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09-03-21 12:35 PM - Post#913062
Maybe I'm biased because, to bring this thread back around, I'm pivoting myself back to a foundation of body weight mastery and ditching the heavy weights. It's a pivot that I've seen some older men make. Whenever I've met an older active man who didn't have a history of pain replete with surgeries and injuries I usually ask them what they do. Without fail - they ditched the weights in their 30's or 40's and got into body weight fitness. Those guys tend to be very spry and active into their 50's and 60's and beyond. Now, not that it can't be done, I compare that to the men I've met who kept with weights and didn't know when to hang it up or pivot - they usually had several surgeries and injuries and couldn't perform basic life tasks without pain. They were plagued with life altering restrictions, can't lift arms over their head, back pain, etc.
As of late, I tend to find myself gravitating towards an extremely easy and daily training. Something that might be seen as replicating mild manual labor, if you know what I mean.
Something along the lines of, say, 100 “squinges” (one goblet squat followed by a goat bag swing), 100 pushes, 100 pulls, 10 minutes of crawling and 10 minutes of loaded carries. Plus loooooooong daily walks in the woods.
Low weights, possibly low tempo, low reps and a ton of extremely easy sets done throughout the day.
I don’t know why, but this appeals to me in a very BIG way.
"I think we often spend too much time focusing on max fitness
and not nearly enough on maintaining our minimums.
It seems we need to think sustainable rather than obtainable.
Meaning whatever we do today, we can do it again tomorrow.
Never taking so much from ourselves that we can't."
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