Why are fitness gurus obsessed with their age?

[TheShape.]

It would take a book. Just a few off the top of my head with these bro advices. Drop the bench press. Use dumbbells. Don't think the squat is mandatory. The decline is your shoulders friend. Never do chest flies. Use a full range of motion even if it means less weight.  It's all about stimulating the muscle and not showing off how much you can lift.  Never do the pouring pitcher motion doing dumbbell delt laterals. Keep your thumbs up. Do tricep work with precision and higher weights. If any exercise hurts, dump it and never look back. Always include cardio exercise. If you think you can skip it for decades then pick it up you will be in for a world of hurt when you go for a run. Don't grind your joints to dust doing show off stuff like putting a million pounds on a leg press then barely bending your knees. Stay away from steroids for so many reasons but a good one is that it increases your strength faster than your joints can take. You can get away with it when your young but rapidly increasing your strength in a three month cycle can be hard on the joints. Work on flexibility especially for your shoulders. Body weight exercises are not beginner exercises and they compliment the most advanced routines. Be wary of taking advice from drug users. Ask them to give you advice when they are truly clean for four months. Willing to be you won't want their advice because they will look like crap.

I’m still a natural, but I still feel my best gains are from basic strength movements like the bench press and deadlifts, my long legs make squats tough so I prefer to use the leg press. Of course I use good form on these lifts to negate any possible injuries but I never saw good results from these really lightweight “pump” routines. I will say though most of my sets are 5-15 reps depending on the movement and body part. I never ever go heavy on my shoulders. As for cardio I just work fast in the gym, and in the spring/summer I’ll walk or bike a few miles, I keep a good 10% bf all year round.

[TheShape.]

No. I'm just surprised to see someone under 30 (that isnt Flintstones) that has been a member here for so long.

I stumbled upon this place even before I joined and was a lurker, I think Flintstones actually 21 at the time.

[Dave D]

I stumbled upon this place even before I joined and was a lurker, I think Flintstones actually 21 at the time.

Sure, that’s normal.  Are you under 30? I’m just curious how many long time (5 years or longer) members are under 30. I’m sure it’s not many. I’d bet there are more posters in Primes age group than there are members under 30.

I can also be completely off base.

[TheShape.]

Sure, that’s normal.  Are you under 30? I’m just curious how many long time (5 years or longer) members are under 30. I’m sure it’s not many. I’d bet there are more posters in Primes age group than there are members under 30.

I can also be completely off base.

I turned 26 a few months ago.

[Dave D]

I turned 26 a few months ago.

My bad bro I realize you already posted that. What I meant was do you know other members under 30 on here.

It doesn’t really matter, if you’re not trolling.  Glad you’re here.

[joswift]

^This! Most of them look like shit. And from recent reports, will become the fattest generation ever, lol


https://www.bbc.com/news/health-43195977

I sometimes look at the guys I work with and they appear like old men, fucks sake Im one of the oldest there..

[Grape Ape]

I sometimes look at the guys I work with

outed

[GymnJuice]

I may be the youngest getbigger here at 26, any lifting or life advice from you gen x boomers? I feel like I still haven’t hit my prime.

Get a vasectomy and find a career where you can make good money but still have free time to enjoy it.

[Hulkotron]

Most guys unless they are lazy slobs can have 90% percent of their strength, endurance, looks and cardio ability till around 55. The first thing to go is power. That's sprinting, jumping and power cleaning type lift ability. After 55 seems to be the rough year when you really notice looking through training journals and running ledgers that you can't do what you use to do.  Get close to 65 and it humbles you that you're getting old.

In my youth I could string together 5 something miles running and I was a sprinter and not a distance runner. For guys who are not runners for context set your treadmill for 11 mph and run a couple of miles. Every back day I would use 405lbs for my last set of deadlifts and 225lbs for my last set of power cleans. I completely acknowledge these things aren't a big deal but just to say I wasn't a slug training for a fitness workout.

As you age you have to constantly find ways to push your body without damaging it. I have been training hard since I was a teenager. If only I knew that joint problems would be a thing in my 60's I would have made a lot of changes in how I trained.  Just one example that worked for me. The decline press is my shoulder's friend now for pec work.  One last one is the barbell squat is out but I'm getting better results from the leg press, machine squats and dumbbell squats without back aggravation.

I remember when I was 40 I wanted credit for working out hard at that "advanced" age. Now I see that is a prime time age. Maybe not for an elite athlete but for a gym rat it certainly is.

Are you saying you regularly ran five miles in ~27 minutes on sprint training?  That's extraordinarily impressive and unusual if so.  Most people would have to train pretty long and hard on endurance running-type training to have that kind of fitness, if they could do it at all.

[TheShape.]

Get a vasectomy and find a career where you can make good money but still have free time to enjoy it.

Never, I’m bringing white children into this world if it’s the last thing I do.

[Matt]

I'll be 40 in December, and I don't feel any decline in gym workouts. I believe strength is the last thing to leave an athlete.

I do think I can hit a 365 bench this year at 175...IF the gyms f*cking open here.

My only concern is I feel I am somewhat more prone to injury, and will need more time warming up, to hit my max lifts.

I also feel that I require slightly more time to recover.

As oldtimer1 said, I think 40 may well be a gym rat's prime.

[Bevo]

John meadows is 48 but looks 60+

Lee Priest is 48 but looks like a fat lesbian

[BBSSchlemiel]

Never, I’m bringing white children into this world if it’s the last thing I do.

Good, do it. Only mentally unhealthy men get vasectomies before they have kids.

[Humble Narcissist]

John meadows is 48 but looks 60+

Lee Priest is 48 but looks like a fat lesbian

  He does.

[tatoo]

I stumbled upon this place even before I joined and was a lurker, I think Flintstones actually 21 at the time.

you were a libtard before you joined? fuck, thank god you came around bro.... one libcuck lurker is enough around here!!

[TheShape.]

you were a libtard before you joined? fuck, thank god you came around bro.... one libcuck lurker is enough around here!!

Lurker! Not a liberal!

[monsterman500]

I used to be satisfied and used to say "Im not bad for 48"
Now I want to be able to say "I look better than most 20 year olds"

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But you don´t you silly old fool 

[BayGBM]

I may be the youngest getbigger here at 26, any lifting or life advice from you gen x boomers? I feel like I still haven’t hit my prime.

Finish your education... don’t waste your money on fluff; save and invest; buy real estate on the dips to live in or rental property.  Pair up with a companion who does these things.  One day you will wake up at 40, 50, or 60 and either have a lot to show for your choices... or you’ll be living with regret... perhaps renting a room somewhere... and wondering why life didn’t turn out the way you had hoped.  A little discipline goes a very long way. 

Learn from Tom’s mistake.
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=281208.0

[Humble Narcissist]

Finish your education... don’t waste your money on fluff; save and invest; buy real estate on the dips to live in or rental property.  Pair up with a companion who does these things.  One day you will wake up at 40, 50, or 60 and either have a lot to show for your choices... or you’ll be living with regret... perhaps renting a room somewhere... and wondering why life didn’t turn out the way you had hoped.  A little discipline goes a very long way. 

Learn from Tom’s mistake.
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=281208.0

Or do like most pro bodybuilders and live in the now and have fun.  In 20 years when you are broke, live in a studio apartment and need money for health problems, start a gofundme page.

[TheShape.]

Or do like most pro bodybuilders and live in the now and have fun.  In 20 years when you are broke, live in a studio apartment and need money for health problems, start a gofundme page.

My retirement plan is to live in a van in the golds parking lot. #whateverittakes

[pamith]

I'm turning 44 soon, is this bad?

[Humble Narcissist]

My retirement plan is to live in a van in the golds parking lot. #whateverittakes

You will have to fight Charles Glass for that spot.  That's his territory.

[Dave D]

I'm turning 44 soon, is this bad?

Yes. You shouldn’t have made it past 32.

[pamith]

Yes. You shouldn’t have made it past 32.

Bro...

[BayGBM]

Or do like most pro bodybuilders and live in the now and have fun.  In 20 years when you are broke, live in a studio apartment and need money for health problems, start a gofundme page.

Touché! 

There was a big guy at my gym who caught my eye a few years back.  Eventually we became friendly... at the time he was about 47.  Turns out he rents a room in a house with five guys and complained to me all the time about the noise, the pets, the lack of privacy, guys eating his food in the shared fridge, blah blah blah.  I told him he needed to make a plan to move to a better venue and that when he was ready I would help him on moving day. Many months later he took me up on my offer.  The day I helped him move, I learned he was moving from a house shared with five guys into a house shared with four guys.  Progress?  Barely.  But with no real skills or career it was the best he could do.