Dear Reinhard!
Thanks for this new episode. Your plans for 2024 sound promising. From time to time I like to listen to your older podcasts when I feel inspired by a certain system. So I really look forward to those new podcasts on "old systems".
I guess you have enough ideas on new topics. But if I may suggest a topic: I'd be really interested in your "getting up early" routine, Angel Numbers. Sounds like a topic worth talking about for a bit.
Concerning Shovelglove and injury: I suffered from a tennis elbow at around the same time as you had your golfers elbow. Mine was directly linked to some PullUp Challenge I did. For me maxing out on PullUps every day without proper rest in between the sessions was what caused my tendons to get inflamed.
When the acute pain was over and I made a plan on how to start again I considered myself to be lucky: Some years ago I found a guy on the internet who wrote about systematic moderation and such thinks as "maintenance is more important than progress". You might have heard about him. Sounds smart to me...
So I slowly started my PullUps again, 1 every second day. Increasing the number every month. Probably that could work for you as well?!
And concerning progress: I really like the idea of the book "The simple six" where the author suggests to do a "rolling focus" meaning that each day one exercise gets special attention and you do e.g. 5 rounds of PullUps whereas on the other days you do more maintenance work and do one round of PullUps (in his system then the next day Squats get the focus, then PushUps etc). For me that works really well. Probably it is the missing link between maintenance and progress. That one day you get a good stimulus for progress and the rest of the week you can recover still maintaining what you already got. To be honest: at least to me progress is fun and I am not free of the idea that I want to be stronger, become better at doing eg PullUps, more PullUps etc...
These are my latest thoughts on fitness, injury, recovery, maintenance and progress. To be updated...
Reinhard, all the best for 2024, looking forward to listening to your podcasts!
Yours, from Germany
Stefan