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At 53 I've been lifting Heavy & Training Hard for a few years. Every year i set goals to meet,but they seem harder to acheive as i get older. Ive got a different perspective as to setting PR's & goals.I forget about old Numbers. trying to hit a 425 bench,like i could when i was in my 40's,isnt achieveable now. I feel its more important to set realistic goals based on my current condition and not on what i used to lift.You'll lose focus on what your currently trying to accomplish if you fixated with how strong you used to be.so my goal is to make small,steady gains and strength increases over the long haul.Whast do others think about making training goals & Plans?
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I agree 100% with you. Goals of how much weight you can move at our age IMO is a goal for failure in many ways. Injury being the top one. We can never think we can do what we did in our 30s for example. I'm not saying we have less of a man now. We are just much older. The weight can move is so much greater and any peer walking down the street.
For me 52. My first goal is to not lose the lean mass I have. Thats just my way of staying in the gym. Then for me I pick an area of my body. For example : back thickness. In a years time I try to improve that lagging area. To do so I'm trying different training technique that I had not done before. I dont pull from the floor. I wont try to pull 600# or some crazy shit. I try to train smart. So, after a year and lets say I diet down I hope to see small but real changes.
Meanwhile back at the ranch I'm still weight training 5 hours a week. Keeping my shape and look different then all my peers.
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Thats the key,TRAIN SMARTER!I
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That's the best way to make gains I'm still a youngyon and my mentality is go big or go home and if I'm not focused everyday I end up going home on my goals I have tried to set realistic goals and it worked only if I could set my ego aside at times I'd make more progressComment
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