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Originally Posted by Teufel_Hunden
5'10 and 193 this morning. Was 198 but doing a small cut to lean out a little.
Just turned 49, so I don't go really heavy anymore, try to focus on working in a variety of exercises, functional moves (walking lunges with dbells are killer), focusing on slow eccentric (4 - 5 seconds) and really feeling the muscles work. This seems to work for me and my body type. I've also backed off frequency a little as I can tell it takes a little longer to recover.
I really think it makes a huge difference in your success to find the type of training that your body responds to best. And that likely will change over time, with training age/experience, and as you get older.
As everyone has pointed out, diet is really the main point of emphasis, you can't out train a bad diet. To me it's 25% training and 75% diet.
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I agree about frequency. My feelings are that it isn't really the muscle group that needs the extra rest (studies show this) as it is the Central Nervous System. The CNS takes a lot longer to recover especially if over-trained!