[quote=joop;%2Fbloards%2Fgbs%2Ftopics%2Freal-talk-the-bloard-thread-with-a-strict-no-irony-policy%2Fposts%2F6741] Bd that's awful news. Hope you can break through with the appeal. Wish I was a super savvy lawyer but all I really excel in is lifting weights. Speaking of which I have decided to end the macrocycle early due to accumulated inflammation. I should have tapered my hypertrophy at the end of the second mesocycle. Too much inflammation right now from overtraining for the invigoration of the third cycle peak to overcome. I got PRs across the board though. Hopefully my shoulder heals but the time I begin my next hypertrophy cycle in 2.5 weeks. It will be at a caloric deficit though so I have some leeway. Anyway i just feel bummed having to bow out of the cycle. Always this massive fear of losing progress whether that be muscle mass, strength, or neural efficiency. I lift so much and invest so much time and energy in it these days that my perspective on it has become really distorted, like this monumental apprehension that treading the proverbial water will be just as bad as drowning, so to speak, as it were [/quote] my whole routine is so fucked that i've just stopped worrying about losing gains (my bench is almost back to the beginning...). only thing that's gained in strength recently is my back from all the weighted night pullups