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Due to age, injury or whatever your reason was.
I turned 36 this year. And after 21 years (I think the longest I've ever taken off was 3 or 4 weeks in Jan of 2006...other than that, a week after a contest is about it) of consistently beating the hell out of my body, I see the need to re-evaluate the way I've been training.
I've always been an advocate and practitioner of the Yates/Mentzer style of training because it made the most sense to me.
But over the last couple of years, the injuries are piling up and it is taking longer and longer to heal when something is injured. I think it's time for me to pull away from the "one set to failure" approach and move more toward a volume approach. The problem is, I really don't know where to start.
I feel like a fish out of water. With High Intensity, I clearly knew when I was done, it was simple...the muscle would not contract any further and couldn't support a negative.
Easy, right?
But after 2 decades of training that way, any other approach feels like a vegan must feel when the only thing to eat is a piece of steak!
What I'm hoping for here is input form other members that might have experienced the same things that I've experienced and made the switch. How much volume is enough? Too much? When are you done with a set? An exercise?
On the surface, these look (even to me) like stupid, elementary questions...but I'm completely realigning my paradigm, and it's the least bit daunting a task.
I turned 36 this year. And after 21 years (I think the longest I've ever taken off was 3 or 4 weeks in Jan of 2006...other than that, a week after a contest is about it) of consistently beating the hell out of my body, I see the need to re-evaluate the way I've been training.
I've always been an advocate and practitioner of the Yates/Mentzer style of training because it made the most sense to me.
But over the last couple of years, the injuries are piling up and it is taking longer and longer to heal when something is injured. I think it's time for me to pull away from the "one set to failure" approach and move more toward a volume approach. The problem is, I really don't know where to start.
I feel like a fish out of water. With High Intensity, I clearly knew when I was done, it was simple...the muscle would not contract any further and couldn't support a negative.
Easy, right?
But after 2 decades of training that way, any other approach feels like a vegan must feel when the only thing to eat is a piece of steak!
What I'm hoping for here is input form other members that might have experienced the same things that I've experienced and made the switch. How much volume is enough? Too much? When are you done with a set? An exercise?
On the surface, these look (even to me) like stupid, elementary questions...but I'm completely realigning my paradigm, and it's the least bit daunting a task.