Very interesting thread, it is so tough to find info for guys who are 40 +
I am 44 years old 90 kg bodyweight, have been training since I was 16. My best lifts are double body weight squat, 140kg bench, bodyweight press and DL 190kg for 3 reps. ( Snapped a ligament in my back deadlifting when I was 25 years old so never really reached my potential here.
Have found strongman the last few years and I love atlas stones and farmers walks. I can lift a 120kg atlas stone and bodyweight farmers walks. It is very difficult to get all these movements in over a week or even two.
I was doing FW and Back Squat week one and AS and FS week two on fridays with pushing on monday and other back work on wednesday.
At what age rip did you realize that you had to make changes ?
What I am finding now is that squatting after either farmers or atlas stones leaves me a bit fkd the next day, sometimes my sleep is also disturbed for days on end and I feel this is due to CNS fatigue. I normally go to failure on most movements but am starting to realize I should leave a bit in the tank.
I am thinking of switching to alternating upper body and lower body sessions, three days a week but on a lower body day only do one movement ie atlas stones then five days later do back squats instead of both in the same session.
Maybe I'm being a pussy doing this but I think it could be worth an experiment to see how it goes, I would we doing some form of lower body work every five days, every ten days or so I would be squatting and every ten days I would be farmers walk or atlas stones.
I would also pull and push in one plane of movement every five days instead of going both planes in the same session once a week.
Rip your point about not doing the maximum of what you can tolerate but less than that has inspired me to try this.
Is 44 to young to be making these changes do you think ?
Really interested to keep this thread going and informative...