Fear no man, Pellius! I merely give you a possible way to do something interesting and beneficial at the same time. The word 'fitness' is somewhat controversial because we can always ask fit for what? If you use physical culture to prepare you for any attack or calamity then good for you. I don't knock others who do extreme things. Gives those people a purpose and direction. All I am arguing is that hypertrophy is possible in old age. This isn't what we believed in the past and many today still don't believe it. Why not do an experiment with your own body to see what the reality is? Of course, no additional size will appear unless one eats enough to make that possible.
The awful truth about hypertrophy training for advanced trainees is it is brutal and taxing. Not at all something one looks forward to. Especially when you have to keep pushing the limits regarding reps and resistance. Always towards progression. Yes, a lot to go through for very little gain. However, it is nice to look at most males out there and know you have bigger arms than them and are vastly stronger as well. I have a friend who hasn't seen me in a couple of years. He was astonished at the size of my triceps. So there you are gains are still possible even when you are 76 years old.
Do you ever listen to yourself? Do you step outside of yourself for some self-reflection and ponder what you say? How many times you contradict yourself or say something that is just patently wrong and has been proven wrong by real scientific result and real-world observable results.
"Pellius does all manner of different things but stays the same. Whatever is the purpose of doing that?"Then you say even after I gave you credit for cutting back my protein intake by over 50%.
"Seems to me Pellius is too set in his ways re training and diet.
"because of repeating the same old workouts."With any moving system differences occur which means you cannot always repeat what you did before.""Pellius have you tried cutting out most of your training? "Even after I said that I train twice a week and hour per session. You're sound like Mentzer later in life when he took Jones' concept of infrequent training to an extreme.
"I retrain the muscle even though sore. In this way, I hope to keep the muscle in a state of steady growth. I know this works."No you don't. It never works. When your muscle is sore it's still in a catabolic state not in a state of growth. It's still broken down. You have to heal it first before you can build upon that. You watched the vid where John Meadows explains this. It has been proven scientifically, and it comports with common sense. "You have to fill the hole first before you can make it into a hill. You relate some unproven experiment where you say your arms have gotten larger. If this was such a breakthrough where are the pics? Anybody can get larger arms by just gaining weight. My neighbor, a woman, has arms that easily exceed 20 inches. In contrast, I have proven my "hypertrophy theory" and put on real lean substantial muscle with no change in body weight by constantly finding new ways to increase intensity and stimulate the muscle and always -- ALWAYS -- being sure I was fully recovered and any latent soreness was completely gone.
"Try to gain some size. It is not a given that as we age we lose muscle"It's really puzzling that someone I consider a thinker and intelligent could make such a colossally ignorant statement. One that is proven wrong by real scientific evidence with billions of real-world examples of how, no matter what you do, you will grow old weak, lose bodily and cognitive function, and yes, lose muscle, and then you die. You lose so much credibility when you make a claim that everybody knows, observes, and will experience, is wrong. It just goes to show that when someone has an agenda they will even lie to themselves than seek the, in this case, obvious truth.
"So please explain why you need those brutal workouts?"I'll let you explain it.
"The awful truth about hypertrophy training for advanced trainees is it is brutal and taxing. Not at all something one looks forward to. Especially when you have to keep pushing the limits regarding reps and resistance. Always towards progression."Everybody clearly sees and understands the point I am making here. Your inconsistencies and torrential flow of illogic. But you don't. The sad part is that you will go to your grave believing you were right and the rest of the world was wrong.
You may get away with lying to yourself but nobody here -- absolutely nobody -- buys into your nonsense.