rvaldrich
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So I've been 23 for almost two decades until the last six months or so and BAM!, 40 years old hit like a freight train. Wrists started aching, I wrenched my elbow-super bad trying to push a twin-sized bed (feel free to laugh, I did...after I stopped swearing), and my knees are...well, they're basically not there.
So in that fit of depress all us quasi-seasoned physical culturists go through, I found myself reading through the older entries and I found my way to our famous Slow-Twitch Training program (starting here: Should You Train Your Slow Twitch Fibers? | StrongFirst). Sweet. All the talk of injury-mitigation sang to me like the Sirens to Odysseus. Only hopefully with less devouring of human flesh.
So let's say I tossed my current routine - because we all know that's such a wise idea - and went full Slow-Twitch (my 'sport' is, short-answer, MMA). What would that look like? Are we talking Push-Pull-Legs? Are we talking a Bro-split of chest, traps, lats, etc? Are we talking pec-major lift, pec-minor, serratus? I know we have McCarthy's write-up (How to Row 3000 Miles Across an Ocean with a Barbell | StrongFirst), but that was just two lifts and for a very specific event, so I'm not clear how transferrable that is to sustained training.
And I'm assuming (as I'm not a lifter of any kind), I'd basically just abandon the usual lifts. Even our beloved kettlebell swing? Or would one still look to do some 'endurance' work (like A+A)?
Lastly, this is hypertrophy work. Cool, cool. So should I eat like a hypertrophy routine? I'm cutting like a fiend to get a six pack before Four-One hits me, but if I need to add poptarts back into my diet, I can.
So in that fit of depress all us quasi-seasoned physical culturists go through, I found myself reading through the older entries and I found my way to our famous Slow-Twitch Training program (starting here: Should You Train Your Slow Twitch Fibers? | StrongFirst). Sweet. All the talk of injury-mitigation sang to me like the Sirens to Odysseus. Only hopefully with less devouring of human flesh.
So let's say I tossed my current routine - because we all know that's such a wise idea - and went full Slow-Twitch (my 'sport' is, short-answer, MMA). What would that look like? Are we talking Push-Pull-Legs? Are we talking a Bro-split of chest, traps, lats, etc? Are we talking pec-major lift, pec-minor, serratus? I know we have McCarthy's write-up (How to Row 3000 Miles Across an Ocean with a Barbell | StrongFirst), but that was just two lifts and for a very specific event, so I'm not clear how transferrable that is to sustained training.
And I'm assuming (as I'm not a lifter of any kind), I'd basically just abandon the usual lifts. Even our beloved kettlebell swing? Or would one still look to do some 'endurance' work (like A+A)?
Lastly, this is hypertrophy work. Cool, cool. So should I eat like a hypertrophy routine? I'm cutting like a fiend to get a six pack before Four-One hits me, but if I need to add poptarts back into my diet, I can.