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hey i do jsut that i've been busy the past few days. The routine's been awesome so far haha. with that, i just remembered i have a problem with doing dumbbell work . my workout begins with warmups and stuff, stretching, and then i'll drive to the gym nearby and have like a30minutes boxing and kicking practice sing a punchingbag.

while i may feel both my thumbs sometimes in punches when i throw a hook punch too hard for my knuckles to handle. that's still alright. just that I have injured my right thumb a couple of times when i was playing basketball 10months ago or so. As far as i can remember, i normally injure it when trying to steal or catch a bad pass, with my thumb poking the basketball.
 That has really made my right thumb a tonne weaker compared to my left. about 2 weeks ago before you gave me the new routine. i was doing back squats, shoulder presses, and tried supersetting back rows + dumbbell chest presses, which started about 15-30minutes after i trained in a 1hour personal training session for mma which consisted of lots of punches that wore my right thumb down.
When it came to dumbbell chest press, after getting the dumbbel up in the air and going down for my first rep,  bam, my right thumb couldnt take the load and i had to drop the weight. could've broken my thumb if i pushed longer.
I only notice this right thumb problem after starting mma training, particularly boxing. Of course, that day ti was 1hour of personal training, but i was training with lots of pad work.
Now, i train with a punching bag, heavier , but it also restricts the amount of force i can put into a punch since my knuckles arent that strong yet unlike training with pads, where i can go all out since the pads are light as shit.
Now that my knuckles and my punching techniques are getting better, i'm afraid that 30minutes could do the job of wearing down my right thumb enough for me to not be able to db chest press. Would some sort of push ups variation be alright?

cheers

nice thanks alot man. but a question, 1minute rest? isnt that a little too short? will 2minutes be okay?

EDIT:i do back squats twice a week two. would ths be okay:
day1:back squat
benchpress
pullups
assitwork
corework

day2:
back squat
shoulder press
back rows
assistwork
corework


assistwork being dumbbell work

i can only increase 2.5 at once. hmm. what aey ou thoughts on money set? like ramping up till a certain number, focus on increasing the weight on that set everytime you owrkout, then take off some weight and some reps to get more volume in.

also, is benching once a week enough? i do bench presses once a week, shoulder presses once a week. maybe add in dumbbell bench press on my shoulder press days since i have 3days of rest before doing bench press?

ah I see
ring may be different on my barbell so would you say that when you unrack the barbell in bench press, your handa are way wider than shoulder width ? also do you brinf it down to your lower or middle chest? 

where were you placing the weight? its best to place it between the shoulder blades if you want to do weighted planks.

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well i tried it lower down on my back, as well as at the middle of m back. the lower one is a killer. even putting theweight in the middle, forcing yourself to hold a little longer stresses the middle back sectio nof your spine, the lower trapezius i believe. you can feel the effect when you lie down at night

Hey guys, well i've noticed recently that when i sneeze, my back, particularly the middle back, would hurt and have this sharp pain in the spine like as though it's gonna snap. Normally sneeze in the morning, so not sure if it's just my body still stiff and not awaken up properly or i do have some back issues. My history of injuries associated with my back would be a hairline fracture at my lower spine, which in this case, doesn't seem like that's the problem as the pain is felt above my lower back. But another problem would be  my body being stiff, back being stiff too
if not mistaken the pain is somewhere lower down the lower traps. the middle of your back.

Ever done an abs crunch machine with too much weight that you start feeling that middle part of your back? or probably usign too much weights on lateral raises: http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/DeltoidLateral/DBLateralRaise.html

or even weighted planks, and pushing yourself when your abs have given up and you start feeling it in your back?
Well not that i do weighted planks or ab crunches anymore, i still do some core work which really works my abs on keeping the spine straight and preventing it from hyperextending


well then if any details needed let me know

cheers

EDIT: just checked out some pull ups adn chin ups form video. Realised i have not pulle myself until my chin is at the bar. will reevaluate tmrw . Pull ups also some form problem will update this

lol back when i stopped squating and went deadlifting, could really feel the glutes. lol too bad i neglected my hip angle and turned more of a lower back workout.  Got a fkign big imbalance between my left and right side of the lower back now and deadlift made the difference biger lol