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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9647620" data-attributes="member: 7026594">I was down with Covid from Saturday evening the 19th through Friday the 25th, but managed to get outside and get some sun and a little walking late in it.This Saturday the 26th I got back to the gym for what was supposed to be a light session, but wound up doing some elliptical, machine chest flies for sets of 20 (last time I did those was 4 months ago for sets of 12 at the same 100lb weight), machine triceps extensions (again sets of 30 instead of 20 the week before, except for the third set when I bumped the weight from 50 to 65; this is a new machine and I like the disruption I'm getting from it, but I am also learning the motion), lateral raises (weaker than I used to be, but I haven't done them in close to a month and they haven't been a standby since Feb or March), and inclined dumbbell curls (the one exercise where I had a substantial weight and rep drop from last time).  So a mixed bag of lost bicep and shoulder strength and increases/pent up energy everywhere else.Of course I should expect some strength loss between the Covid and having lost weight recently.  I had been stable around 182-185lbs for most of the last couple years but found myself dropping weight recently and decided to lean into it and cut a bit.  Tentative goal of maybe 15% body fat by the summer (as gauged by my cheap digital scale, so probably not the most accurate, but something).  I'm down to around 169-170 and under 18% by that measure.  My gym schedule has been pretty disrupted and erratic since mid March between the hip injury (which is doing much better) and now Covid, so I'm champing at the bit to get back on it 3 or 4 days a week and try to arrest and hopefully reverse the strength loss while I'm cutting/getting leaner.Glad you figured it out!</blockquote>

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