You know the stereotype of the grumpy old man. Sometimes it fits me like a glove.
Take this muscle-building thing, for example. Last October I significantly upgraded my pathetic home gym with a multi-functional cable unit.
Once I got it put together, it gave me the ability to do many of the ideal exercises I’d been missing. My motivation skyrocketed—as did my workout intensity and time in the gym.
I was still training with the three-days-per-week schedule listed in Old Man Young Muscle, but I started adding exercises and sets.
So instead of mirroring the 35-minute workouts in that ebook, suddenly I was close to an hour each. But adding volume equals muscle growth, right?
Well, my wife began telling me I was looking stringy. WTF? You’re supposed to say “lean.” But she was right. Here’s a shot of me right after Christmas…
Son of a bitch, was that Joe Biden on a hunger strike? My arms looked stringier than they did when we shot the photos for OMYM at the end of last summer…
Was I just getting old? Were the cable exercises not as effective as the free-weight moves I was forced to use before?
After weeks of trying to figure out what was going on, I determined the cable exercises were fine. The problem: I’m old and getting older, so overtraining looms larger than ever as I sprint toward birthday #63.
Even a hardcore bodybuilder my age who has won the Mr. Universe, Doug Brignole, found that paring back his volume to four sets per muscle accelerated his growth significantly.
Of course, Doug has better genetics than I do—after all, he won the Mr. Universe—so maybe I needed even less training.
I made some adjustments, getting my workouts down to 40 minutes. To ease my mind, I conservatively added in a tried-and-true intensity tactic: X-Reps. Like Doug, I started growing again.
The lesson is clear: Overtraining is real—and a gain stopper as you get older. Don’t think adding volume is an automatic muscle builder. In some cases you can regress, even if you’re young…
That’s not good—unless you’re chasing the title of Mr. Puny-verse.
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Till next time, train hard—and smart—for BIG results.
Steve Holman
Former Editor in Chief, Iron Man Magazine
www.X-Rep.com
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