Training heavy for 20y+ - how is your body holding up?
Just curious to hear from a bunch of veterans in the game about how much you've had to cut some slack on the heavy lifting, on which excersises and why. Perhaps not the most scientific thread in the world, but interesting to me.
Personally, I'm a "young" veteran at 35yo, so I can still do almost everything I could as a 16yo, functionally, lucky I only had a million minor injuries, which I attribute mainly to atleast 12 years spent actively competing in powerlifting and a few competitions of strongman which effed me up on the regular.
While I move like a walrus on land before a warmup, I can still move well on everything today after the right steps are taken.The one excersise I just can't get back into the past 5 years has been back squatting or anything with a bar on my neck. I had minor success 3 years ago running a very minimal amount of volume on an SSB, but even that caused radiating pain to my neck. I injured it badly doing a frontsquat or perhaps it was some 300+kg yoke walk; not sure, but the MRI showed 2 crushed cervical discs and I never was able to get the tolerance for direct spine loading in that area again. The pain can also flare up with weighted pullups if I don't deliberately lift slow.
I'm still frontsquatting heavy on the regular though.
How bout you? This is just a place to share stories I guess.
Posted Jul 6, 2025, 7:29 PM UTC