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Wednesday, May 5. 2021

Should You Be Lifting Heavy Weights After 50?


Of course people should. It might be the best way to maintain sturdy bone and muscle while time, nature, and entropy are doing their best to destroy you.


Should You Be Lifting Heavy Weights After 50?


By heavy weights, we refer mainly to the basic powerlifts (barbell squat, deads, bench press, dumbell row, overhead press), plus pullups/pulldowns.


Also,  How To Build Muscle Mass After 50

Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss in Physical Fitness at 14:19 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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Who exactly is the "we" you refer to? Is it the same "we" Bird Dog constantly refers to in his posts about working out? It's amazing how much the two of you sound alike and even post alike.
#1 Frp on 2019-06-27 14:12 (Reply)
As editor dog, I amend/adjust post topics.
#2 BD on 2019-06-27 14:32 (Reply)
59 and started working on a farm this year... throwing 100# bags of dirt, wheeling barrows all over, mowingmowingmowing... getting "farm strong" and tan. No discipline for working out and exercise, but much prefer showering after work rather than prior...
#3 The Distributist (Link) on 2019-06-27 21:59 (Reply)
"By heavy weights, we refer mainly to the basic powerlifts (barbell squat, deads, bench press, dumbell row, overhead press), plus pullups/pulldowns."

Well, these are exercises that can be used to lift heavy weights. You have to use something other than 5-lb dumbbells when doing them, though.

An invaluable resource, as I've mentioned before, is: The Barbell Prescription: Strength Training for Life After 40
#4 RJP on 2019-10-21 00:23 (Reply)
After 50?! What kind of coddled life has been lived to make weight training (work) challenging post ones 50th birthday?
#5 DblTap on 2021-05-06 11:54 (Reply)
It is a rare line of work that prepares one for a 405 deadlift. Conversely, it is a rare line of work that is not improved by developing a 405 deadlift.

Weight training is meant to improve performance at work, not the other way around.
#5.1 RJP on 2021-05-06 18:42 (Reply)
My local rec center reopened Monday. We have to make 1-hour reservations online so I snagged the first one. I do a 2-set circuit of 8 cable machines and found that I was able to do ~75% of the weight and reps from a year ago, pre-shutdown. And I was only a bit sore the day after. It felt so good to get back in the gym again, even when wearing the damned mandatory mask.
#6 CapitalistRoader on 2021-05-06 15:13 (Reply)
55 here, started at the gym in early December. I do weight training and cardio on alternate days.

After just five months, everything just feels better.
#7 John on 2021-05-11 17:45 (Reply)

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