heavy lifting

[PoloBlue]

but the older you are you should avoid heavy lifting, heard of a guy that said he worked out all his life and was in the best shape of his life until one day he hurt his back and had three ruptured disks! now he cant lift anymore, he said that when a person gets older they need to be careful and dont do a lot of heavy workouts

I would stay away from "power lifting" you should do high reps with light weights.

 

[Warboss Alex]

Age is irrelevant. Whether you're 16 or 56, SAFE FORM IS CRITICAL. To an extent the older guys should watch their backs etc BUT if you keep good, safe form and use the necessary precautions (safety bars spotters, belts etc) then there's no reason to hurt yourself, no matter how heavy weight you lift.

For the reps I agree, you don't want to be doing doubles or triples in your worksets BUT light weights with high reps will not gain you much size.

Safety first, amen to that, but to grow huge you've got to throw about some serious slag iron.

 

[Phoenix_of_the_ashes]

Everybody can really **** up their back with bad form.