Changing training after 40
I will be turning 48 soon and was just wondering if you had to change anything in your training routine after 40 years of age? Did you have to lighten the weights or did you train as you always did?
Are you kidding? Surely you jest! Prepare for the storm, lad, ready thyself for famine, drought and destruction. Here comes the judge!
There are wise modifications to make as the years accrue: refraining from the last ultimate rep, resisting one-rep max training schemes, overtraining and abusing. I have always had the tendency — many ironheads do — to push it with all my might. That’s the fun of it, or it’s our obligation, or what works.
The injuries mount, chemistry changes and limitations guide us in new directions: lots of warming up, lighter weights, higher reps, altered exercise grooves, elimination of certain movements, wrapping grumpy joints and juggling routines according to daily capacity.
Other than that, nothing changes. We press on like madmen… Dave <<<Godspeed>>>
Posted on February 24th, 2010 in Aging Well by Dave Draper