Originally Posted by
BTinNYC
I'm challenging the idea that our old guy workouts don't add strength.
I did no strength work for about 3 weeks and finally got off my azz yesterday. I had to cut back the resistance on a Bowflex by about 20 percent, and roughly the same loss of oomph for the floor exercises. That strength, that I lost, was due to old guy workouts.
I'm curious how many weeks it will take to get back to where I was pre-sloth. Five or six weeks is my guess.
Where did that idea come from? Silly, of course strength work will make you stronger. Although there's a caveat: if one doesn't use as much weight as possible for the number of reps attempted, not much happens. Even just doing one gym workout a week, I can usually increase my max squat weight by about 5#/week.