Soreness and sleepiness from medication; took 3 day break

It doesn’t hurt that I took this break. I had soreness in my right shoulder, but it’s not a stinging pain like nerve issue or anything. I worked *hard* doing 5 sets of my face pulls and 5 sets of my Bulgarian squats. The soreness came 2 days later. I worked as a volunteer doing large dishes, and being on my feet moving around large dishes may have cause me to have general soreness but a better explanation is I worked extremely hard doing the two exercises mentioned before.

Right now, and today, I feel quite good and I did work again as a volunteer. I don’t have the soreness. Because of all of these fact I lean towards it being delayed onset muscle soreness from hard workout. That type of soreness is normal and I accept it as part of my training. It won’t slow me down in the future, but I just want to be sure my right should is 100% to go before I get back on the handstands and pushups.

It’s kind of flighty to change exercises once again, but I need to adjust to overwork on any body part, and it’s possible that pushups *and* handstand work at the level I do is pushing too far. I can drop the pushups. The same muscles are worked during the handstands. I just saw a flashy new exercise of the decline diamond pushups and thought to add it.

Finally, I want to move the face pulls to the hardstand day, and do them after I do the handstand. What else can I do or do I need to do? Probably none more for now. I good pull-up type exercise would be beneficial but I don’t have a place with a horizontal bar at this time. I can hold off.

Finally, I can do my ab work . That’s a lighter impact. I was watching Dr. Mike Israetel discuss abs and he says they don’t need to be worked since the big compound movements work them, such as the squats but I would assume also the handstands. He’s more focused on weight training. He says if you really want to do them to pop, ideal is some sort of weighted ab machine. He mentioned a couple other things.

Pulling back and looking at the big picture, I won’t drop the Bulgarian squats or other squat type. It is my favorite but it is by far the most intense exercise from an energy perspective. The handstand uses far less energy in my opinion. Squats are the #1 most important exercise for good health to me.