Personaly story, hoping you can make head or tails of it or come up with an idea:
A) at 17, traditional body-building stuff felt well, by that I mean doing one composite and one isolation exercise for every major muscle group.
B) at 35+ I learned about these new powerlifting oriented trends, squat-and-deadlift, SS, SL 5x5, and it felt really bad, my whole body felt stiff and inflamed.
It is probably hard on the joints, and one needs to take more care about doing it gradually and make sure about correct form. A) was better because those exercises are simply less dangerous, if you e.g. do dips and cable extensions for triceps, you rarely if even get any problems even if you are impatient like me and not warm up, take too much weight, use momentum, cheat using shoulders, not stretch afterwards etc. at least with a 17 years old body and not doing it long enough to use massive weights (say, unweighted dips and cable extensions with 30-40 kg) it was safe enough to be an impatient fool at it. And all this made me feel the pump, which has little to do with hypertrophy, but it is a fast dopamine reward and motivating.
Doing the powerlifting stuff at 35 is the opposite, you must be very careful, you have to do it absolutely right and not be impatient at it, and you (not at the beginner level before joints and stabilizing muscles catch up to major muscles) don’t get the instant reward of the pump. So basically you go there for weeks and do it and nothing really happens. No reward. So every time I started this I quit after 3-4 weeks because it was just work, work, no reward.
The reason I did not go back to the original kind is twofold, I was too fat to see the pump and get the instant reward, and ultimately being old (yes, 35 can feel old if you are not fit in the sense of flexibility and cardio and all), stiff, groaning when getting up from sitting on the floor and knees cracking… at this point I just did not feel being a stronger and stiffer mofo does me any good. I felt immobilized in my body.
So at this point I wanted a completely different me. A lithe, limber, fast, anti-gravity me who jumps around a sandbag punching (or jumps around the volleyball court, you get the idea) light a ligthweight Ricochet Rabbit, feeling young and full of energy and flexibility. This part of the reason why I looked int actual sports—plus the reasons explained in the article.
Don’t do squats. back squat...it’s one of the most dangerous exercises for your low back, hips, and knees, even when done with perfect form. Check this out. Id repurpose any leftover bars and weights as a barbell and dumbells (or kettlebells). I haven’t checked if that is safe, but I assume it is. If anyone knows better, please chime in.
Personaly story, hoping you can make head or tails of it or come up with an idea:
A) at 17, traditional body-building stuff felt well, by that I mean doing one composite and one isolation exercise for every major muscle group.
B) at 35+ I learned about these new powerlifting oriented trends, squat-and-deadlift, SS, SL 5x5, and it felt really bad, my whole body felt stiff and inflamed.
It is probably hard on the joints, and one needs to take more care about doing it gradually and make sure about correct form. A) was better because those exercises are simply less dangerous, if you e.g. do dips and cable extensions for triceps, you rarely if even get any problems even if you are impatient like me and not warm up, take too much weight, use momentum, cheat using shoulders, not stretch afterwards etc. at least with a 17 years old body and not doing it long enough to use massive weights (say, unweighted dips and cable extensions with 30-40 kg) it was safe enough to be an impatient fool at it. And all this made me feel the pump, which has little to do with hypertrophy, but it is a fast dopamine reward and motivating.
Doing the powerlifting stuff at 35 is the opposite, you must be very careful, you have to do it absolutely right and not be impatient at it, and you (not at the beginner level before joints and stabilizing muscles catch up to major muscles) don’t get the instant reward of the pump. So basically you go there for weeks and do it and nothing really happens. No reward. So every time I started this I quit after 3-4 weeks because it was just work, work, no reward.
The reason I did not go back to the original kind is twofold, I was too fat to see the pump and get the instant reward, and ultimately being old (yes, 35 can feel old if you are not fit in the sense of flexibility and cardio and all), stiff, groaning when getting up from sitting on the floor and knees cracking… at this point I just did not feel being a stronger and stiffer mofo does me any good. I felt immobilized in my body.
So at this point I wanted a completely different me. A lithe, limber, fast, anti-gravity me who jumps around a sandbag punching (or jumps around the volleyball court, you get the idea) light a ligthweight Ricochet Rabbit, feeling young and full of energy and flexibility. This part of the reason why I looked int actual sports—plus the reasons explained in the article.
Does this make any sort of sense?
Don’t do squats. back squat...it’s one of the most dangerous exercises for your low back, hips, and knees, even when done with perfect form. Check this out. Id repurpose any leftover bars and weights as a barbell and dumbells (or kettlebells). I haven’t checked if that is safe, but I assume it is. If anyone knows better, please chime in.