Cheers!
Holding on to your legs is the greatest challenge past 50. Especially late 50s. I firmly believe if you don’t have decent sized legs by 40, you won’t get them. You can keep them looking good though. Smaller but still looking like proper leg shapes.
I had big legs in my 20s, my only saving grace. In fact, the judges at my first show told me I was “leg heavy”. Not to many novices hear that I bet.
I trained with lots of different guys back then, including Olympians. Back then you could get a “pick up” training partner just by interacting with anyone else about to train legs. EVERY guy I trained legs with in 1987-90 was squatting at least two more plates than me. The self-imposed peer pressure was through the roof. Once I said I felt bad, those guys have to remove all that weight before I could do my sets. Their response was “Man, it’s no big deal. Now shut the fuck up and grind out your set.”
I wish there was a way today’s gym bro’s could experience how awesome it was in the gyms back then.
Today it is so bad I am almost ready to quit.
The other day I go stand looking down the dumbbell racks at my gym here in Cabo. It is probably 50’ long with 8 different “stations” including 5 benches. EVERY single station had some cunt sitting in it, leaning forward and texting. I wanted to take a pic because it looked like a meme. But I didn’t have ready access to my phone because….I WAS THERE to work out.
