Lifting Maintenance

[Anonymous]

55-year-old woman and I’ve accomplished my body composition goals through a year of cleaning up my diet, eating more protein, and lifting 3x/week. Now I’m trying to figure out how to lift for life without striving for more. I’ve been told to combat muscle loss at my age I’ll need to keep adding more weight indefinitely, but is that true? I really just want to maintain and stay strong. Any older lifelong lifters who can advise on this?

[Anonymous]

I think the challenge of maintenance is that life isn’t constant. Every illness, injury, major stressor, even vacation sets you back. It’s a constant struggle to stay healthy as we age and feels like running in place. People think that the hard part is accomplishing the goal but the real challenge is maintaining it. So feel good about your healthy life. Now you get to fight to keep it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the challenge of maintenance is that life isn’t constant. Every illness, injury, major stressor, even vacation sets you back. It’s a constant struggle to stay healthy as we age and feels like running in place. People think that the hard part is accomplishing the goal but the real challenge is maintaining it. So feel good about your healthy life. Now you get to fight to keep it.

+1. Trainers always say maintenance is so much harder than achievement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the challenge of maintenance is that life isn’t constant. Every illness, injury, major stressor, even vacation sets you back. It’s a constant struggle to stay healthy as we age and feels like running in place. People think that the hard part is accomplishing the goal but the real challenge is maintaining it. So feel good about your healthy life. Now you get to fight to keep it.

Huh?!

Just keep doing what youre doing OP.

Im doing the same.
I suppose i will just gradually lift more as i naturally get a bit stronger over time. Im not going to overthink it.