While I do not lament getting older, I do hate having to regulate my training. Not that long ago I just remember going balls to the wall every session.
Managing fatigue has become a huge issue for me. My diet and sleep are on point along with other modes of recovery. So if you haven't got those on point, try that first.
My training is as follows: Monday and Friday are lower/pull days. Wednesday and Saturday are push days. I had been splitting up the more demanding lifts such as bench and overhead pressing on push days and squat, heavy rows, and deadlift on my lower/pull days.
Increasingly I have been finding fatigue an issue later in the week even while keeping a good eye on volume. This leaves me holding myself back.
Enough of that. I have since switched to squatting, deadlifting, and heavy rows on Mondays and bench and overhead work on Wednesdays. I do a little assistance, but most of the volume is with the main work.
Now, if I feel good on those big days I can go "full ham," no holding back. With the later part of the week being mostly assistance of dips, curls, calves, abs, etc I can dial that back if I feel beat from earlier in the week. However, if there's enough in the tank I can push those later sessions also.
As always, my work is nothing revolutionary. This is just another tool for our toolbox. Thanks for reading.
