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Drop the high reps and endless volume for four to six heavy reps, with at least three rest days a week, and the first month feels like getting away with something. For years you buried yourself under a fatigue that never fully cleared. Every session started a little tired. Every set performed on a muscle still repairing the last beating. Your strongest fibres, the fast-twitch ones carrying nearly all the growth potential, are the first to switch off when you're run down, so you were barely reaching them at all. Take the volume away, give the body real time to recover, and that fatigue finally lifts. The fibres that were hiding come back online. The weights jump. You walk in fresh and walk out stronger, week after week, and assume it's a fluke that will surely end soon. It doesn't end. It feels like a honeymoon because it is one. You spent years married to the fatigue and mistook it for the work.

Drop the high reps and endless volume for four to six heavy reps, with at least three rest days a week, and the first month feels like getting away with something. For years you buried yourself under a fatigue that never fully cleared. Every session started a little tired. Every set performed on a muscle still repairing the last beating. Your strongest fibres, the fast-twitch ones carrying nearly all the growth potential, are the first to switch off when you're run down, so you were barely reaching them at all. Take the volume away, give the body real time to recover, and that fatigue finally lifts. The fibres that were hiding come back online. The weights jump. You walk in fresh and walk out stronger, week after week, and assume it's a fluke that will surely end soon. It doesn't end. It feels like a honeymoon because it is one. You spent years married to the fatigue and mistook it for the work.

Sama Hoole

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Rep 7 is the weight telling you it was too light. Rep 10 is you agreeing. Rep 12 is the hypertrophy range, apparently. Rep 15 is cardio. Rep 20 is a hobby. Rep 30 is a cry for help with a dumbbell in it. The muscle only grows on the reps where the bar slows against your will. A heavy set of 5 is 5 of those. A set of 20 is 15 you do to earn 5. You have been paying a 300% tax on your growth reps and calling it volume. Stop at 6. Rest. Go again.

Rep 7 is the weight telling you it was too light. Rep 10 is you agreeing. Rep 12 is the hypertrophy range, apparently. Rep 15 is cardio. Rep 20 is a hobby. Rep 30 is a cry for help with a dumbbell in it. The muscle only grows on the reps where the bar slows against your will. A heavy set of 5 is 5 of those. A set of 20 is 15 you do to earn 5. You have been paying a 300% tax on your growth reps and calling it volume. Stop at 6. Rest. Go again.

Sama Hoole

11,250 Aufrufe • vor 6 Tagen

High reps do nothing special for muscle growth. People want them to, because high reps feel like work. But every reason given for their magic falls apart on contact. "Better pump." The pump is blood and fluid, gone within the hour. A sensation, never a stimulus. It builds nothing. "More time under tension." More time, yes, under less tension, because the weight had to be lighter. Time never drove growth. Tension does. "More metabolic stress." Never convincingly shown to build muscle alone. They infused lactate into training humans and the signal did not move. "The burn." Just metabolites pooling. It tells you the muscle is working to fuel itself, not that it is growing one bit. "More fibre recruitment." Only in the last few reps near failure. You grind fifteen reps for the handful a heavy five hands you instantly. "Kinder to the joints." Sometimes, less load per rep. But far more reps means more grinding under fatigue, and its own strain injuries. Strip it back and high reps grow muscle the same way low reps do: hard reps near failure, generating tension. They just cost far more work and fatigue to get there. Nothing special. Just longer, sweatier, and more tiring for the same result.

High reps do nothing special for muscle growth. People want them to, because high reps feel like work. But every reason given for their magic falls apart on contact. "Better pump." The pump is blood and fluid, gone within the hour. A sensation, never a stimulus. It builds nothing. "More time under tension." More time, yes, under less tension, because the weight had to be lighter. Time never drove growth. Tension does. "More metabolic stress." Never convincingly shown to build muscle alone. They infused lactate into training humans and the signal did not move. "The burn." Just metabolites pooling. It tells you the muscle is working to fuel itself, not that it is growing one bit. "More fibre recruitment." Only in the last few reps near failure. You grind fifteen reps for the handful a heavy five hands you instantly. "Kinder to the joints." Sometimes, less load per rep. But far more reps means more grinding under fatigue, and its own strain injuries. Strip it back and high reps grow muscle the same way low reps do: hard reps near failure, generating tension. They just cost far more work and fatigue to get there. Nothing special. Just longer, sweatier, and more tiring for the same result.

Sama Hoole

29,170 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

Training a muscle 2-3 times a week in the 4-6 rep range is simply the most effective way to make it grow. - You're minimising fatigue (caused by volume) - Which allows you to maximise the growth stimulus (the last 5 reps from failure) - And recover fast enough to train the muscle in a fresh state in the same week (adding to the growth stimulus) Can you build muscle while ignoring this and just going for the pump? Sure, but it pays to have the right programming if you're not settling for mediocrity.

Training a muscle 2-3 times a week in the 4-6 rep range is simply the most effective way to make it grow. - You're minimising fatigue (caused by volume) - Which allows you to maximise the growth stimulus (the last 5 reps from failure) - And recover fast enough to train the muscle in a fresh state in the same week (adding to the growth stimulus) Can you build muscle while ignoring this and just going for the pump? Sure, but it pays to have the right programming if you're not settling for mediocrity.

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23,982 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten

What people think 8-12 reps does: - Hits the magic "hypertrophy sweet spot" - Maximises growth through ideal time under tension - Builds more than heavy low reps ever could - Is the scientifically optimal range What 8-12 reps actually does: - Buries the few stimulating reps under a pile of easy ones - Forces a lighter weight, so less tension where it counts - Generates far more fatigue for the same growth - Makes progress harder to track, since "add a rep" is fuzzier than "add a kilo" - Quietly trains you to avoid weights heavy enough to test yourself The growth happens in the last few hard reps near failure. Heavy 4-6 gives you those immediately, with none of the padding. 8-12 isn't useless. It's just the long way round to less.

What people think 8-12 reps does: - Hits the magic "hypertrophy sweet spot" - Maximises growth through ideal time under tension - Builds more than heavy low reps ever could - Is the scientifically optimal range What 8-12 reps actually does: - Buries the few stimulating reps under a pile of easy ones - Forces a lighter weight, so less tension where it counts - Generates far more fatigue for the same growth - Makes progress harder to track, since "add a rep" is fuzzier than "add a kilo" - Quietly trains you to avoid weights heavy enough to test yourself The growth happens in the last few hard reps near failure. Heavy 4-6 gives you those immediately, with none of the padding. 8-12 isn't useless. It's just the long way round to less.

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Low reps feel wrong to almost everyone, and here is why. You aren't wrecked afterwards. You finish the set, rest three minutes, walk out fine. No huge pump. No burn. No soaked shirt. Nothing sore in the morning. Your brain reads all of that as one thing: didn't work hard enough. But every rep loaded the muscle with maximum tension and left almost no mess behind. Tension is what builds the muscle. The burn and the ache are just fatigue, and fatigue was never the thing that grew you. You were taught to treat suffering as proof of work. It isn't. It never was. Somebody sold you the wreckage because the wreckage is what kept you buying. You don't grow from surviving the session. You grow from the load.

Low reps feel wrong to almost everyone, and here is why. You aren't wrecked afterwards. You finish the set, rest three minutes, walk out fine. No huge pump. No burn. No soaked shirt. Nothing sore in the morning. Your brain reads all of that as one thing: didn't work hard enough. But every rep loaded the muscle with maximum tension and left almost no mess behind. Tension is what builds the muscle. The burn and the ache are just fatigue, and fatigue was never the thing that grew you. You were taught to treat suffering as proof of work. It isn't. It never was. Somebody sold you the wreckage because the wreckage is what kept you buying. You don't grow from surviving the session. You grow from the load.

Sama Hoole

34,695 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

The most unsettling thing about training properly is how little it hurts. You do your handful of heavy sets. Each is genuinely hard for the few reps it lasts, and then it is over. You rack the weight, rest a full few minutes, do it again. Forty minutes later you are walking out breathing normally, barely damp, entirely intact. And the brain panics. That was too easy. Where was the suffering. Where was the two-hour grind, the pool of sweat, the crawl to the car, the soreness that used to reassure you the session counted. Surely something this comfortable cannot be working. This is the exact feeling that keeps people trapped in junk volume for years. It is rarely bad information that holds them there. It is the discomfort of a productive session that stubbornly refuses to feel productive. So they add sets to buy back the suffering, because the suffering felt like proof. The weights are the proof. They went up again this week, quietly, while you were busy missing the pain. The muscle does not grow from how hard the session felt. It has never once asked how you felt about it.

The most unsettling thing about training properly is how little it hurts. You do your handful of heavy sets. Each is genuinely hard for the few reps it lasts, and then it is over. You rack the weight, rest a full few minutes, do it again. Forty minutes later you are walking out breathing normally, barely damp, entirely intact. And the brain panics. That was too easy. Where was the suffering. Where was the two-hour grind, the pool of sweat, the crawl to the car, the soreness that used to reassure you the session counted. Surely something this comfortable cannot be working. This is the exact feeling that keeps people trapped in junk volume for years. It is rarely bad information that holds them there. It is the discomfort of a productive session that stubbornly refuses to feel productive. So they add sets to buy back the suffering, because the suffering felt like proof. The weights are the proof. They went up again this week, quietly, while you were busy missing the pain. The muscle does not grow from how hard the session felt. It has never once asked how you felt about it.

Sama Hoole

43,098 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

$Somewhere around sixty you get handed a new set of instructions. Lift lighter. Keep the reps high. Do not tax yourself too much. Put the saved effort into cardio. It is the exact reverse of what an ageing body needs, and the people handing it out have the mechanism sitting right in front of them. Recovery gets worse with age. Nobody argues with that. The older body clears fatigue more slowly, repairs more slowly, and tolerates far less accumulated work before progress stops entirely. Every GP, every physio, every trainer will nod along to that sentence. Then watch what gets prescribed on the back of it. High reps. Long burning sets. Circuits. Three sessions of cardio stacked on top. A protocol whose main product is fatigue, given to the person with the least capacity left to absorb any. They identified a recovery problem and prescribed more recovery cost. The answer runs the other way and it is not complicated. If your recovery budget has shrunk, you spend it on whatever returns the most growth per unit of fatigue, and that is a heavy set of five. Four to six reps, a handful of lifts, three minutes between sets, done inside the hour. Nearly every rep is a growth rep. Almost nothing goes on the burning, the sweating and the gasping, which build nothing at all and then bill you for four days. Twenty-five reps taken to failure is a fortnight of fatigue for a fraction of the stimulus. That is not the cautious option for a sixty-five-year-old. It is the most reckless thing on the timetable. Now the part that actually matters. Ageing is not one process. It is a list. Muscle wastes. Bone thins. Tendon softens. The fast fibres that catch you when the pavement arrives early vanish first while the slow ones sit there in perfect health. Motor units drop out. The nervous system stops asking for full effort because nothing has demanded full effort in fifteen years. Read that list back and tell me what heavy resistance training does. It builds muscle. It loads bone, which is the only language bone speaks. It stiffens tendon. It recruits the fast fibres, because that is what heavy means physiologically and there is no other route in. It forces the nervous system to ask for everything again. Every item on the list of what ageing takes is on the list of what a heavy set gives back. Nothing else on earth does that. Not a walk, not a class, not a pill, not twenty minutes on a machine with the paper open. You were told to go gently because somebody quietly decided you were finishing. Go heavy, because you are not.$

Somewhere around sixty you get handed a new set of instructions. Lift lighter. Keep the reps high. Do not tax yourself too much. Put the saved effort into cardio. It is the exact reverse of what an ageing body needs, and the people handing it out have the mechanism sitting right in front of them. Recovery gets worse with age. Nobody argues with that. The older body clears fatigue more slowly, repairs more slowly, and tolerates far less accumulated work before progress stops entirely. Every GP, every physio, every trainer will nod along to that sentence. Then watch what gets prescribed on the back of it. High reps. Long burning sets. Circuits. Three sessions of cardio stacked on top. A protocol whose main product is fatigue, given to the person with the least capacity left to absorb any. They identified a recovery problem and prescribed more recovery cost. The answer runs the other way and it is not complicated. If your recovery budget has shrunk, you spend it on whatever returns the most growth per unit of fatigue, and that is a heavy set of five. Four to six reps, a handful of lifts, three minutes between sets, done inside the hour. Nearly every rep is a growth rep. Almost nothing goes on the burning, the sweating and the gasping, which build nothing at all and then bill you for four days. Twenty-five reps taken to failure is a fortnight of fatigue for a fraction of the stimulus. That is not the cautious option for a sixty-five-year-old. It is the most reckless thing on the timetable. Now the part that actually matters. Ageing is not one process. It is a list. Muscle wastes. Bone thins. Tendon softens. The fast fibres that catch you when the pavement arrives early vanish first while the slow ones sit there in perfect health. Motor units drop out. The nervous system stops asking for full effort because nothing has demanded full effort in fifteen years. Read that list back and tell me what heavy resistance training does. It builds muscle. It loads bone, which is the only language bone speaks. It stiffens tendon. It recruits the fast fibres, because that is what heavy means physiologically and there is no other route in. It forces the nervous system to ask for everything again. Every item on the list of what ageing takes is on the list of what a heavy set gives back. Nothing else on earth does that. Not a walk, not a class, not a pill, not twenty minutes on a machine with the paper open. You were told to go gently because somebody quietly decided you were finishing. Go heavy, because you are not.

Sama Hoole

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The "8-12 reps for hypertrophy" rule exists because enhanced bodybuilders grow from anything. Before the steroid era, everyone trained heavy. Four to six reps, compound lifts, progressive overload. It worked. Then steroids arrived, and the rules quietly broke. Suddenly bodybuilders could do 20-set arm sessions, drop sets stacked on supersets, and still grow, because the drugs were doing the building. Naturally, they credited the training. They thanked the volume and the pump. They were wrong. They were growing from the testosterone, the trenbolone, and the dianabol. The workout was a costume. But naturals watched them, copied them, and have spent decades running enhanced protocols and wondering why nothing happens. Here is what nobody told you. Enhanced lifters grow independent of training. The drugs build muscle whether the session was smart or idiotic. You do not have that luxury. A natural needs every advantage the body will give: heavy weight, low reps, maximum tension, minimal fatigue. The 8-12 range isn't wrong. It is just suboptimal, for natural and enhanced alike. Stop copying drug users. Their rules were never written for you.

The "8-12 reps for hypertrophy" rule exists because enhanced bodybuilders grow from anything. Before the steroid era, everyone trained heavy. Four to six reps, compound lifts, progressive overload. It worked. Then steroids arrived, and the rules quietly broke. Suddenly bodybuilders could do 20-set arm sessions, drop sets stacked on supersets, and still grow, because the drugs were doing the building. Naturally, they credited the training. They thanked the volume and the pump. They were wrong. They were growing from the testosterone, the trenbolone, and the dianabol. The workout was a costume. But naturals watched them, copied them, and have spent decades running enhanced protocols and wondering why nothing happens. Here is what nobody told you. Enhanced lifters grow independent of training. The drugs build muscle whether the session was smart or idiotic. You do not have that luxury. A natural needs every advantage the body will give: heavy weight, low reps, maximum tension, minimal fatigue. The 8-12 range isn't wrong. It is just suboptimal, for natural and enhanced alike. Stop copying drug users. Their rules were never written for you.

Sama Hoole

69,218 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

Why low rep training feels "wrong" to most people: You finish a set of 5 heavy reps. No pump. No burn. Heart rate barely elevated. Could have a conversation immediately after. Brain says: "That wasn't hard enough." Then you finish a set of 15 reps. Massive pump. Burning sensation. Gasping for air. Sweating. Need to sit down. Brain says: "NOW we're working." Your brain is confusing systemic fatigue with muscular stimulus. The muscle was challenged adequately at rep 5. Everything after that was just making you tired. Growth doesn't care about your perception of difficulty. It cares about mechanical tension. This is the disconnect you need to overcome.

Why low rep training feels "wrong" to most people: You finish a set of 5 heavy reps. No pump. No burn. Heart rate barely elevated. Could have a conversation immediately after. Brain says: "That wasn't hard enough." Then you finish a set of 15 reps. Massive pump. Burning sensation. Gasping for air. Sweating. Need to sit down. Brain says: "NOW we're working." Your brain is confusing systemic fatigue with muscular stimulus. The muscle was challenged adequately at rep 5. Everything after that was just making you tired. Growth doesn't care about your perception of difficulty. It cares about mechanical tension. This is the disconnect you need to overcome.

Sama Hoole

1,842,375 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten

"My arms aren't growing no matter how hard I train them." No matter how hard. Yes. That will be it. Because clearly the missing ingredient is effort. Twenty sets was not enough, the four angles were not enough, the drop set at the end was not enough, and the answer is presumably a fifth angle and a whole additional evening. What your arms actually get in a normal week: - Heavy tension from every row, chin and pulldown - Heavy tension from every press, dip and close-grip - Twenty isolation sets piled on top of that - All of it at the end, when the weight has to be light - All of it at length, where damage is highest - A drop set, because they are stubborn - Four days of soreness - One training exposure, seven days later Biceps and triceps are the most damage-sensitive tissue in the building. Two small muscles with almost nothing there to absorb the work. Damage is not a growth signal. It is a repair bill, and repair spends the exact recovery you were hoping to build with. So no, they are not growing no matter how hard you train them. They are not growing because of how hard you train them. What they need instead: - One or two hard sets - Early in the session, while you can still load them properly - Twice a week - Add weight when you can Two of those sets are all the direct arm work I do. The bloke on his eleventh set of pushdowns has been at that machine since I walked in.

"My arms aren't growing no matter how hard I train them." No matter how hard. Yes. That will be it. Because clearly the missing ingredient is effort. Twenty sets was not enough, the four angles were not enough, the drop set at the end was not enough, and the answer is presumably a fifth angle and a whole additional evening. What your arms actually get in a normal week: - Heavy tension from every row, chin and pulldown - Heavy tension from every press, dip and close-grip - Twenty isolation sets piled on top of that - All of it at the end, when the weight has to be light - All of it at length, where damage is highest - A drop set, because they are stubborn - Four days of soreness - One training exposure, seven days later Biceps and triceps are the most damage-sensitive tissue in the building. Two small muscles with almost nothing there to absorb the work. Damage is not a growth signal. It is a repair bill, and repair spends the exact recovery you were hoping to build with. So no, they are not growing no matter how hard you train them. They are not growing because of how hard you train them. What they need instead: - One or two hard sets - Early in the session, while you can still load them properly - Twice a week - Add weight when you can Two of those sets are all the direct arm work I do. The bloke on his eleventh set of pushdowns has been at that machine since I walked in.

Sama Hoole

32,804 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

Time under tension does not build muscle. You can move as slowly as you like. Control every millimetre. Turn a six-rep set into a 60-second ceremony. The muscle does not respond to the clock. It responds to mechanical tension applied close to failure by a load that is actually threatening it. No proximity to failure: no stimulus, regardless of how slowly you moved. And if you do push close to failure with a slow concentric, you have spent the whole set recruiting slow-twitch fibres, the ones built for endurance, while the fast-twitch fibres, the ones with genuine hypertrophic potential, wait at the side with nothing to do. They want heavy weight moved with maximum intent. They want the bar to slow because it is beating you, not because you chose to lose to it. Slow eccentrics compound this by generating damage without a proportional growth signal, because the muscle is at its strongest during the eccentric and nowhere near its limit. Feel free to move slowly. The fast-twitch fibres will remain exactly where they are.

Time under tension does not build muscle. You can move as slowly as you like. Control every millimetre. Turn a six-rep set into a 60-second ceremony. The muscle does not respond to the clock. It responds to mechanical tension applied close to failure by a load that is actually threatening it. No proximity to failure: no stimulus, regardless of how slowly you moved. And if you do push close to failure with a slow concentric, you have spent the whole set recruiting slow-twitch fibres, the ones built for endurance, while the fast-twitch fibres, the ones with genuine hypertrophic potential, wait at the side with nothing to do. They want heavy weight moved with maximum intent. They want the bar to slow because it is beating you, not because you chose to lose to it. Slow eccentrics compound this by generating damage without a proportional growth signal, because the muscle is at its strongest during the eccentric and nowhere near its limit. Feel free to move slowly. The fast-twitch fibres will remain exactly where they are.

Sama Hoole

44,777 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten

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One of the most famous and parodied scenes in THE PROFESSIONAL was never meant to be seen. It was the final take, and Gary Oldman was bored and did this as a joke to make Luc Besson laugh. Luc loved it so much he used it in the movie!

One of the most famous and parodied scenes in THE PROFESSIONAL was never meant to be seen. It was the final take, and Gary Oldman was bored and did this as a joke to make Luc Besson laugh. Luc loved it so much he used it in the movie!

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NOBODY tells you the real reason people move to Dubai. It’s not the taxes. Everyone leads with the taxes because it’s the easy answer. The real reason is quieter and harder to admit. It’s that for the first time in your life, the country is on your side. You spend 30 years in the West being treated like a suspect. Your bank watches you. Your government taxes you and resents you for earning it. The news tells you that wanting to be successful makes you the problem. Then you land here and something flips. The bank wants your business. The government wants you to build. Nobody looks at your wealth like you stole it. Nobody makes you apologize for working hard. You don’t realize how heavy that weight was until somebody takes it off your back. That’s the part the haters will never understand. They think people move here to dodge a tax bill. People actually move here to stop feeling like a criminal for doing well. 🇦🇪

Ruslan Khairullin

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When you train in the 10-12 rep range, most of your reps have no direct effect on growth. When you train in the 4-6 range, virtually all of your reps are growth reps. Both ranges can build muscle. The mechanism doesn't care about the rep count. It cares about how close you get to true failure on the reps where the high-threshold motor units are recruited and every available fibre is firing. Those are the stimulating reps. Everything else is filler. The catch with 10-12 is twofold. First, only the last 4-5 reps in a 12-rep set are actually stimulating. The first seven are buffer. They generate fatigue, lactic acid, and joint wear that the muscle has to push through before any growth signal arrives. Effort, yes. Stimulus, no. Second, and this is where the high-rep crowd quietly come undone: the long set produces so much afferent feedback (burning, gasping, the legs giving a small philosophical speech) that almost nobody actually takes the set to true failure. They stop two, three, sometimes four reps short, mistake the discomfort for the limit, and call it a hard set. The stimulating reps they were chasing never showed up. A set of 6 doesn't allow that confusion. Failure is mechanical. The weight either moves or it doesn't. No interpretive dance required. You'll grow on 10-12. You'll grow more on 4-6, with less joint wear, less recovery debt, and considerably less guesswork. One range tolerates your mistakes. The other doesn't have room for them.

When you train in the 10-12 rep range, most of your reps have no direct effect on growth. When you train in the 4-6 range, virtually all of your reps are growth reps. Both ranges can build muscle. The mechanism doesn't care about the rep count. It cares about how close you get to true failure on the reps where the high-threshold motor units are recruited and every available fibre is firing. Those are the stimulating reps. Everything else is filler. The catch with 10-12 is twofold. First, only the last 4-5 reps in a 12-rep set are actually stimulating. The first seven are buffer. They generate fatigue, lactic acid, and joint wear that the muscle has to push through before any growth signal arrives. Effort, yes. Stimulus, no. Second, and this is where the high-rep crowd quietly come undone: the long set produces so much afferent feedback (burning, gasping, the legs giving a small philosophical speech) that almost nobody actually takes the set to true failure. They stop two, three, sometimes four reps short, mistake the discomfort for the limit, and call it a hard set. The stimulating reps they were chasing never showed up. A set of 6 doesn't allow that confusion. Failure is mechanical. The weight either moves or it doesn't. No interpretive dance required. You'll grow on 10-12. You'll grow more on 4-6, with less joint wear, less recovery debt, and considerably less guesswork. One range tolerates your mistakes. The other doesn't have room for them.

Sama Hoole

63,051 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

Josh was nice enough to support me up Daddy Issues in a day. I did it a few weeks ago with Chris Weidner as my first climb in the Valley for the season; it was nice to come back to it feeling more tuned up and to climb it in a casual 7.5h. And really nice not to haul… much more relaxing! And the views never get old.

Josh was nice enough to support me up Daddy Issues in a day. I did it a few weeks ago with Chris Weidner as my first climb in the Valley for the season; it was nice to come back to it feeling more tuned up and to climb it in a casual 7.5h. And really nice not to haul… much more relaxing! And the views never get old.

Alex Honnold

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The advice on lifting weights runs backwards. It gets gentler at exactly the rate the danger gets worse. Young, with muscle to spare, you are told to lift heavy. Middle-aged, losing about 1 per cent of it a year, you are told to keep active. Older, with the bone thinning, you are told to try swimming. Older still, when a fall is the thing most likely to end your independence, you are handed a resistance band the colour of a boiled sweet. Old, when a broken hip kills 1 in 4 within the year, you are told to sit down. Then you are told you did well to get here. Grip strength predicts how long you will live better than your blood pressure does. Nobody has ever been prescribed a heavier bar for it. The muscle you have in old age is the muscle you built and kept. It is the only pension that pays out in getting off the floor. The body asks for load harder every decade. The guidance answers with a chair. The people who need the heavy weights most are the only people told not to touch one.

The advice on lifting weights runs backwards. It gets gentler at exactly the rate the danger gets worse. Young, with muscle to spare, you are told to lift heavy. Middle-aged, losing about 1 per cent of it a year, you are told to keep active. Older, with the bone thinning, you are told to try swimming. Older still, when a fall is the thing most likely to end your independence, you are handed a resistance band the colour of a boiled sweet. Old, when a broken hip kills 1 in 4 within the year, you are told to sit down. Then you are told you did well to get here. Grip strength predicts how long you will live better than your blood pressure does. Nobody has ever been prescribed a heavier bar for it. The muscle you have in old age is the muscle you built and kept. It is the only pension that pays out in getting off the floor. The body asks for load harder every decade. The guidance answers with a chair. The people who need the heavy weights most are the only people told not to touch one.

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