That sounds pretty decent. I'd cut back workout time to about a half hour
max. I'm 38 and have been lifting most of my life. For the past 5+ years
I've been lifting like you: low volume and frequency, and very high
intensity. Only problem (aside from never achieving a mesomorphic physique
like DeVany) was that recovery was becoming more and more difficult. I went
from doing one set to failure of (e.g.) squat, weighted dips, weighted,
pull-ups to doing the squats one day, upper body on another because I'd feel
sick the day after when doing all three in a single workout. The soreness
was lasting several days. Then I stumbled across the HST program at
thinkmuscle.com. For the first time in a long time, I don't feel like hell
all the time. I may even be getting a little bigger. So, if you're
experiencing anything like the severe post-workout debilitation I was, you
may want to give the HST program a try.
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> Subject: Weight lifting progress
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> Looking for a little advice on my strenth progress. I'm a 43 year old
> male who has been weight lifting off and on for about ten years, but
> never very consistently until getting my own weight set a year ago.
> Since then, my bench press has gone from ten reps at 125 to ten reps at
> 145, and squat from 185 to 245. Does that seem like meager progress for
> 11 months? I try to work out intensely and only do one or two sets per
> muscle group, and usually do the whole body in a one hour session or so.
> I try to do this every four or five days, but it often or occasionally
> stretches to a week or a little more.
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> Thanks for any advice,
> Hilary McClure
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> ps How's DeVany's book coming along? Anyone know?
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