[Mybabysgotit]

Intetesting... I didnt know that but makes sense.

Is there anything I should take... IE- product name... or just vitamins by their lonesome (like vitamin D)? I take GNC mega men if that helps.

The only thing I take is fish oil and vitamin D (only because i'm low). Most of your vitamins you'll get plenty of through regular diet. When you get bloods again ask for a vitamin deficiency test (think it's only one extra tube) and see what your lacking.

 

[Reluctant Texan]

I do squats now without weight, but only because I stopped going to the gym.

It's still a good workout, but make sure you keep your form correct to avoid stress on your knees

 

[Longtime Hubby]

Free weights and machines, 3 to 4 days a week. Age 62. Been at this since December. Yes, seeing results in chest and arms.

 

[Mr.Married]

Only thing I would do different is that multi-vitamin. When you take that, a lot of those vitamins interact with one another, negatively impacting the efficacy. Also some are fat soluble like A, E and K, while others need to be taken on an empty stomach, etc. The bioavailability doesn't really work when they're all taken together.

So what does that look like? What should I be taking and when ?

 

[1994]

I've been an avid lifter for most of my life (51 currently), focusing mostly on strength, power and functional fitness. However, Degenerative Disc Disease keeps kicking my ass, so I've switched to hypertrophy training in the past few years. Lighter weight, more focus on "connection" and much higher rep range. I never really took that kind of working out seriously before and was a little uncomfortable with aesthetics as the goal, but the workouts themselves are intense if you do it right. I mostly follow a PPL split, three on and one off. My day off is my long run day. My goal is to do cardio following the workout, but I'm usually too spent by then. For the sets themselves, I usually do a series of three giant sets (four sets of four exercises in one superset, with a goal of 20 reps per exercise) with one compound lift for strength at the end (five reps of five sets of flat bench (push), deadlifts (pull) and squats (legs, obvo)).
I started following Ryan Humiston on youtube, and it's life-changing, for me at least.

https://www.youtube.com/@RyanHumiston

 

[Griswold]

Wow 1994. i'd have drop my weights to like 10lbs to do 80 reps of something. Or maybe 2 lbs! For my ab crunch machine I do sets of 20 reps. I feel that. Does the high rep give you more "cut" or "shred" or whatever one calls it? I know I've dropped about 14 lbs since lifting but I guess my body fat is still above 7 % - cause I don't look like Brad Pitt in TROY yet. I'm very happy with the strength and zero aches/pains. I even like making my wife snort laugh I when try to move my pecs like the Rock (spoiler alert : I can't move my pecs like the Rock. But they do move. A little).

 

[ccpowerslave]

If you want to get stronger in my opinion you should train as many ways as possible. So light with a lot of reps, heavy with almost no reps, up, down, and sideways. As many ways as you can think of to train the muscle. Before I went on this trip I was just doing sets of 2 on the bench with a pretty heavy weight for me I can maybe lift 4-5 times with a spotter. A couple days before that just a bunch of push ups.

 

[Griswold]

my exercise buddy (a woman!) weight trained long before I started. She used to tell me to do super slow reps...like count to 10 as raise and 10 as you lower. Stuff like that. Early on (pre pandemic) I would do that every once in a while. I stopped after we came back from shut down. Is there anything to that?

 

[1994]

my exercise buddy (a woman!) weight trained long before I started. She used to tell me to do super slow reps...like count to 10 as raise and 10 as you lower. Stuff like that. Early on (pre pandemic) I would do that every once in a while. I stopped after we came back from shut down. Is there anything to that?

Absolutely. Time Under Tension is key to strength and hypertrophy. I tend to do higher reps to get the same effect.

 

[1994]

Wow 1994. i'd have drop my weights to like 10lbs to do 80 reps of something. Or maybe 2 lbs! For my ab crunch machine I do sets of 20 reps. I feel that. Does the high rep give you more "cut" or "shred" or whatever one calls it? I know I've dropped about 14 lbs since lifting but I guess my body fat is still above 7 % - cause I don't look like Brad Pitt in TROY yet. I'm very happy with the strength and zero aches/pains. I even like making my wife snort laugh I when try to move my pecs like the Rock (spoiler alert : I can't move my pecs like the Rock. But they do move. A little).

LOL. Takes a heavy dose of humility. And I tend to break out the little pink Target weights near the end of a set. The goal is 20 reps, but failure is really what you want to go for. Actual muscle failure is something that a lot of guys think they’re doing (but really just often hitting an arbitrary number they pre-decided). Weight training requires you to be honest with yourself at all times. The number matters less than the effort. If you literally cannot do another rep, you’ll grow. As for being shredded, that has more to do with your diet than workout routine.

 

[Griswold]

oh I hit failure a lot. My goal is to be moving the max weight I can for 3 full sets. As I move up, I'll see "failure" in the 2d set, then the 3rd. eventually, I can finish all 3 sets comfortably at that weight. Then it's time to start on the next goal. I like this. But as small as I am, maybe i'll run out of goals? (thought I can't see me leg pressing 300 lbs. But maybe if I keep at it.... I will go back to the slot motion reps, maybe one rotation per month.