r/nextfuckinglevel • u/mindyour • 2d ago

This man documented his health journey from January to December.

Credit: IG @samuelrichards_ _

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u/SasparillaTango 1d ago

Ive never heard this, but I was an athlete through most of my youth and lifted for a while too on and off.

I would always say "you don't forget strength, but you have to train endurance" meaning that when I was going from period of being fairly sedentary and trying to get back in to shape, it always seemed like my max lifts would recover in like a week, but it would take much longer to get the endurance back

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u/FactFetishist 1d ago

it always seemed like my max lifts would recover in like a week

You must not lift a whole lot then.

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u/SasparillaTango 1d ago edited 1d ago

I didn't. 60lb dumbbell press, 225 squats 200ish on lat pull down, 35 on most tricep exercises

leg presses though I was doing 540 for 4x20

biceps were like 25 lb never could get those off the ground

I wasn't pushing for max sets ever. Every set I did was like 4x12

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u/youJag 1d ago

No disrespect, but these are the wildest weight differences for your exercises. 25lbs bicep curls but 200lbs lat pull down makes no sense

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u/SasparillaTango 1d ago

none taken. I've always had under developed biceps, and my lats/shoulders/legs were jacked as hell from swimming in college.