Fitness

A place to talk about fitness and health on Farcaster.

I swear that at age 42, every upper body workout I do feels like death the next few days.

Sit ups, push ups, bicep curls— they’re all “Does this pain mean I broke myself and I’m going to die?” in the aftermath.

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I get that with lower body lifts, upper body recovers more quickly somehow!

That’s a great idea. I may be more of a tension band and sustained-hold type of person than a free-weight and reps type of person anyway— and it is a gentler motion on the joints.

Pro tip maybe? I’m the same age and I exclusively do training using a tension band. Getting results with next to no soreness.

Perhaps you're lifting too much? Drop volume until you recover quickly and then slowly increase over the next 3-6 months?