How long are your sessions, how much volume do you cover?

Everyone handles things differently. I have trained hard for more than sixty straight days with twenty-one heavy sets plus an hour of cardio each day. This past week I added a second hour of cardio on seven of the last eight days. With my current support I have still gained strength and muscle even while dropping almost twenty pounds. Ultimately you need to pay attention to how you feel. If the workouts are not declining you can continue pushing, otherwise more rest is needed.

Sounds like you went through a breakup or something, just kidding. I build each workout around the biggest compound lift for that day and follow a push-pull-legs setup centered on bench, deadlifts and squats, then fill in the rest of the work after those main moves are finished. I do not always put deadlifts on back day either, sometimes I center a second back session on pull-ups or use incline bench for a second push day. At forty-four with the amount of work you listed I would probably run out of energy and risk getting hurt. Still, if you feel good then keep doing what works for you.

For background I am in my early forties, have stayed fairly active most of my life though most of that was not heavy lifting until the last few years when I became consistent. The short version is I usually lift forty-five to sixty minutes three or four times a week and then do thirty minutes of moderate to hard cardio when I can. I also have two days a week of basketball or longer runs on non-lifting days and one complete rest day. I train with a partner, do a short warm-up, then start with the heaviest exercise. After that we move to secondary moves for the same muscles, often using supersets with a matching move or core work. For chest it might look like light cable fly warm-up, flat bench for four or five sets, incline bench for three sets supersetted with dumbbell curls and leg raises, decline bench for three sets supersetted with hammer curls and leg raises, then a finisher of dumbbell fly into chestbusters into preacher curls for three sets. Our usual split is back, chest, shoulders and legs, and day four is sort of an

I am also running the main three compounds, one hundred fifty test split every other day, two IU growth hormone each night, and four milligrams of the other compound split between Sunday and Thursday. I feel great overall and it sounds like your recovery is in good shape too. Keep going strong.