Has your training changed as you get older?

**Admin** · 30-03-2014 03:43 PM

due to injuries? or the body not being able to take the strain anymore

**Shrek** · 30-03-2014 03:50 PM

No but it will soon start too. No more low rep stuff for me.

**Timeah** · 30-03-2014 04:06 PM

A little. Frequency is about to go up. Or back up... to squatting 2 and 3 times a week, deadlifting twice and benching 3-4 times a week. Most of my injuries have actually come from doing those things only once per week. Especially squats. I tend to "forget" how to do it after 5 or 6 days LOL.

Tim.

**Rugby88** · 30-03-2014 04:07 PM

Trained for 12 years now and nothing has really changed to be honest....cant see if changing anytime soon....I always chop and change what sorta of exercises I do but the core of my workouts remain the same...

**spartacus** · 30-03-2014 04:10 PM

I train much better now at older age.

less heavy sessions, more moderate sessions.

**Hombre** · 31-03-2014 02:44 PM

I've resolved to listen to my body better and back off a bit when the ageing joints start giving me grief, rather than the "she'll be right" approach. On my second back off week now and feel the better for it. Will go back in normal next week but if some exercise(s) start flaring them up again, they will be replaced altogether or altered weight wise and either increase volume or intensity.

**Jungnaut** · 31-03-2014 03:00 PM

Yes, I've just started deloading every month, which I have never done before and my body is thanking me for it.

**El Testicle** · 31-03-2014 03:48 PM

Changed for better and worse..

Better as in I no longer make myself go every single damn day... i.e. over-training when I should be resting.

Worse as in I can no longer do some of the exercises I once excelled at due to wearing down / injury e.g. weighted dips, skull crushers...

**morgan000** · 31-03-2014 07:30 PM

I don't do the hardcore exercises religiously anymore. Like the deadlifts, squats and bench. I still do them but not week in week out. I do em as a functional thing and to make sure the strength is still there but now I like doing supersets, varying reps and exercises and so on.