Q: At 52, Old Man Young Muscle workout has been a godsend for me. I’m bigger and stronger, and all of my aches and pains from the ego lifting I did in my youth are almost completely gone. My question is, I’m to the point where I get 25 reps on free-hand sissy squats. Do you use a weight vest to increase resistance? What do you suggest?
A: As you can see from the photo of Jonathan, holding a weight plate is a good way to go; although a weighted vest would be more comfortable if you want to spring for that. Just don’t wear it around any giant magnets…
I hold a PowerBlock dumbbell on my chest, freehand gripping a doorway chinning bar to maintain balance and position.
If you’re in a commercial gym, a Tom Platz favorite was using the hack machine, pulling the hips off the pad…
Platz was a big proponent of sissy squats and emphasizing the stretch on many exercises to the point of brutality—like on leg extensions where he would do bottom-range partials, a.k.a. X-Reps. He did know how to grow quads…
With that kind of development, The Quad Father had good reason to drop his pants at various gatherings.
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