Shock & Awe... -

01-19-20 05:11 PM - Post#892891

About a month ago, I was at the gym and thinking… I’ve been coming here like 4 years and while I look “ok” compared to most people my age (58), I have not really made any real progress. Still using about the same weight on each exercise. I chalked this up to many factors but mainly age. From everything I’ve read, I’m way past my prime for making any real gains. Lower testosterone because of age, slower recovery periods because of age, age, age that… I sort of accepted that as fact. Then I was reading an old article regarding “Giant sets”, and that the guys doing them said they experienced quicker recovery periods.

A light went off in my head, what if I could find a way to get my body to behave the way it did when I was much younger…. I came up with my “Shock and Awe” method…. I was going to kick my body in the ass and make it behave like it was much younger.

3 weeks in and I’d say yes, you can make an old body behave like it’s much younger. I’m making gains… real gains, like when you just start lifting and it seems you keep adding weight every workout. In 3 weeks my seated press has gone up 200%... as a baseline, I used 80 lbs each side of the seated press machine. I could only get 3 reps in, and that 3rd was a real struggle…. I can now do 8/9 reps. I used to use 140 on pec deck x 8. Today I did 165 and think I could have gone higher.

It’s sort of a complicated system, it’s not a “static” routine. I keep changing everything each workout, rest times, reps, drop sets, giants, Big sets with static holds. I have been keeping a detailed log of what I’ve been doing if anyone wants to give it a try.