I always wondered what it would be like to be old age pension age. Well, folks, I don't feel any different so these are still the good old days. Being a gym owner I am self-employed so don't qualify for that pension or any other perks.
Like most people who age are getting older I was going to try to get in shape for the occasion. However, I competed in athletics last March and ended up with sore knees and elbows from the hammer throw which I had never done before. I won the javelin, discus and shot against almost no one else. It pays to pick the right year to compete so that the best guys are in different categories. I learned this trick from my mate Melvin Goodrum! My knees and elbows have healed now. Takes longer to heal as we age.
The interesting thing is the muscles still respond to hypertrophy training. I posted my ideas here and that thread broke the record for a serious theory discussion on this gossip board. Why some moderators feel I have an obligation to post details of what I believe here is rather ironic. No one else does that and I might put my ideas into a book in the near future. It is possible to grow big muscles rapidly at just about any age. That is the closest to the fountain of youth we are going to find. I don't believe in supplements and drugs so the iron pills are the only ones I take. Well, I hardly use free weights and am still amazed at the dumbbells who think they are better. Old beliefs just never die in bodybuilding. I prefer to cast false theories aside instead of taking them to my grave.
One thing about being a gym owner who has his own engineering factory. I hardly get time to train because there are always things to do at the gym. This week I have to modify a huge Nautilus double chest machine. I will see if I can get rid of those blasted chains that Arthur Jones stuck us with. His machines still work but Arthur is no longer with us. Some of my machines should be still working in a gym somewhere in perhaps 200 years.
Thanks to all who posted good wishes.
