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Q: You’ve said that the way you train now is because you’re older. I totally agree: limit the risk and build/maintain muscle without devoting tons of time to your workouts. With your experience and what you’ve learned, would you still train like you do now if you were in your 20s or 30s?
A: Yes and no. I would probably use my current limited-volume STX workout for each muscle once a week; BUT… [Read more…]
I’ve been training for almost 50 years, and it’s been a chore building muscle. You’ve heard of skeletons in your closet? Mine are in my family tree… [Read more…]
You want the biggest mass-building bang from each set. That’s efficiency of effort…
It’s the name of the muscle-size game for drug-free bodybuilders, especially if you’re older—like me at age 64… [Read more…]
Hypertrophy researcher Chris Beardsley has said that your nervous system gets less efficient with each set you perform through your workout… [Read more…]
Lots of Arnold pressing demos on Instagram these days, which is good and bad… [Read more…]
You may get down on yourself when you look around the Internet. All the big, buff guys and gals seem to be taunting you…
They show you their workout and diet “secrets,” which don’t do jack for you. That’s because they fail to mention the “secret sauce”… [Read more…]
I’ve been discussing changing exercises from time to time—even workout to workout. It can fuel hypertrophy due to variation on fiber recruitment, not to mention boredom relief; however… [Read more…]
Q: I commend you on your Positions-of-Flexion training methodology. What a logical way to completely work each muscle. It’s helped me improve my muscle size and physique considerably at age 56. Sometimes I do all positions at each workout, while other times I’ll use the split-positions approach [in Old Man Young Muscle 2]. Question: Do you switch up your exercises a lot, or do you have a core group that you always use? [Read more…]
Q: In the Old Man Young Muscle workout, you show 10-second rests between some sets. Do you still recommend that? Do you use 10-second rests in your current workouts?
A: In a recent newsletter, I mentioned resting 10 seconds after the last set of an exercise and continuing to rep out when you want a volume boost for lagging muscles… [Read more…]
Q: Old Man Young Muscle has been incredibly helpful in building more size at age 56. Thank you. I am having some trouble with a few muscles, like my triceps. Should I add more sets? You mention volume increases as a hypertrophy booster in Chapter 8 with a chest example. Should I follow that volume-increase recipe for triceps too? [Read more…]
