{"id":1408,"date":"2017-06-19T02:30:05","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T02:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2025-04-21T13:26:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:26:59","slug":"more-reps-less-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=1408","title":{"rendered":"More Reps, Less Weight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a philosophy I completely agree with. I hear of middle-aged men tearing tendons and having ACL issues; all due to too much weight and jerking their weight s around while doing a circuit. I almost think machines are better for older men because you can manage the motion better.<\/p>\n<p>This is a good read with some pointers for middle-aged men.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. &#8211; I am not 60, but these tips still apply!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"VknzkDFkFu\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/justfitnesshub.com\/building-muscle-after-60-years-of-age\/\">Building Muscle After 60 Years Of Age<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/justfitnesshub.com\/building-muscle-after-60-years-of-age\/embed\/#?secret=VknzkDFkFu\" data-secret=\"VknzkDFkFu\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Building Muscle After 60 Years Of Age&#8221; &#8212; Just Fitness\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a philosophy I completely agree with. I hear of middle-aged men tearing tendons and having ACL issues; all due to too much weight and jerking their weight s around while doing a circuit. I almost think machines are better for older men because you can manage the motion better. This is a good read with some pointers for middle-aged men. P.S. &#8211; I am not 60, but these tips still apply! Building Muscle After 60 Years Of Age &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[335,336],"class_list":["post-1408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-bodybuilding","tag-weights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1409,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions\/1409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}