Over the past 6-8 months, I’ve trained on weightlifting about as hard as a human possibly can without overtraining — and not just for my age group. For anyone.

The results are that I’ve gotten approximately twice as strong on most exercises — some a little more, some a little less. I’ve lost a bit of fat (wasn’t trying to lose fat, but did anyway) and gained ~10 pounds of muscle.

I don’t advise anyone else to do what I did. Most would probably end up in the hospital. The reason I could do it is I already did it in my 20s so I knew what I was capable of and importantly, how to self-monitor for injury. It has been the best thing I’ve done for myself in a long time and as I’ve already written I feel immensely better.

It feels pretty amazing being strong again, I have to admit.