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jakeymadball · 04-21-2009, 10:37 AM

At 35 I've been weight training half my life. I love lifting, I'm not sure that I could ever stop.

I used to lift heavy in real abrieviated sessions concentrating on two or three exercises at a time - all compound lifts:

Snatch
Deadlift
Trap bar Deadlift
Squat
Clean & press
Dumbell bench.

I also used to do a lot of heavy sandbag lifting & farmers' walk & yoke carry/walk.

A serious case of sciatica put an end to all that. I now lift twice a week - one heavy-ish, one a barbell complex as recommended in Martin Rooney's book.

I now train more for the benefit I get when grappling & use a lot of fairly specific exercises that I have copied/learnt from guys like Ross Enamait, Into Combat, etc. I have felt a good increase in power & some explosiveness following this. Recently I've been very interested/impressed by the DeFranco stuff, well worth looking at.

04-21-2009, 10:37 AM	#18 (permalink)
jakeymadball Reputation: 10-14 Status: Rookie Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 10	At 35 I've been weight training half my life. I love lifting, I'm not sure that I could ever stop. I used to lift heavy in real abrieviated sessions concentrating on two or three exercises at a time - all compound lifts: Snatch Deadlift Trap bar Deadlift Squat Clean & press Dumbell bench. I also used to do a lot of heavy sandbag lifting & farmers' walk & yoke carry/walk. A serious case of sciatica put an end to all that. I now lift twice a week - one heavy-ish, one a barbell complex as recommended in Martin Rooney's book. I now train more for the benefit I get when grappling & use a lot of fairly specific exercises that I have copied/learnt from guys like Ross Enamait, Into Combat, etc. I have felt a good increase in power & some explosiveness following this. Recently I've been very interested/impressed by the DeFranco stuff, well worth looking at. __________________ That's not funny, that's not funny at all.