Boiling The Frog

Boiling the Frog

 

Over the years I have tried to convince myself several times that I did not need to train heavy but it never really took.  I would train light and high reps for about a week or two then feel like my muscles were going flat.  Maybe it’s mental, but I feel all mushy if I don’t go heavy most of the time.  I mean; it is a fact that heavy weights make dense, hard muscles.

 

I have also told myself that I just wanted to maintain and not gain anymore.  That didn’t work for two reasons.  Reason one; I am a sick man and I realize that I will NEVER be big enough. The second reason or reason two; I just cannot be stagnating.  I’m either going forward or going backward.  That’s just me.

 

Now, I have to go forward.   The best way I know to go forward is with heavy weights. There is only one problem.  How does a 40 plus man get to the heavy weights without injury?  Very carefully!! 

 

Never tried this myself (don’t think I will), but they say you can put a frog in hot water and he will jump out right away. They also say if you take that same frog (well, one like him) put him in cooler water and turn the heat up slowly he will stay in until he is boiled.

 

Using that same kind of thinking, I start really light and go up slowly doing lots of sets along the way.  If I am doing squats, I start with the bar and squat it 10 times.  After that, I add 25s, then 45s and on and on it goes till I get heavy enough to pyramid(10,6,4,2,10).  In the end, I get my heavy weight injury free.  Yes, it takes more time.  True, you cannot go as heavy as if you had gone straight to the big weight, but you don’t get hurt and you still grow.  Now, It’s your set!!