Middle Aged Muscles

Tag: Fitness Over 40

  • Rep Schemes: Using the Reverse Pyramid

    This weekend I decided I wanted to go hard and heavy on my max effort lower day and decided to use a “Reverse Pyramid” rep scheme to get volume in after I maxed out. Later in the day I was talking to a friend who asked my why I chose this vs a full pyramid,…

  • Training Recap, 5-2-23

    Last weeked I had a pretty good week in the gym, hitting a squat variation PR on my ME day and felt altogether good during the training week. Since then, not so much… No sweat at all, training isn’t linear and I’ve wound up doing some variations I’m not really used to or have experience…

  • Conjugate, How I Westside on the East Coast: DE Upper

    I saved this one for last for one really good reason: I find DE Upper Day extraordinarily boring… Boring or not, there is still a valid reason to do a DE (Dynamic Effort) Upper day and it makes a large impact for some people, myself included. In previous posts I talked about the value of…

  • Training Update, Working Through Shoulder Issues

    Figure this would be worth a quick post so here I am… One thing that’s worth knowing about me is I’ve always had shoulder issues as long as I can remember. Going back to being 10 years when I separated my left shoulder, then a couple years later when I separated the right one, then…

  • Training Recap/Progress Update

    Going back two weeks I missed two sessions due to vacation and came back somewhat rested to start a new block. The block started a week ago Saturday with ME Lower day so currently I’m on the second week of it, so no comments on some of the little tweaks I’ve made just yet. What…

  • Time Off and Breaks

    Haven’t posted in a while and there’s a good reason for that, I went on a short vacation. 4 total days spent in Vegas with my wife, I mixed it up between time at the pool, site seeing and some nice dinners. I didn’t lose a ton of money either, so I’ll call the trip…

  • Conjugate, How I Westside on the East Coast: ME Upper

    I’ll give this post a more interesting start than the last one: IT’S TIME TO TALK ABOUT MAXING OUT YOUR BENCH PRESS!!!!!!! There, did that get your attention? Just like my other post I’m starting with the disclaimer that I’m not a competitive powerlifter, I have competed in strongman, and I lift raw. I MAY…

  • Me Right Now

    What an interesting title right? It’s came to my attention that in order to start a blog that mixes what I’ve learned with what I’m doing, I should probably set a baseline of where I’m at currently. Makes sense, right? It does to me at least. Right now I’m ending what has become my yearly…

  • Who Am I?

    If you’re reading this, or anything online for that matter, it helps to know who the author is… Right??? I’ll make it simple, you can find me on Reddit as BiteyMax22 but if you’re reading this you may want to go to my Instagram at BiteyMax_Strength. I’m not a fitness professional but I’m also not…