I'm 29.
I'll say this much - when I was 23 - 24, I was hitting the gym five days a week. It wasn't unheard of to hit squats heavy one day, then heavy bench / chest the next, and then heavy deadlifts the day after that. Then a 4-5 mile run. No problemo.
Yesterday I did a set of deadlifts, and today I'm yawning and tired as fuck all day, and its Sunday. My nose sniffling. Its like this all the time after a good workout (even though the day-of the workout, im on cloud 9).
My lifts are stronger than ever, but it seems that the time it takes for me to recover has at least doubled. However, part of the reason maybe that when I was in my early twenties, although I worked out a lot, I wasn't nearly as strong as I am now. Maybe because I throw so much more weight around today, my CNS just gets more taxed, and I need more recovery time, although all-in-all my actual hours in the gym have fallen significantly.
One other thing - when I was in my early twenties I kept getting injured every other week - a slipped disk, a f***ed up shoulder, twisting my ankle walking up the stairs (mind you I wasn't some snail - I was an athlete in high school and throughout college). These days, the worst injury I get is my wrist getting strained from moving my mouse at work. My body has toughened-up, it seems.
Anyway, the TLDR version: I'm about 2x stronger, but my recover time is 2x longer.
I'll say this much - when I was 23 - 24, I was hitting the gym five days a week. It wasn't unheard of to hit squats heavy one day, then heavy bench / chest the next, and then heavy deadlifts the day after that. Then a 4-5 mile run. No problemo.
Yesterday I did a set of deadlifts, and today I'm yawning and tired as fuck all day, and its Sunday. My nose sniffling. Its like this all the time after a good workout (even though the day-of the workout, im on cloud 9).
My lifts are stronger than ever, but it seems that the time it takes for me to recover has at least doubled. However, part of the reason maybe that when I was in my early twenties, although I worked out a lot, I wasn't nearly as strong as I am now. Maybe because I throw so much more weight around today, my CNS just gets more taxed, and I need more recovery time, although all-in-all my actual hours in the gym have fallen significantly.
One other thing - when I was in my early twenties I kept getting injured every other week - a slipped disk, a f***ed up shoulder, twisting my ankle walking up the stairs (mind you I wasn't some snail - I was an athlete in high school and throughout college). These days, the worst injury I get is my wrist getting strained from moving my mouse at work. My body has toughened-up, it seems.
Anyway, the TLDR version: I'm about 2x stronger, but my recover time is 2x longer.