Gomer Pyle
New Member
i'm oldish (43) and tall and similar weak points to yourself. PT's have told me squats and deadlifts difficult for long limbed so be sensible and leave ego at homeI'm 45, my weak points are feet,knees,hips, probably due to my last job with standing on the same spot for 8 hours a day on concrete, no matter how much squats or leg building exercise I do ,I can never get any gains just pains , upper body no problems , could lift weights all day long , any suggestions for lower body
i find if i'm going to do these excercises i get on a lot better if i take a lot of time to warm up/ stretch first i.e. med ium intense row machine 500m and maybe 7 minutes on a seated in door bike pedalling
i then do squat type stretches and also try and do 10 x squats on the flat side of an upturned buso ball thing- you can really feel what that does for coordination and engaging other support muscles/ ligament things on the sides of your knees
i'll then do say 5 squats with bar, another at 40kg another 5 at 60 kg and then once warmed up go for the 5 lots of 5 reps at the large weight
also doing them in your socks without shoes on, on a hard surface helps
there are some good form guides on line - do some research maybe search '5x5 stronglift'
good luck