Do you still lift as heavy as you can?
My concern is this: Do you still try to lift as heavy a weight as you can with each set? I’m very strong, but sometimes I feel that if I don’t keep lifting heavier and heavier weights my physique will get smaller. If you are not training pretty much with the weights that you did when you were competing, does this bother you mentally at all?
I lift to the best of my ability, which diminishes as age becomes our companion. Let’s be real. However, I train as hard today, if not harder, as I did in the years in the past. Pressing is down due to injuries and time, but the squats and deads are super. And though I give up strength here and there, my engaged muscle intensity today is greater… by will and focus and care and need and desire.
I count on set 3,4 and 5 to do the real muscle-building overload. I’m a volume trainer as compared to a low-set HIT trainer — whatever! I need sets and reps to guide me as I determine form and output and intensity.
Don’t let the fears or doubts of change prevent you from discovering likable and productive methods of training. There’s fun down those open roads.
You might want to pick up my book, “Brother Iron Sister Steel,” about half price for a slightly scuffed copy — fun straight talk about everything I know, routines, nutritional simplicity, tips, hints, motivation — very popular.
Blast it, by God… DD
Dave Draper - Dave Draper Posted on October 30th, 2007 in Aging Well by Dave Draper