CLICK HERE for a podcast about this topic (episode 226 of Running Stronger)
Last week, I wrote a post about how lifting has to be hard if you’re going to make progress.
But “hard” doesn’t necessarily equal “heavy.”
Yet depending on who’s filling your social media feed, that may or may not be a surprise.
There’s a big push for “heavy lifting,” especially when it comes to certain populations and certain conditions (e.g., menopausal women and osteoporosis).
Unfortunately, it’s more complicated than “if you lift heavy, your bone density will increase.”
There are many things we should consider, from ranging from preference to efficacy to safety, before we just start stacking plates on a bar or picking up a set of heavy dumbbells.
If you’re interested in the details on what those considerations might be, then either click the podcast link at the top or watch the YouTube video.
Most of the time, these are the same content, but it’s slightly different this week.
I recorded the video a couple weeks ago and then redelivered a very similar chat during a bi-weekly Team Mountain Goat video call.
So while the information is the same, the delivery is a bit different.
I’d say the podcast is a little looser on the style, but a little more buttoned up on the content, whereas the video allows me to demonstrate some of the concepts by deadlifting increasingly heavy weights.
Hope you find it helpful and have a great weekend.
It’s my birthday Saturday, so I’ll be enjoying the outdoors and sharing good food with close friends.
Hope your weekend is just as good.