LOL if I slept in one, my misses would nail the top down.
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I’ve always found these to hit my biceps more than anything. Probably why I stopped, too close to a curl for my liking.
I’m roughly the same age as you, and find myself getting increasingly disheartened whenever I hear people mention 35 as the magic number over which all gains disappear. Soon time to prove them wrong I guess.
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Well now you guys are just being super mean.
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To be totally fair, my main source for this is a 63 year old who still comfortably out lifts me, so I probably have to acknowledge that maybe my age isn’t my main issue.
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You guys don’t yet realize age is relative. Deadlift/squat/bench numbers can go up well into your 40s and maybe beyond if you lift steadily. Lift intelligently and this sport produces healthy side effects throughout your lives; also fights appearance of aging.
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I was blown away by this video:
The old dude about 1.5 mins in, can barely walk and just causal as you like nails 20kg over my pr, must be mid 80s and weighs nothing, amazing.
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Look at Charles Staley, keeps getting better and stronger at 58 and he’s been lifting for a freaking long time. Or the Kabuki strength co-founder Rudy Kadlub who set a fucking 557 kgs total at 70 last year…
Indeed some are keen of the barbell rows, but many coaches or athletes says it’s mostly a deadlift assistance lift. Or that they feel too much in the arms (I know I do). I prefer a dozen different lifts over this for my lats
You misunderstood my intent with that one. I’m too old to waste time and worry about minutiae. I don’t care about doing an exercise for my rhomboids, my teres major, my rear delts, my lats, my middle traps, my upper traps, and so on. I want to something hard that hits about everything and then be done with it. I don’t think I’m done progressing. I think majoring in the minors is something young/new trainees do. We’re too experienced and wise to make that mistake.
Love and hate that guy. He’s a beast.
For the fourth time, I’m doing rows for mid back thickness, not lats!!! 
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Hey man, I heard you want to do something for your lats!
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Yeah, and he chose rows.
ROWS.
Pfft. Amateur.
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If pull ups are for lats and rows are for lats then there’s no longer any mystery about why most lifters don’t have a thick back. 
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Don’t lats give you a thick back?!
Hmm need to do more rows!
I just looked up the old guy (Roy Mason) on OpenPowerlifting.com.
He was 76 at the time, weighed 151, and deadlifted 485 (3.2X body weight). Truly a impressive feat at any age, but at 76 it is remarkable. IMO far more impressive than Ronnie’s lifts that day.
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Right, so rowing for the lats.
Say, what are you doing to target your teres minor?
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I spent way too much time doing that after my shoulder surgery.
That’s frickin insane, I think that might be the most impressive lift I’ve ever seen.
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Rowing - whatever the muscle rowing will do it.
Yeah but how much does he row though?
8.5.2020 W10 D4 - Incline
It felt like a good session. Hopefully I’m sore in all the right places tomorrow.
Super Set
INCLINE (5/3/1 R/P)
45 x 10
95 x 5
125 x 5
145 x 5
165 x 13+6
KELSO SHRUG
50 x 10 w/ 3 sec hold + 10 regular x 3 sets
Super Set
DB INCLINE (BBB)
50 x 10 x 5 sets
INCLINE DB ROW (BBB)
50 x 10 x 5 sets
Giant Set (no rest)
DB REV FLY
15 x 15 x 2
DB REAR DELT FLY
40 x 10 x 2
SA CABLE LEAN AWAY LAT RAISE
20 x 10 ea x 2
DB LAT RAISE
15 x 10 x 2
CABLE CURL
130 x 15 + 100 x 10
130 x 12 + 100 x 8
CABLE REV PRESS DOWN
130 x 20 + 100 x 15
140 x 15 + 110 x 8
Time: 43 min
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For what it’s worth, I heard either Dave Tate, Jim Wendler, or Mark Bell say that most are the strongest or have the most gains at around their 40s…
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