in my shakes, and a greens powder.
Before the week off I was still trying to quit smoking...maybe 2 or 3 a day, but right before the break I quit completely.
Like I said I have continued to loose body weight, but would that decrease my bench press? Someone said I hit a platu, but this is more like a grated slope...
Any suggestions please!!! Let me know if I am forgetting any details. I feel like I just lost my dog or something. I mean its not like I was juicing, and now I am not...I dont even touch the stuff...so this is very confusing for me to loose on my bench.
So I have a bad habit of taking off a few months in the winter. So dark and cold, and my energy levels drop. Last winter I took off from the gym for 2 months and gained 20lbs of fat putting my weight at like 238-240lbs. It was disgusting to say the least, and I started back to the gym while there was still snow on the ground. I went and still am going everyday through the week, and taking Saturday and Sunday off. I started loosing inches off my waist, and gaining significantly on my bench press. My weight stayed at about 235-238lbs. I was ecstatic to hit 225lbs on my bench press. I grew by leaps and bounds, and was eventually ending a bench set at about 275-280 (with a spotter of course). Weight stayed about the same, eventually I dropped to about 230-228lbs body weight, all in all I was extremely happy with the results I made this year. I had been going faithfully all winter and spring, and just about 4 weeks ago I was talked into "taking a week off" to fully heal and come back lifting more. well that's where my problem started.....upon my return the following week I was sluggish and not up to par like I was. My endurance and strength had dropped significantly. "I just need to get back into the swing of it", I told myself. I was having problems putting up 225lbs on the bar. Granted I am now at about 223-225lbs body weight, but today makes the 4th week back, and where I WAS putting up 225 about 8-10 times, I now struggle repping five times. I actually had to get a spot for 235 pounds today and was only able to get it up 2-3 times. WHAT HAPPENED!?!? I am very mentally discouraged and confused right now.
My supplements never changed, and I never went off of them that entire week off.
I take creatine pre & post, 50grams of protein pre and post workout, AAKG powder as well as some amino recovery powder. I take a multi vitamin every other day or so, some flax seed oil in my shakes, and a greens powder.
Before the week off I was still trying to quit smoking...maybe 2 or 3 a day, but right before the break I quit completely.
Like I said I have continued to loose body weight, but would that decrease my bench press? Someone said I hit a platu, but this is more like a grated slope...
Any suggestions please!!! Let me know if I am forgetting any details. I feel like I just lost my dog or something. I mean its not like I was juicing, and now I am not...I dont even touch the stuff...so this is very confusing for me to loose on my bench.