Thanks for the awesome advice Fadi, much appreciated! I do like the strength aspect but size is also important to me and i do train with a fairly heavy volume most sessions ( 6-7 exercises ) with either the squat or the deadlift at higher weight low reps as the main lift in any session. This is the second injury i have sustained doing deadlifts even though its only a minor one, i dont want to let it mentally change my attitude towards the lift but it still will be in the back of my mind.
Knoted, i am going RAAF mate so 1rtu instead of kapooka, but still similar to kapooka in the lack of free time to train and lack of ability to control diet and nutrition, i have prepared myself mentally for this and like you said will just have to take it on the chin and resume at employment training once i have free time again and can control my nutrition ( 5-6 meals a day ) again. I do push ups, chins, situps, dips, burpees now once or twice a week now usually after a run on cardio days really just to keep myself pretty fit with them, ive done the 100 burpee challenge in 10:45 and can smash out 50 push ups in a row no dramas so i havent really focused to much on this stuff just mainly try to maintain the level of fitness rather than increase it.
My main concern was to stop lifting now before recruit training and just smash this sort of stuff a lot more like i will be doing down there at Wagga like bodyweight stuff and cardio etc. I have the same kind of mindset as you said though about just not worrying to much and just doing what i can for about 6 months and just resume fully when i can, would probably be one less thing to worry about down there at recruits cause im sure there will be lots of other things to worry about instead. Just would be nice to keep the size if possible which according to Fadi in his post if im reading it correctly means as long as im training and stimulating the muscles this shouldnt be a problem, heavy weights or not...
Untouchable, i do 20 rep squats once a week now, im up to 95kg for 20 reps at the moment. That feels about the max i can go at the moment to keep form strict. I normally do 20 reppers once a week on a monday for example and PPP for squats on a friday, deadlifts in between on a Wednesday.