I train legs almost daily, but usually only a couple sets and never to failure.
Now *that* really surprises me! Although I suspect that practically speaking it`s not that different from all the work my legs get during the hours of daily chores (which can get me as sore as a maxed-out lifting session, fair bit of to-failure work some times since I`m not using a Bobcat/etc.).
Though if I don`t train to failure when I *do* exercise (every 3 weeks for upper legs has turned out best for me although I can go four without any real dowside), I lose size/strength after about 5-6 weeks. Deconditioning goes faster for my other muscle groups since they don`t get used as much all the time.
Plateaus happen..Eventually, gains inevitably slow down.. [Menno].. says hes pretty well maxed out his genetics, gaining less than 1lb of muscle per year..
Yeah, otherwise some guys would be benching skyscrapers
I`d sure *expect him to be maxed out by now..I can`t imagine anybody taking more than ~5 years unless they`re doing something really wrong (as I sure did for a long, long time
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I still thing i have a ways to go before getting to that point.
I sometimes forget that I`ve been doing this for decades longer and that unlike most I`m merely tweaking details while primarily working at not suffering age-related decline.
Related- How`s your MMC coming along?
The training is a bit different now with limited equipment..
No doubt! I would never be able to maintain my normal condition if I had to train elsewhere/with different stuff for long.
Menno himself trains 7 days a week, all full body. But that doesn`t mean squatting to failure 7 days a week. A couple days could be squats, another couple days might be RDL’s, another leg extrnsions, etc. You could be varying rep ranges on squat days, and possibly intensity levels as you get more advanced...
OK, but I`d be a little surprised if he continues to train that way into his elderly years. But hey, somebody somewhere probably does fine with any approach you can think of...look at the stuff Jack Lalane was still doing and the way Bill Pearl continued to train!
He even recommends bloodflow reatriction training for more advanced trainees..
That`s getting a lot of attention in some quarters these days.
Balanced properly, i actually rarely feel very sore from his workouts. The volume per body part per session isnt high(it is over the course of the training week, though), we dont lift to failure, and getting blood into the muscle 4-5 days a week actually seems to help with recovery.
OK, as long as you`re getting the results you want, that`s all that really counts.
Are you aiming at any specific goal/timeframe to achieve it?
I`m still working on those ~3lbs of bodyfat I`d like to lose, maybe halfway there after...what?...three or so years maybe. As I said, just fine-tuning while working to not lose any size/strength/endurance as I age.
And I *still* haven`t started doing Planks! I keep thinking how you convinced me I probably should (only to quit doing them yourself) and it still sounds right, but I just haven`t done `em! By the time I get to my Core work at the end of the workouts, which take [freakin`] *forever* since I take so long between sets, I`m just so focused on *getting done already* that I don`t want to add anything, much less figure out how to go about something new. Or at least, well...that`s my excuse
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