All true but it's not without risk.

I'm in my 50s, lifting weights for about 3 years now, slow steady increases in weight and am much stronger than I was in 2019. Recently while bench pressing I felt something "pop" in my shoulder and now can't do any pressing movement at all without significant pain. Diagnosed and tried to rehab it as a tendon strain with no improvement. Getting an MRI soon to see what's going on.

At my age I don't really feel "old" mentally or physically, so hitting my body's physical limits in the gym is both difficult to accept and discouraging, as I had been making decent progress up until then. I can still squat and deadlift and do many other accessories but I am paying much more attention to what my joints and ligaments are telling me.