ZONE CAPONE was a part of Piana's 5% army, lol. Apparently ran into some health problems so he filled his body with oil and tattoos instead of drugs. Check his IG 
I'm 40 and I warm up for up to 2 hours before heavy deads or squats, no joke
40 is just around the corner for me. And I full well expect to warm up for north of half an hour - how close I come to two hours will depend on how I feel in four or so years when I hit 40. So far, so good.
The moderate approach to weight training has worked well for me. I feel good, and I believe that I picked the right sport in strongman - other sports definitely require younger men. Although remarkably, Usain Bolt was beaten by a 35-year-old in the 100m sprint earlier this year.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/athletics/2017/08/05/usain-bolts-last-individual-race-live-london-2017-100m-updatesThat article acts as if PEDs are some horrifying thing. Are PEDs really tested for adequately in sprinting?
I'm of the impression that drugs are in all sports...with USADA in the UFC now, PED use appears to be on the decline, but at the end of the day, are people seriously shocked by the fact that PEDs are in sports? I just take it as a given. Furthermore, testing seems to reward those who get away with drugs, rather than prevent people from using them. In other words, those with the best coaches/chemists will ultimately have an advantage. How is that fair?
how does talking about this dim witted black man enrich your life?
Fair question - I guess to me it's ultimately about a deeper issue; that being that we will eventually face aging, disease, the loss of loved ones, and death. I myself want to look to models around me that have been best at coping with those things, so that I can handle them well when I face them myself. Seeing Ronnie go from the king of the jungle to a person who has had difficulty walking at times has been a bit hard even for me to watch. I can't fathom how he has been coping with it.
That's why I said that Shawn Ray is a much better model for how to deal with retirement from an activity so dependent on youth, and aging. Shawn has focused on family, and the word of The Lord. I respect that a lot - and I say that as a [still, currently at least] non-religious person.
As I said, we all face these things right? So why not learn from the mistakes of others, and not make those mistakes ourselves? If there is something to learn from Ronnie it's that it is perfectly fine to put on the brakes at some point! We don't need to be giving 100% all of the time. Maybe I'll make 2018 the year that I win Strongman Nationals in my weight class, then finally move on to a more moderate program - with added cardio, more warming up [as Van_Bilderass says he does], and stuff like that. I do believe that I have the potential to win Nationals, and I don't want to be 50 years old asking myself what I could have done had I tried harder. On the flip side, I don't want to be in a wheelchair regretting the time that I decided to train way too hard in order to ultimately just win a plastic trophy.
In other words - as usual - I relate the experiences of Ronnie Coleman to myself, and try to learn from him. So yeah, it's all about me once again.
Sorry.
