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Re: lost muscle or shrunk muscle?
« Reply #25 on: August 24, 2025, 08:00:36 PM »
I posted this 5 mins ago with on my FB. I took a couple pics about two hours ago but this piece of shit platform won’t let the pics upload.

My days of competing ended in 2019 when I won the NPC California Championships (Masters) making me the oldest to ever win that show in its history at 57. Today I have zero regrets and absolutely no desire to compete again.

That being said, I train legs about once a month in the gym. The rest of the time I’ll do rucks 2-3x week with 40-50lbs on heavy ruck days 3-5 miles at a time. But as age catches up with everyone so does the sarcopenia (loss of muscle). But doing this routine, it allows me to maintain most of my lean muscle. You can’t beat Father Time but you can sure give him hell
I think too that we are finding that you can actually fight father time a lot longer than people in the past thought.  With new research and advancements in every aspect of life I think people will stay stronger and bigger longer and longer as decades go by. 

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Re: lost muscle or shrunk muscle?
« Reply #26 on: August 24, 2025, 08:39:25 PM »
I think too that we are finding that you can actually fight father time a lot longer than people in the past thought.  With new research and advancements in every aspect of life I think people will stay stronger and bigger longer and longer as decades go by.

Lots of unnaturally horny old men walking around. The ladies will have to get on TRT too or the men will go nuts.

Not supplementation related but my friend told me a sort of "funny" story about his grandpa. He had supposedly beat grandma because she didn't want sex. I think he was like 85. A while back my mom sent me a video of her 93 year old neighbor ladyfriend talking. She'd had a couple of glasses of wine. Said some sex would be nice, only problem was men over 70 couldn't get it up.

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Re: lost muscle or shrunk muscle?
« Reply #27 on: August 24, 2025, 09:04:30 PM »
Muscle is the bodies amino acid storage pool. Fat cells store triglyceride muscle cells store amino acids. Eat more protein and workout, your legs will return.

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Re: lost muscle or shrunk muscle?
« Reply #28 on: August 25, 2025, 12:52:07 AM »
Lots of unnaturally horny old men walking around. The ladies will have to get on TRT too or the men will go nuts.

Not supplementation related but my friend told me a sort of "funny" story about his grandpa. He had supposedly beat grandma because she didn't want sex. I think he was like 85. A while back my mom sent me a video of her 93 year old neighbor ladyfriend talking. She'd had a couple of glasses of wine. Said some sex would be nice, only problem was men over 70 couldn't get it up.
Men have to be aroused to get it up. Who can be aroused by a 93 year old woman?

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Re: lost muscle or shrunk muscle?
« Reply #29 on: August 25, 2025, 01:27:02 AM »
Men have to be aroused to get it up. Who can be aroused by a 93 year old woman?
a 93 year old man

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Re: lost muscle or shrunk muscle?
« Reply #30 on: August 25, 2025, 01:37:40 AM »
Men have to be aroused to get it up. Who can be aroused by a 93 year old woman?

Close your eyes

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Re: lost muscle or shrunk muscle?
« Reply #31 on: August 25, 2025, 01:48:46 AM »
I’ve understood/heard/read that fat cell number increases up to two years of age and that muscle cell number could increase even in puberty.

Broscience mostly though. Haven’t really looked into it.🤷‍♂️

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Re: lost muscle or shrunk muscle?
« Reply #32 on: August 25, 2025, 04:40:48 AM »
I’ve understood/heard/read that fat cell number increases up to two years of age and that muscle cell number could increase even in puberty.

Broscience mostly though. Haven’t really looked into it.🤷‍♂️
thanks Jeff!!   LOL   ;D

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Re: lost muscle or shrunk muscle?
« Reply #33 on: August 25, 2025, 07:56:26 AM »
a 93 year old man
I doubt it. I'm sure the 93 year old man is watching young women in porn if he knows how to access it online.

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Re: lost muscle or shrunk muscle?
« Reply #34 on: August 25, 2025, 10:20:52 AM »

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Re: lost muscle or shrunk muscle?
« Reply #35 on: August 25, 2025, 11:28:05 AM »

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Re: lost muscle or shrunk muscle?
« Reply #36 on: August 25, 2025, 11:58:39 AM »
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Re: lost muscle or shrunk muscle?
« Reply #37 on: August 25, 2025, 01:11:00 PM »
Men have to be aroused to get it up. Who can be aroused by a 93 year old woman?

A 103 year old man.

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Re: lost muscle or shrunk muscle?
« Reply #38 on: August 25, 2025, 01:14:29 PM »
A 103 year old man.

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Re: lost muscle or shrunk muscle?
« Reply #39 on: August 25, 2025, 01:38:18 PM »
Lost muscle size / reduced size.  Simple.

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Re: lost muscle or shrunk muscle?
« Reply #40 on: August 26, 2025, 07:46:00 AM »
A 103 year old man.
Robbing the cradle.

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Re: lost muscle or shrunk muscle?
« Reply #41 on: August 26, 2025, 01:26:23 PM »
Inactive muscle can be awoken shockingly fast. Especially since muscle is mostly water; thenn add in some inflammation from a new lifting riutine and inches can be added overnight. Still there's protein loss, actual contractile, dry tissue loss. Milos claimed Flex once went from tiny and untrained to possible Arnold champ in 3 weeks! But iirc he landed in the hospital that year for kidney failure, again, and couldn't step on stage. No wonder, dangerous to inflate that fast with bad kidneys.

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Re: lost muscle or shrunk muscle?
« Reply #42 on: August 26, 2025, 03:48:26 PM »
I posted this 5 mins ago with on my FB. I took a couple pics about two hours ago but this piece of shit platform won’t let the pics upload.

My days of competing ended in 2019 when I won the NPC California Championships (Masters) making me the oldest to ever win that show in its history at 57. Today I have zero regrets and absolutely no desire to compete again.

That being said, I train legs about once a month in the gym. The rest of the time I’ll do rucks 2-3x week with 40-50lbs on heavy ruck days 3-5 miles at a time. But as age catches up with everyone so does the sarcopenia (loss of muscle). But doing this routine, it allows me to maintain most of my lean muscle. You can’t beat Father Time but you can sure give him hell

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