Managing Morbidity & Maintaining Vigor – Beast Over Burden

Managing Morbidity: Memento Mori

Managing Morbidity: Staying Active & Vigorous

We don’t strength train, though, to just stave off death or sickness or even compress morbidity into the smallest possible portion of our lives. We train FOR something (or multiple things).

We train for health. We train to dance with out granddaughter. We train to take care of our chickens. Some train for glory, others to take their medicine, others to compete.

It’s really a remarkable thing, to walk into a gym multiple times a week, year-after-year-, and fight against iron and gravity.

While Karl, now walking around 50 pounds lighter, misses looking like he lifts when he walks around. But everyday activities are easier. Certain things open up to him – such as getting clothes that fit easily or may even – gasp – going for a run.

Managing Morbidity: Training as an Athlete of Aging

Okay, PRs are behind you. What do you do now?

Sully and Noah had a great podcast series discussing this in greater detail.

Right now, Karl is completing LP and seeing where that ends. He might spend some time pursuing hypertrophy. He might go for a run. He’ll definitely attend to his field to grow food and tend his chickens.

You need to accumulate hard sets. That’s what strength training boils down to. It’s not that the reps, sets, technique, or exercise selection don’t matter. It’s just that, at the end of the day, you need to accumulate hard sets consistently over time.