Need Serious Help Here...

[lbashaw]

Been lifting for decades.

Many cycles...most of them successful.

Everything has been fine except lately after the first exercise of 3 or 4 sets I have a drastic reduction in strength.

Being 59 has alot to do with it I am sure but it shouldnt be this bad. My nutrition is clean and solid. Seven meals a day...decent pre workout carbs ...all the standard stuff we all know.

My splits are fine I think six days rotating body parts one day off. I only do light cardio and my routine is 45 minutes of 4 to 5 exercises with three sets sometimes four.

Here is an example of the problem:
Today chest... warm up for 10 minutes and stretch, flat bench 135 ten reps, 225 ten reps, 265 8 reps rest for 2 minutes
Then I feel like I cant do a damn thing.... incline bench 135 10 reps , 7 reps, 5 reps..... pec dec dips all substandard

I used to use the BSN Xplode as a preworkout drink...sugar caffeine ...maybe chug some of that.

I dont think I have health issues...but this this reduction in strength is disturbing. Any general comments would be appreciated.

Too damn young to get this damn weak..

 

[love2liftkat]

Hmm...How long have you been having trouble? Have you made any changes to training, nutrition, or in life lately? Is it only chest or every muscle?

 

[kenpoengineer]

Are you taking any medications? Do you monitor your BP or pulse during workouts?

 

[kisaj]

Several things-

You may need to look at your programming in general. 6 days a week is a lot for anyone and look to possibly change up your set/rep setup. You don't say how long you have been doing this routine, but even subtle changes in training can make a dramatic improvement.

What does your split look like? You resting enough before training the body part again?

Also- any change in diet? You say you diet is clean and solid, but is it adequate to support the amount of time you are training?

 

[lbashaw]

Thank you for all of your comments... yes, I need to look at my split, rest, nutrition.

 

[CorpKiller]

My two cents - probably a combination of all those factors. Age, nutrition, volume of work.... Having said that, I think you are outperforming most teens, early twenties lifters. You definitely don't have a problem with durability. Keep up the good work.