thanks!! I only train, at most, 3 times a week. sometimes its only 2. I squat on mondays, deadlift on thursdays and bench/overhead press on sundays.
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I feel like this is the gift we get to give ourselves after decades of busting our butts and training stupidly hard. Don’t need nearly as big a dose of training to get the results we want.
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exactly! i spent years destroying myself in the gym while neglecting huge things like not enough protein, not enough sleep and drinking like a fish. I feel like i have those things pretty much dialed in now and as a result i can train with intensity but not nearly as often. I also don’t feel the need to train one rep max reps anymore. usually the lowest i’ll go is 3 reps, maybe two but they always have to be fast. if i feel myself starting to struggle and slow down, i stop. this has kept me from getting injured and also made my recovery faster. in the past, if i missed a one rep max attempt, i would be done for two weeks. my central nervous system would be depressed for a very long time. now i can recover faster even though i’m getting older.
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squats
-been pushing the beltless buffalo bar squats a bit. I would like to get up to 500lbs without a belt. I’ve been going really slow just to lower the chance of injury as much as possible. And to quote Rocky Balboa- I ain’t as young as springtime no more.
worked up to 450x2. still pretty easy but it’s easy until it isn’t.
backed off to three sets of 330x10 no belt or wraps.
leg press paused at bottom. worked up to 8 plates a side x 5
seated calf raises. started with a 25lb plate for 10 reps and added a plate until i reached 8 plates and then did a giant strip set removing a plate and doing as many reps as i can and then removing another plate with no rest.
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