Do you gentleman in your 50s find you’re any more prone to injury With certain exercises in the high rep range (is sq, bench, DL)?
Higher reps definitely have a place but not in all exercises especially squats, calf raises,
wrist curls, dips, push-ups, pull-ups come to mind.
I think that many of the horrible injuries that I am reading about occur in lower rep
ranges. Correct? Which in my opinion have no place in bodybuilding. Higher reps,
especially squats for example, seem to elicit the nausea but not the injuries.
It is my opinion, that most injuries are likely occur during first few repetitions simply
because you are strongest at that point but . . . as long good form is maintained, you
become less likely to hurt yourself as you continue with the set, the second rep is less
dangerous than the first rep, the third rep is less dangerous than the second rep, and
so on. You become weaker, and as you near failure or at complete failure, you are not
able to produce the force necessary for injury to occur with good form. Of course it
is possible to hurt yourself in any rep; but in practice, most injuries occur during first
reps , and these injuries that occur during later reps, again, usually caused by using
poor form.