I’m not sure if you’ve covered this before, but what if the break is not from training, but a specific type of training. For example, what is advisable if you take a month or two off from strength training, but have been doing other forms of training in the meantime [a sport, odd object training, etc] that doesn’t require maximal or near max effort? I remember you saying that it only requires 20% volume to maintain strength gains, but what if you can’t/don’t maintain it over the break? Thanks.

Besides the standard glucosamine, chondroitin, MSM mix, do you know of anything that might help? Twelve weeks off might heal my wrist, but would wreck my mind. (I need the exercise for stress release — I’m swimming laps now, which I dislike very much, even though I’ve turned them into HIIT sprints.)

Thanks!

Have you ever found that people with quite a bit of prior experience who eventually ended up experience a more length layoff sometimes have a tougher time when returning to training on account of a tendency to over-analyze things? While true beginners are notorious for doing dumb stuff in the gym, they also tend to bust their butts and not worry about minutia and many extra details.In this vein, is it possible that a very knowledgeable person would do well having a “third party” trainer design the programs for a while, so he could focus on bringing the effort as opposed to all the nuts and bolts? I find that designing quality programs for others is a snap, but designing my own can often become somewhat maddening, even when I remind myself not to get hung up on majoring in the minors, so to speak.