Hmmm, I don't think lifting in the heavy 5 RM is going to help your rehab after you're done healing. More to the point, just because the first week of P.T. doesn't have you lifting heavy weights doesn't mean it's shit neither. I see everyone on bb.com doing Rippetoe's program, as well they all should, but you cannot confuse always hitting PR's with lifting 60% of your max..
Might as well repost what I put up in your IM journal:
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Originally Posted by 0311
For anyone marvelling about the daily volume of the first week, I might as well throw this in... The first week is the hardest. It looks worse than it actually is (excluding legs). High volume workouts with shock techniques added is where most of your sarcoplasmic hypertrophy comes from. It is hell on muscle metabolism, and causes the most DOMS. More burn sets means more occlusion and more lactate. These are necessary to release local growth factor hormones.
The farther you drain your muscle energy reserves of ATP and glycogen at once, the stronger the signal to produce extra mitochondria. Skeletal muscle normally has relatively few mitochondria and therefore a limited ability to perform anerobic contractions. When new mitochondria are produced, they bring with them extra stores of energy to work with. This produces increased muscle size, albeit without new strength. The extra energy stores do however carry over to other training phases so that more work can be done in them, this will make them more productive.
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There's a purpose for everything. I thought I read something somewhere about you not having the best nutrition, which aside from not warming up or improper form would cause a bad injury. Anyways, either way, if you want PR's, then go for PR's, if you want to at least finish something challenging, then do this one. I just have this nagging feeling that if you weren't seeing everyone's journals at bb.com doing 3x5 for everything, you'd at least heal and try this program again.
Sorry to hear you got injured.
Take it from me, mind games start to play with you in the mirror. My advice is to focus on nutrition, stay active (such as walking) to stimulate blood flow, and don't look in the mirror. You shouldn't lose very much, and whatever you do, muscle memory is a wonderful thing. I took two months off of any chest pressing after my light tear, and it didn't take long to gain it all back. Take it as a learning experience..More warming up, eating more of the right things, and dropping the weights down and concentrating on perfect form.
If you have any questions pm me. When the time is right, and you're just about healed, I'll be happy to give you a spreadsheet of the workouts I used to get back into it..Full body HST.
I know how you are..DON'T PUSH IT! Grab some r & r....