Devlin Brown at the watercooler: Why you want the dead lift in your life
Some wait until their late 50s when their specialists bemoan a shortage of lean muscle before starting resistance training
27 March 2023 - 05:00
Q: I’m a middle-aged man who cycles and runs to stay fit. I would like to start strength training to build muscle but there are thousands of opinions and almost as many different machines. If you could choose the top exercises for me to do, what would they be?
Your instinct is right — more variety is not necessarily better and more complicated is not always superior to sticking with simplicity. However, there is no one-size-fits-all formula for everyone, and that is probably the reason there’s such variety in modern gyms. ..
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