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Experience: I am a 91-year-old bodybuilder
'At 85 I had a crisis. I looked at myself in the mirror, and saw an old man. I was overweight, my posture was terrible and there was skin hanging off me. I looked like a wreck'
Charles Eugster
The Guardian, Saturday 2 April 2011
Charles Eugster
(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/About/General/2011/3/15/1300198585715/Charles-Eugster-008.jpg)
'I'm not chasing youthfulness. I'm chasing health.' Photograph: Gian Paul Lozza for the Guardian
My personal trainer and I are always getting into arguments about what part of my body needs the most work. I'm not happy with my abs – I have the remains of a small spare tyre – but she says my bottom is a catastrophe because it's so flat. What we both agree on is that bodies can be remodelled, no matter how old you are.
I was a very sickly child. From the age of six I had constant headaches and chronic tonsilitis. I became pale, sluggish and my growth was slow. I remember noticing one day that my best friend, who was a year younger than me, was slightly taller and that I was very upset about it.
At 13, I had my tonsils removed and as my health improved, everything changed. I shot up and suddenly I was full of energy. I thought back to myself as a frail, sickly boy, and vowed never to be like that again. I took up boxing, rowing and rugby. Staying fit and strong became my priority.
After school I trained to be a dentist, but sport remained an important hobby. I only once let myself go. As I crept into my 40s, I adopted my wife's sedentary lifestyle. We spent a lot of time doing nothing. Inevitably, my blood pressure plummeted and one day I felt a sharp pain in my legs – only to discover the dark, earthworm-like patterns of varicose veins across my calves. It was my first brush with old age, and I didn't like it. Immediately I resumed rowing to stay fit.
Life went on. My wife and I divorced. At 60, I discovered veteran's rowing and started competing internationally, eventually winning 36 gold medals. I'm not a particularly talented sportsman, but I've always been a great trier. At 75, many of my friends began to pass away. People were getting older around me, but I was only just ready to retire. I carried on rowing and publishing a dentistry newsletter until I was 82.
Then at 85 I had a crisis. I looked at myself in the mirror one day, and saw an old man. I was overweight, my posture was terrible and there was skin hanging off me where muscle used to be. I looked like a wreck. I started to consider the fact that I was probably going to die soon. I knew I was supposed to slow down, but I'm vain. I missed my old body and wanted to be able to strut across the beach, turning heads.
I was already rowing six times a week, and there didn't seem any harm in pushing myself a bit harder to rebuild my muscles. So in my late-80s I joined a bodybuilding club.
There's no research into bodybuilding for the over-80s, so it's been an experiment. With weight-lifting and protein shakes, my body began to change. It became broader, more v-shaped, and my shoulders and biceps became more defined. People began to comment on how much younger I looked, and my new muscular frame drew a lot of admiring glances from women.
Everything I learned was tailored to help my body cope with old age. I took up judo to teach me how to fall properly. My circulation and posture improved, and I was told that there was a chance more muscle mass could protect my brain from Alzheimer's. I stopped thinking about dying. As I approached 90, my focus was on getting my body back.
In 2008, I signed up for my first championship. I was nervous, but although I was the oldest contestant by around 20 years, everyone was very welcoming. I got higher scores than all the women taking part, and a lot of the men. Then, at last year's event in Germany, I triumphed, scoring higher than any contestant in any age category for my 57 dips, 61 chin-ups, 50 push-ups and 48 abdominal crunches, each in 45 seconds. As I'm over 70, they did make allowances – I could do the push-ups on my knees, for example – but I proved I wasn't past it.
I'm not chasing youthfulness. I'm chasing health. People have been brainwashed to think that after you're 65, you're finished. We're told that old age is a continuous state of decline, and that we should stop working, slow down and prepare to die. I disagree. To me, a 65-year-old is young. I turn 92 this year. It is a frightening prospect – the law of averages is against me, and, yes, one day something will happen and that will be it. But until that day comes, I'm going to carry on working on my abs.
• As told to Rhianon Howells
Do you have an experience to share? Email experience@guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/apr/02/i-am-a-90-year-old-bodybuilder?INTCMP=SRCH
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someone should invite him here :)
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Skinny-fat twink.
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very inspiring
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thats not Hitler
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Where is the after pic?
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Needs to get on some of the good stuff.
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There you go. Something to be said for natural training.
Who'd you rather be at his age?
Him, or some guy who abused roids to win some stupid contests for a paltry amount of money?
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There you go. Something to be said for natural training.
Who'd you rather be at his age?
Him, or some guy who abused roids to win some stupid contests for a paltry amount of money?
Ahem, AND a plastic trophy.
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Gotta suck to be 85 and have a mid-life crisis. Fuck we humans are ridiculous!
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Whatever. Markus Ruhl will live longer.
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Experience: I am a 91-year-old bodybuilder
'At 85 I had a crisis. I looked at myself in the mirror, and saw an old man. I was overweight, my posture was terrible and there was skin hanging off me. I looked like a wreck'
Charles Eugster
The Guardian, Saturday 2 April 2011
Charles Eugster
(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/About/General/2011/3/15/1300198585715/Charles-Eugster-008.jpg)
'I'm not chasing youthfulness. I'm chasing health.' Photograph: Gian Paul Lozza for the Guardian
My personal trainer and I are always getting into arguments about what part of my body needs the most work. I'm not happy with my abs – I have the remains of a small spare tyre – but she says my bottom is a catastrophe because it's so flat. What we both agree on is that bodies can be remodelled, no matter how old you are.
I was a very sickly child. From the age of six I had constant headaches and chronic tonsilitis. I became pale, sluggish and my growth was slow. I remember noticing one day that my best friend, who was a year younger than me, was slightly taller and that I was very upset about it.
At 13, I had my tonsils removed and as my health improved, everything changed. I shot up and suddenly I was full of energy. I thought back to myself as a frail, sickly boy, and vowed never to be like that again. I took up boxing, rowing and rugby. Staying fit and strong became my priority.
After school I trained to be a dentist, but sport remained an important hobby. I only once let myself go. As I crept into my 40s, I adopted my wife's sedentary lifestyle. We spent a lot of time doing nothing. Inevitably, my blood pressure plummeted and one day I felt a sharp pain in my legs – only to discover the dark, earthworm-like patterns of varicose veins across my calves. It was my first brush with old age, and I didn't like it. Immediately I resumed rowing to stay fit.
Life went on. My wife and I divorced. At 60, I discovered veteran's rowing and started competing internationally, eventually winning 36 gold medals. I'm not a particularly talented sportsman, but I've always been a great trier. At 75, many of my friends began to pass away. People were getting older around me, but I was only just ready to retire. I carried on rowing and publishing a dentistry newsletter until I was 82.
Then at 85 I had a crisis. I looked at myself in the mirror one day, and saw an old man. I was overweight, my posture was terrible and there was skin hanging off me where muscle used to be. I looked like a wreck. I started to consider the fact that I was probably going to die soon. I knew I was supposed to slow down, but I'm vain. I missed my old body and wanted to be able to strut across the beach, turning heads.
I was already rowing six times a week, and there didn't seem any harm in pushing myself a bit harder to rebuild my muscles. So in my late-80s I joined a bodybuilding club.
There's no research into bodybuilding for the over-80s, so it's been an experiment. With weight-lifting and protein shakes, my body began to change. It became broader, more v-shaped, and my shoulders and biceps became more defined. People began to comment on how much younger I looked, and my new muscular frame drew a lot of admiring glances from women.
Everything I learned was tailored to help my body cope with old age. I took up judo to teach me how to fall properly. My circulation and posture improved, and I was told that there was a chance more muscle mass could protect my brain from Alzheimer's. I stopped thinking about dying. As I approached 90, my focus was on getting my body back.
In 2008, I signed up for my first championship. I was nervous, but although I was the oldest contestant by around 20 years, everyone was very welcoming. I got higher scores than all the women taking part, and a lot of the men. Then, at last year's event in Germany, I triumphed, scoring higher than any contestant in any age category for my 57 dips, 61 chin-ups, 50 push-ups and 48 abdominal crunches, each in 45 seconds. As I'm over 70, they did make allowances – I could do the push-ups on my knees, for example – but I proved I wasn't past it.
I'm not chasing youthfulness. I'm chasing health. People have been brainwashed to think that after you're 65, you're finished. We're told that old age is a continuous state of decline, and that we should stop working, slow down and prepare to die. I disagree. To me, a 65-year-old is young. I turn 92 this year. It is a frightening prospect – the law of averages is against me, and, yes, one day something will happen and that will be it. But until that day comes, I'm going to carry on working on my abs.
• As told to Rhianon Howells
Do you have an experience to share? Email experience@guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/apr/02/i-am-a-90-year-old-bodybuilder?INTCMP=SRCH
He actually looks better than pumpster, fatpanda and goodrum
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(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/About/General/2011/3/15/1300198585715/Charles-Eugster-008.jpg)
This fella NOT natural, geritola, prune-juiceona,,, and most of all DEPENDSONAAAAA!!!!!!!
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Translation:
"At 85 years old I got on HRT and started lifting. Now I feel much stronger and I can get it up again. Winning."
Bodybuilding is all drugs. This story is all drugs, if you dig beneath the natural bulshit they always push in there.
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This fella NOT natural, geritola, prune-juiceona,,, and most of all DEPENDSONAAAAA!!!!!!!
Dont forget denturona, walkerona, catheterona...
Looks like to be a heavy abuser of oral pills too. UP TO 15 seperate orals taking 4-5 times A DAY!!
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I triumphed, scoring higher than any contestant in any age category for my 57 dips, 61 chin-ups, 50 push-ups and 48 abdominal crunches, each in 45 seconds.
bullshit on the dips, chins and probably the pushups too
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Wonder what Bodybuilder Lex Reeves thinks of this twink?
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someone should invite him here :)
He'd have a heart attack.
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Problem number one is that he's being "personal trained" by a skirt. As a result he looks like one of those bicyclists with the hot pink spandex shorts that puts his behind up in the air while he's blocking traffic. What he needs is to squat, bench press, chin, military press, barbell curl and french curl three days per week. Combine this with a gallon of milk per day, plenty of meat, eggs and peanut butter sandwiches.
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That's not Joe Weider
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There's hope for V. Basil yet.
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That's not Joe Weider
He's got more muscle than Joe Weider, the trainer of champions...but Joe has a trump card...he's probably a billionaire
His brother Ben Weider died a billionaire...
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Looks good. Looks healthy. Hope I am as healthy looking as he is when I am his age.....he's got twenty-four years on me.
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Vince Goodrum should take some lessons from him.
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Tier 27 all the way
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Looks good for a mere youngster!
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Good boy.
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61 chin ups in 45 seconds?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? ::)
The WORLD RECORD is something like 64 chin ups in 60 seconds. This old guy took up bodybuilding a few weeks ago, and he's already shattering world records yo...
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61 chin ups in 45 seconds?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? ::)
The WORLD RECORD is something like 64 chin ups in 60 seconds. This old guy took up bodybuilding a few weeks ago, and he's already shattering world records yo...
They were assisted.
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He must've done them on a zero-gravity machine.
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Clearly jacked and tanned probably got a bunch of hoes hanging around the house.
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We have now discovered that ILS was invented in 1920.
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Well done and good luck to the guy. Probably trains harder than some of the bloated guys on here. Looks better than blathertwigvagfart for a start.
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Once a douche, always a douche!
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looks like shit... ;D
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"and my new muscular frame drew a lot of admiring glances from women" ??? ??? ???
(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/About/General/2011/3/15/1300198585715/Charles-Eugster-008.jpg)
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People say you have to respect older people but this guy is an asshole, "I'm a bodybuilder" "my 57 dips, 61 chin-ups, 50 push-ups and 48 abdominal crunches, each in 45 seconds." Wtf? ???
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Can you imagine the size of this guys head when he was 20
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"and my new muscular frame drew a lot of admiring glances from women" ??? ??? ???
(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/About/General/2011/3/15/1300198585715/Charles-Eugster-008.jpg)
Great grand daddy of pumpster?
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monster arms
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Taking care of his physique dilemmas would not be a problem... if he wanted to do what most client dont.
Listen. Apply. Achieve.
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Experience: I am a 91-year-old bodybuilder
'At 85 I had a crisis. I looked at myself in the mirror, and saw an old man. I was overweight, my posture was terrible and there was skin hanging off me. I looked like a wreck'
Charles Eugster
The Guardian, Saturday 2 April 2011
Charles Eugster
(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/About/General/2011/3/15/1300198585715/Charles-Eugster-008.jpg)
'I'm not chasing youthfulness. I'm chasing health.' Photograph: Gian Paul Lozza for the Guardian
My personal trainer and I are always getting into arguments about what part of my body needs the most work. I'm not happy with my abs – I have the remains of a small spare tyre – but she says my bottom is a catastrophe because it's so flat. What we both agree on is that bodies can be remodelled, no matter how old you are.
I was a very sickly child. From the age of six I had constant headaches and chronic tonsilitis. I became pale, sluggish and my growth was slow. I remember noticing one day that my best friend, who was a year younger than me, was slightly taller and that I was very upset about it.
At 13, I had my tonsils removed and as my health improved, everything changed. I shot up and suddenly I was full of energy. I thought back to myself as a frail, sickly boy, and vowed never to be like that again. I took up boxing, rowing and rugby. Staying fit and strong became my priority.
After school I trained to be a dentist, but sport remained an important hobby. I only once let myself go. As I crept into my 40s, I adopted my wife's sedentary lifestyle. We spent a lot of time doing nothing. Inevitably, my blood pressure plummeted and one day I felt a sharp pain in my legs – only to discover the dark, earthworm-like patterns of varicose veins across my calves. It was my first brush with old age, and I didn't like it. Immediately I resumed rowing to stay fit.
Life went on. My wife and I divorced. At 60, I discovered veteran's rowing and started competing internationally, eventually winning 36 gold medals. I'm not a particularly talented sportsman, but I've always been a great trier. At 75, many of my friends began to pass away. People were getting older around me, but I was only just ready to retire. I carried on rowing and publishing a dentistry newsletter until I was 82.
Then at 85 I had a crisis. I looked at myself in the mirror one day, and saw an old man. I was overweight, my posture was terrible and there was skin hanging off me where muscle used to be. I looked like a wreck. I started to consider the fact that I was probably going to die soon. I knew I was supposed to slow down, but I'm vain. I missed my old body and wanted to be able to strut across the beach, turning heads.
I was already rowing six times a week, and there didn't seem any harm in pushing myself a bit harder to rebuild my muscles. So in my late-80s I joined a bodybuilding club.
There's no research into bodybuilding for the over-80s, so it's been an experiment. With weight-lifting and protein shakes, my body began to change. It became broader, more v-shaped, and my shoulders and biceps became more defined. People began to comment on how much younger I looked, and my new muscular frame drew a lot of admiring glances from women.
Everything I learned was tailored to help my body cope with old age. I took up judo to teach me how to fall properly. My circulation and posture improved, and I was told that there was a chance more muscle mass could protect my brain from Alzheimer's. I stopped thinking about dying. As I approached 90, my focus was on getting my body back.
In 2008, I signed up for my first championship. I was nervous, but although I was the oldest contestant by around 20 years, everyone was very welcoming. I got higher scores than all the women taking part, and a lot of the men. Then, at last year's event in Germany, I triumphed, scoring higher than any contestant in any age category for my 57 dips, 61 chin-ups, 50 push-ups and 48 abdominal crunches, each in 45 seconds. As I'm over 70, they did make allowances – I could do the push-ups on my knees, for example – but I proved I wasn't past it.
I'm not chasing youthfulness. I'm chasing health. People have been brainwashed to think that after you're 65, you're finished. We're told that old age is a continuous state of decline, and that we should stop working, slow down and prepare to die. I disagree. To me, a 65-year-old is young. I turn 92 this year. It is a frightening prospect – the law of averages is against me, and, yes, one day something will happen and that will be it. But until that day comes, I'm going to carry on working on my abs.
• As told to Rhianon Howells
Do you have an experience to share? Email experience@guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/apr/02/i-am-a-90-year-old-bodybuilder?INTCMP=SRCH
frank zane looking hale and hearty.
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61 chin ups in 45 seconds?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? ::)
The WORLD RECORD is something like 64 chin ups in 60 seconds. This old guy took up bodybuilding a few weeks ago, and he's already shattering world records yo...
He took his teeth out to weigh less...