I think you need to explore the concept of Minimum Effective Dosage. At your age, and long-term, it will be a more useful approach to your training.
I watched a couple of Rip's video shorts about old guys and tonnage, I want to make sure my understanding is correct.
I'm 71 yo. I usually do sets of triples for heavy work sets for squats except on a light day. Assuming the warm-up sets and reps are the same would Workout B provide equal or adequate stress with less tonnage than Workout A? Is that a sufficient reduction in tonnage or too much? Thanks
Workout A 300x3x3 (tonnage 2700)
Workout B 290x3, 300x2, 310x2 (tonnage 2090)
I think you need to explore the concept of Minimum Effective Dosage. At your age, and long-term, it will be a more useful approach to your training.
Thanks Rip
The Minimum Effective Dose of Training | Mark Rippetoe
I take it this is a process of trial and error where the dosage of training pushes strength numbers but is still recoverable in a reasonable time frame.