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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…]
Hypertrophy researcher Chris Beardsley has said that your nervous system gets less efficient with each set you perform through your workout… [Read more…]
You may have seen some bodybuilders say to stop analyzing your workouts—just do plenty of sets on the big exercises, and you’ll grow.
That may work if you’re young and/or on anabolic drugs. But as you age, you must get more analytical to continue making progress as well as avoid injury… [Read more…]
Yesterday I talked about training to failure and how it can have a negative effect on your nervous system, making each set after the first less efficient at stimulating mass.
A hammered nervous system doesn’t allow enough “juice” to engage the high-threshold motor units, which control the fast-twitch growth fibers.
Solution: [Read more…]
