re: Daily Strength Check-In

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What kind of weight are you using on your failure sets?

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Just depends on how I feel. To me the 'intensity' and max # of repetitions of what I do on the failure sets is more important than the 'weight'. Keep in mind I am 44 and not 'scared' of but very conscious about not wanting to tear a bicep, shoulder, pec, tri, etc. because for me at this point it would essentially be game over for weight training if that were to happen. I would not be able to come back from it mentally or physically most likely. Not as worried about tearing a pec as I am a bi, tri, or shoulder so on those days I am just very conscious of what I am doing and try to really 'focus' on what I am doing.

Today I used a 40lb dumbbell for all of the failure sets. The warm up sets were all with a 32.5lb dumbbell. I can tell you when I am in the HIT phase I get much more sore and workouts even though they are short take a lot out of me. It is difficult to get through a week. but when Monday rolls around I am ready for another week. My body has always responded to volume training better than HIT but I wanted to try this to see what would happen especially since I am training naturally. I am enjoying it so far and am seeing results. This phase ends last week of June and first week of July will be my week off and then will start the volume phase again for 90 days second week of July. Wash rinse repeat. I'm making notes along the way and one thing I have noticed is for me the HIT training is making my legs respond much much better than volume training does.