Been away for awhile,from the weights,the gym,these forums.

[thor93]

Yeah, I think I am just barely ready to return to the gym. Going to join a different gym,rejoin that is. Forced out of the prior gym membership by the failings of my own body due to the chronic costochondritis condition that I developed in February of 2018. It was a hellacious ordeal that I would not wish on my worst enemy.

I am strongly determined to get back into the swing of things though. Thing is I am going to be naturally quite tentative to alot of approaches to various exercises. The resistance levels I will be using will be quite laughable to the onlookers/fellow members in the gym.

At 49, I am still looking quite fit to most people that I am around, especially in these modern times of mainstream acceptance epidemic fatness. I still have a trim waistline and I still have extra big forearms, thanks in part to the kind of work that I do at my job, as well as maintaining a good solid proper dietary intake.

Based on what will be the particular workout approach that I'll be incorporating, I will probably go to the gym likely 5 days a week,yeah mostly work out five straight days and then take 2 days off and then repeat. I think that will work out for me as a particular individual. Being that my workouts are going to be light resistance and conditioning mostly,i will basically strive for attaining a good pump and straying away from heavy weights/heavy resistance . I think that type of workout approach commitment should work best for me.

Day 1- Lat pulldowns and cable rows
Day 2- Db overheads and lateral raises
Day 3- Curls(Various)and Shrugs
Day 4- Cable Chest Presses and various tricep exercises.
Day 5- Squats and Lunges

Note: I will be bike riding to this gym as often as I can,so that should cover the cardio conditioning aspects of this consistent workout/exercise regiment.

[dazlittle]

welcome back.

[ElrondHubbard]

Good luck, Thor. Hope it works out well this time. Sounds like a pretty painful condition to deal with.

[weiss1967]

my workouts are going to be light resistance and conditioning mostly,i will basically strive for attaining a good pump and straying away from heavy weights/heavy resistance . I think that type of workout approach commitment should work best for me.
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This approach works well for hypertrophy, if your effort is solid and lighter weight taken to the failure, you will build. Good luck and kudos for spirit.

[KeepItMoving]

I cannot begin to tell you the ways I've had to modify my training over the years. I've had multiple surgeries related to training, sports injuries, and aging. There are things I simply cannot do anymore. So, I do other things. The good part about weight training is that you can control the movement, as well as the level of resistance. It has been a study in kinesiology. The one constant is that you can still train. You can!

If the young me saw the old me training, he'd think, "What a pvssy." If the old me saw the young me training, he'd say, "What a dumb*ss!"

Good luck.

[thor93]

Awesome post Mr KeepItMoving ! I like the last part Alot !