Strength Training Past 50

With excerpts from this book I was able to convince my 60+ y.o. wife to join a gym and start weight training with me, even though she had never done so in her life. The magic was the recognition that you CAN reverse muscle loss at any age, and it can be achieved with as little as one set of about 15 max effort resistance exercises done twice per week. The benefits of strength training are huge, especially for older folks like us.

Bought it for parents, they really liked it. A bit overwhelming but very comprehensive.

Though the book nominally targets strength trainers above 50 years old, very little of the material is specific to this demographic, being rather generic strength training advice. A few significant points merit mention. They have trainers launching into advanced strength training techniques, relatively early in their lifting process. Though they use different terminology, which adds to the confusion, they have seniors doing drop sets, on every set of every workout for given exercises, after barely 6 months of lifting. The same holds true for pré exhaustion techniques. These are advanced methods that should be used sparingly and infrequently to prevent overtraining. Suggesting them this fast , and with this kind of regularity, is irresponsible and quite surprising giving their credentials. They also need to revisit their pictures for certain exercises. For every version of the squat, they recommend to go down until thighs are parallel to the ground, yet the images show models that stop well short of parallel. This could give new trainers the wrong impression of what is meant by parallel. All of this is doubly disappointing as it was a suggested reading for a CANFITPRO course on training seniors.

Did not have enough information for adults 66 years old. Mostly was about equipment not about home exercise Z

Amazing! As You Age YOU MUST Exercise More (And Don't Sleep During the Day)! We proved this with Grandma! She became totally immobile and sick to near death several times in a rehab/nursing home. Ee took her out of this terrible place and got her physical therapy and also got her to stop sleeping during the day and instead doing productive things. Now her brain has gone from a slide to dementia to sharper and sharper and now she was cooking Thanksgiving dinner and ordering people around the kitchen! Wow! Praise God!