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Doss wrote:

<<The problem I have encountered is it takes a LOT of work to add

much muscle for a woman of my age and body type. In my fifties I am

noticing the recovery time is longer so it is hard to work a

particular body part often enough to gain much. And you have to be

careful of the ligaments as they do not build up as fast as muscles,

I have read (not sure where).

**** The trick to much of this is the right routine or doing the

exercises in the right way. Like you, I'm pretty much at the end of

my game, or so I thought. There is simply no way I can work out at

60 as vigorously as I did even when I was 55. OTH, I have actually

put on muscle mass in these past 5 years simply by not being

overzealous and changing exercises so that I don't put stress on the

muscles and joints in exactly the same way all the time. Even with

an exercise like squats, there are a lot of variations and each one

is just different enough so that you're not doing EXACTLY the same

thing at every workout.

Giving yourself the opportunity to recover is essential. If this

means you can only train with weights twice a week, then so be it.

This might be a problem for an elite level or competitive athlete

but even they have to learn what they can and can't do to make

progress.

My last little slug of muscle mass went on quite recently by

following Jerry Telle's biomechanical advantage style training

called Tellekinetics, which demands light weight and is thus joint

sparing. I certainly know I've trained after one of these workouts,

but only very slightly. Dolfzine will be running a series of these

little gems over time, but the chest routine is now up. It takes

practice to get it correct but is well worth the time and effort to

perfect it. To this I have added Davies' recommendation of

Bradford Presses (a press done with an EZ curl bar in my case,

pressed first in front, then to the back, but not so low as to rake

over the shoulders) and plate raises (with a light enough weight to

be able to do one set of 20 reps).

I will have to change this workout after the next couple of goes so

that I don't overtrain. Both Telle and Davies would tell you the

same thing and they have a great deal more knowledge of the subject

than I do.

My recommendation is to try new things, new exercises or new ways of

doing old ones. First you won't get a repetitive injury, secondly

you will be challenged and have a lot of fun, and third, you will

find some things that work better for you than others. When you

find something that works, you can use it more often than others,

taking care not to overtrain, or really " over use. "

And remember, , even though you don't think you're muscling up,

you are doing the best possible thing you can do for yourself. Even

TIME Magazine finally came out with a blurb in the latest issue

about the fact that for women over 50, HRT is problematic and the

best thing they can do is exercise and stay slim. Unfortunately

they put this in a sound bite. They needed to qualify " exercise " as

resistance training, or at least the top priority exercise, with

everything else following.

Rosemary Vernon, Editor

Dolfzine On-Line Fitness, Inc.®

A Not-For-Profit Corporation

www.dolfzine.com

Marina del Rey, CA

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