Agree 100%. Did nothing but super heavy weights for over 20 years. About 5 years ago I started having massive injuries from it. Tricep tendons torn off the elbow. Shoulder surgery only to have it rip again 11 months later. Herniated discs that will need fusion surgery soon. The list goes on. Best shape I was ever in was when I couldn’t go heavy all the time. Hit a few semi heavy sets to spark the muscle and then pump it full of blood. I turn 51 in a week. I have done so much damage I don’t even want to look at heavy. I do miss the feel of heavy sometimes but not the feel of tendons ripping and your elbow swelling up the size of a football. I watch the older people get talked into doing heavy CrossFit stuff and a month later they are in a sling or a brace. Heavy is a young persons game. But I am a male and was stupid. Look at ronnie Coleman.
” I have done so much damage I don’t even want to look at heavy.”
Heavy to a girl is 10lbs single arm curls.
Heavy to a 55yr old woman is 5lbs single arm curls.
Men don’t usually go heavy. They go stupid.
No good can come to a man over 50 from 200lb military presses, in sets of 3-5.
While great benefit can be derived from 3 sets of 10, good form and 55lbs.
FYI: It was those heavy military presses that took out my right shoulder at 43yrs old.