Saturday Morning Introduction

[WillyCorbet]

Introductions have gotta be the worst… here goes.

Mid 40s. Ex-Army. Iraq and Afghanistan rotations. Dad. Husband. Teacher. Mostly sane human.

I like gardening, killing elk and deer, lifting heavy things, tying my wife to the bed and leaving her in a puddle, Test/Deca cycles, and hot wives. Used to love the bottom of a bottle. Sober today.

Been in weight rooms for most of my life it seems. 2 degrees in exercise and the science around it. Life got busy awhile back. - injury, divorce, custody, jail, jail again, remarried…jail….- training lost its priority. Refocused and glad to be here at UG. Lots of fantastic information in these pages.

Currently working on regaining lost strength and adding a few #s. Disgusting how fast strength disappears at 40. 1000# club is close and the baseline I want to work from. PRs are a thing at 40, right…?

 

[Poppy]

Welcome brother

Would you like a vet tag?

Ever been “enhanced”?

Currently “enhanced”?

1000 pound total on platform PLing?

 

[Poppy]

PRs are a thing at 40, right…?

Yep sure are…. Set my bench and squat pr in my early 40’s.

 

[WillyCorbet]

Yup- Squat, Dead, Bench. Basic.

First run at enhancement was 20 years ago in Iraq. Jumped on the TRT train a few years back. Currently just getting consistent in the weight room again and regaining some natural strength and size.

Test/Deca/Anadrol in the near future.

Definitely throw a vet tag my way. Thank you! Seems like quite a few military guys around here.

 

[Poppy]

Lots of veterans here for sure… bunch of meatheads! Haha

Any particular template you’re following for training?

 

[WillyCorbet]

Funny you asked. I was just going through the Dropbox on here looking at some training templates.

Right now I’m using a basic 5/3/1. Aerobic work days in between. It’s been a bit since I have tracked/logged training. Feels like anything is progress.

Definitely interested in suggestions if you have any!

 

[Poppy]

This was my favorite. Dave Tate has many great articles on the subject. It may or may not work for you.

WSBB Books - Special Strength Development For All Sports

After four years of meticulous data compilation, research, and writing, Louie Simmons presents Special Strength Development for All Sports. This book is a culmination of over 40 years of Simmons' groundbreaking work and experimentation within his renowned gym, Westside Barbell, which serves as hi...

www.westside-barbell.com

 

[Poppy]

I’m tagging in @JB_rD81 and @Dirtnasty. They are very knowledgeable on the platform.

I know what worked for me but terrible on coaching others.

Tagging in coach @Kad1 too. Dude has seen a thing or two so he knows a thing or two.

 

[Poppy]

Apologies… I posted a westside template for sports… search for the powerlifting one. It’s generally the same. Like I said ELITEFTS had a bunch of great articles on it.

 

[John]

Im not a meat head,im a hard ass,life taker and heartbreaker Sir

 

[Poppy]

Widow maker

 

[Dirtnasty]

Welcome aboard

 

[Neuro]

Welcome

 

[JLee]

Welcome to UGM.

 

[TG1]

Welcome bro. Glad to have you on here

 

[WillyCorbet]

Ahhh… thanks fellas. This is better than my personalized shopper on Temu.

 

[Poppy]

We’re a pretty friendly bunch. No tolerance for bullying or berating.

 

[John]

Hopefully you stick around,and are active on a somewhat regular basis…

 

[Mossy1985]

Welcome aboard

 

[JB_rD81]

@WillyCorbet welcome! I see @Poppy tagged me, sorry I haven’t been around much, got a lot of shit going on in my life.

PR’s are ABSOKUTELY a thing after 40. One of my old training partners is 45 and just set the 3rd highest 220 lb total for a masters lifter at 1846 RAW… also hit his first ever 2x body weight bench and set PR’s in squat and DL at 220. He also owns records at 242.

I myself am 14 days away from 44, and even though I retired from powerlifting almost 10 years ago and received my lifetime achievement award 5 years ago (fake hip, little inside joke) I still train like I’m prepping for the platform and feel like had I not been sidelined by a crippling injury I would still be killing it as a masters lifter myself.

As @Poppy mentioned, WSBB/Conjugate are probably HANDS DOWN the best for building strength at any point in life… obviously as we age, injury is something we have to pay special attention to, however through proper training anything can be achieved! Set your goals and take them down one at a time