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Originally Posted by
Bill Been
At the risk of seeming to be a d!ckish Old Guy, you've started thinking of yourself as "older" - at 41 - waaaaay too early. You're an in-shape, healthy young guy with a sporting endurance background. Barring illness, you don't face the blunted hormonal responses to training actual older guys do, and you're not simultaneously fighting that and sarcopenia. You've not entered the program at age 50 as a completely de trained fat body with Metabolic Syndrome whose gut tries to prevent him reaching down to the bar - which is common here. You've posted your (substantial) progress elsewhere, I'd just like to help your realize you're not actually a fragile Old Guy, the program is supposed to be hard, it's supposed to scare you a little, the last couple reps are supposed to challenge your form, and you're supposed to Do The Program until you actually can't - not until you suspect* you can't.
* I'm liking italics quite a lot today.