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Aging and training splits

Can you tell me how your training splits have changed when you went from 5 to 4 to 3 days a week?

An aging training synopsis: five days week till 60 years old, four days till 63 and three days a week since. I’m 65.

Training remained the same in format and was modified — condensed sensibly — to fit into reduced time frame. The scheme also varied in output and exercise designation to match needs, abilities and moods and urges and recuperation — body, mind, soul.

Always the basics (curls, presses, cables) tailored to suit my daily dress code (groove, range of motion, exercise continuity and intensity).

Always manage training muscle groups twice a week by overlapping movements efficiently.

Give me 90 minutes a workout these days with some aerobic and business on off days.

Lots of time invested and muscle development and know-how assist me big time… no small price to allow training redesign and reduction.

Works for me, a hard-working and stubborn mountain goat… and bomber

Go…Dave

Dave Draper - Dave Draper Posted on January 12th, 2008 in Aging Well by Dave Draper