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Who else hitting pr’s in there 40s

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CoachCabo said:
I guess there comes a point where you see that longevity trumps personal ya ya's.
Already a competent motorcyclists, riding since I was 5, I discovered super bike racing at 46. I thought I was too old to start. I proved myself wrong.I had an amazing first season and had 11 podiums. (Quick learner.) It was great until...it wasn't. I wasn't too old to race. I was too old to crash.

I never have enjoyed anything as much as racing. But I saw the misery in the eyes of my loved ones, seeing me in the ICU, wondering if I was going to die or live. I thought that I just needed to get better so I could hit the track again. I realized how selfish that was. Not interested in putting my people through those times again.

I also cannot ski (which I also loved and didn't have the sense to stay off moguls). I am lucky to be walking, albeit with a shitload of pain.

Also wanting to live for my children and grandchildren keeps my from doing the shit I once loved. I just learned to love different things. Like returning to bodybuilding 29 years after first competing.
Sure, I am restricted in what I can do, but I was waaaay more restricted during those six months in a wheelchair.

You only live once, but you only die once too. How you live can be controlled by you. How you die,, not so much. I am not interested in helping the Grim Reaper do his jobs.
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I hear ya brother. I definitely should scale it back a bit.
 
Oldschool1 said:
I do understand what you’re getting at… But I think there are different categories not everyone fits into the same not some guys I know they have to have other people validate them in order to feel secure. I am just not one of them people.
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I understand but you can’t deny it feels good to get attention from your hard work. Plus, my original was just a little fun play and not too serious
 
PR-s? At 58? Nah. Shoulders and elbows don't care for that. Besides, at my age that would be like jumping in the ball pit at McDonalds. Just don't belong there.
 
Oldschool1 said:
Been in the gym since around 16 years old. Continue to break through in my 40s.. although my endurance isn’t there 🤣
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I’m only 28 but I hope when I get to my 40’s I’m still doing what you’re doing.
 
BEAST1 said:
I’m only 28 but I hope when I get to my 40’s I’m still doing what you’re doing.
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Just play the long game.. I see a lot of kids… I say that because there upper teens lower twenties running just crazy cycles and I’m sitting there like. Your gonna regret that
 
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Long game=overrated.
Until you get old and have less life in front of you than behind.
 
I am hitting PR's in terms of endurance. But my overall strength is no where near what it was. I used to rep 405 on bench and I think I would be hard pressed to get that for 1 rep now.

But my biggest achievement is that I can do light weight reps on squats for 50+ reps.

That may not sound like alot but I used to get to reps of say 20 with 225, 315 and I would be nearly dead and seeing stars.

So for me even 135 for 50 reps is awesome. Granted I am on my Cardarine and Super Cardarine product and creatine, that is probably why

Check this out speaking of reps. This was Jesse Marundes's training partner
This is insane for any age let alone over 40+

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgu94cZ_iQQ
 
CoachCabo said:
Long game=overrated.
Until you get old and have less life in front of you than behind.
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Long game = over rated until your body begins failing on you and you’re living with chronic pain, and feel physically ill 24/7.
PRO TIP: Don’t ignore high blood pressure! Your kidneys will thank you.
 
JJB1 said:
Long game = over rated until your body begins failing on you and you’re living with chronic pain, and feel physically ill 24/7.
PRO TIP: Don’t ignore high blood pressure! Your kidneys will thank you.
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Never check blood pressure = never have blood pressure issues. Same goes for blood tests, never have issues.

Ever watch “Dr. Pimple Popper”? Lady has a blackhead the size of a chestnut on her ear for over 35 years. She ignored it so it was never there.

On the long game…I was watching a documentary on gear and jungsters. Listening to them rationalize their blatant abuse made me watch to reach through the computer and smack them.
 
CoachCabo said:
Never check blood pressure = never have blood pressure issues. Same goes for blood tests, never have issues.

Ever watch “Dr. Pimple Popper”? Lady has a blackhead the size of a chestnut on her ear for over 35 years. She ignored it so it was never there.

On the long game…I was watching a documentary on gear and jungsters. Listening to them rationalize their blatant abuse made me watch to reach through the computer and smack them.
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Not the same topic, but whenever I see a beautiful woman or anyone with big warts, moles, growths on their face, I can’t understand why they don’t see a dermatologist and get it removed. When I get a mole I literally tear it off myself. Part of my OCD. Better to go to a dermatologist so they can biopsy it and remove it safely but I avoid doctors like the plague.

I blatantly abused gear but I knew I was abusing it. I’m honest with myself. I know I’m an addict in many facets. The truth is I’ve had acute depression, along with other issues, so I was okay with dying young. I just wanted to be a pro bodybuilder before I died. I never thought I’d live to pay the price of my abuses. I see this stage of my life as part of God’s plan to educate me further. Everything has a price! My goal is to rise above my pain and try to do my best to be kind and spread love. My grandma was ill my whole life. Everyone thought she’d never make it to 60. She died 2 months short of turning 100. So much pain and suffering for someone who never drank alcohol or used a drug.
 
I have so much to say about this; depression, addiction and especially chronic pain.
My thoughts would take a very long night and possibly a long monologue sitting in the same room.
I never had a “fuck it” attitude about anything, but I have had warped senses of reality because of opioids. My brain was wired wrong on that shit.

I have been fortunate (unfortunate?) to see examples of all sorts of fucked up shit in my family, which thankfully I used as a model and motivator to NOT be the same way.
It isn’t easy stopping the “generational” whatever people call it today.
 
JJB1 said:
Not the same topic, but whenever I see a beautiful woman or anyone with big warts, moles, growths on their face, I can’t understand why they don’t see a dermatologist and get it removed. When I get a mole I literally tear it off myself. Part of my OCD. Better to go to a dermatologist so they can biopsy it and remove it safely but I avoid doctors like the plague.

I blatantly abused gear but I knew I was abusing it. I’m honest with myself. I know I’m an addict in many facets. The truth is I’ve had acute depression, along with other issues, so I was okay with dying young. I just wanted to be a pro bodybuilder before I died. I never thought I’d live to pay the price of my abuses. I see this stage of my life as part of God’s plan to educate me further. Everything has a price! My goal is to rise above my pain and try to do my best to be kind and spread love. My grandma was ill my whole life. Everyone thought she’d never make it to 60. She died 2 months short of turning 100. So much pain and suffering for someone who never drank alcohol or used a drug.
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I’ve known quite a few guys that lived a similar youth… heard the I’ll never make 40 so fuck it mentality.. now there mid 40s with lots of regrets.. me included.. regret might be a strong word.. made me who I am today and I’m good with that… but nowadays you hear of a lot of 20-30 year olds really fucking thereself up and a few passing away.. it’s just not worth it.. all the influencers out there make it look glorious… there’s nothing easy about it
 
I lived my life full throttle. Never really turned down any opportunity at stacking on another life experience. In the Navy, I was one of the guys always raising my hand to do the risky stuff.
Not because I had any sort of YOLO bullshit or some sort of adrenaline death wish, I just love learning and doing.
Because of this, I was pretty sure I wouldn’t make it to 50.

Then, at 47, I came very close to losing my life. I toned things down a bit. Partially due to being physically restricted and partly because of how I realized I made those who loved me feel.

So when my 50th came around, I really looked hard at things and thought, “Well, here I am. I guess I had better start taking care of myself.”

The whole “at least I’ll look good in my casket” thing makes me sick and want to slap these guys at the same time.
My children are much older than these internet yutes and I can’t imagine how their parents must see all of this and how helpless they feel.

The bad part for us is, just like the parent who lose their child in a car crash, they blame the car and the guy that sold it to them. Not themselves for buying their newly licensed son a 500hp “muscle car”. But this is a normal human trait to deflect self guilt.
Steroids continue to get beat up in the public eye because of this redirection.
The documentary I just watched with Bostin’s mother made it seem like his ridiculous abuse caused his death. They went into his kidney failure and unhealthy habits and inferred he died from steroids/peptides/SARMs.

I think he died from an undetected congenital aneursym, iirc.
 
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CoachCabo said:
It isn’t easy stopping the “generational” whatever people call it today.
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I think this is mostly that “comfort” is the worst addiction.
I see it with my family, and people I work with. I’m not any more of a success in general terms than my sisters, or people I work with, but whenever health and fitness comes up I hear an endless void of excuses. I just tune it out. - nod and smile
 
BigJ247 said:
I think this is mostly that “comfort” is the worst addiction.
I see it with my family, and people I work with. I’m not any more of a success in general terms than my sisters, or people I work with, but whenever health and fitness comes up I hear an endless void of excuses. I just tune it out. - nod and smile
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Couple that with the rampant egocentrism and we get what the climate is today.

That first step forward out of the status quo is hard, I get it. But if you don't do something, you are doing nothing. Apply this wherever you like to everything around us.

It reminds me of the whole "I am the weirdo in my family" thing, whereas my healthy lifestyle is odd to them. "Health nut". :ROFLMAO:
Such a weirdo, interested in being healthy.

The military is filled with this whole "because we have always done it this way". My entire career seemed to be me bucking that status quo everywhere. It was rough, but the impact made it worth it, no matter how small.
 
Oldschool1 said:
I’ve known quite a few guys that lived a similar youth… heard the I’ll never make 40 so fuck it mentality.. now there mid 40s with lots of regrets.. me included.. regret might be a strong word.. made me who I am today and I’m good with that… but nowadays you hear of a lot of 20-30 year olds really fucking thereself up and a few passing away.. it’s just not worth it.. all the influencers out there make it look glorious… there’s nothing easy about it
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I’m with you in that I don’t have regrets because it’s taken me to where I am today in terms of knowledge. I believe the purpose of life is to spread love, and to learn and grow. But knowing what I know now, I’d approach everything differently. I never used drugs(non hormone drugs) until I was 29 when a friend told me he took Nubian before his leg workout and he could do twice as many reps on the leg press because the pain was reduced. I kept telling myself not to try it because I was raised that anyone who takes drugs should be shot in head. But, I so badly wanted to be a pro bodybuilder, and my legs just weren’t big enough. So, I used Nubian, on leg day only, at first. That’s how it started. It led to many bad addictions. Anyway, if I could go back, I’d NEVER touch a recreational drug. And with the gear, I’d try to keep it no higher than a gram. I wouldn’t have a chance to go pro, but so what. I’d look great and feel healthy. And, no ego lifting!!! I’ve had so many injuries from ego lifting. It’s not worth it!
 
tommygunz said:
Every PR I ever had was between 40-45. After that it all went downhill.
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This, esp early 40s. Couldnt believe how heavy I was going on big compound lifts.

50s now and Im working my way back on bench press, but my back and knees cant handle it on deads and squats.
 
I personally have been responding to heavy weights the best now in my mid 40's,i took several years off due to having younger kids and all that comes with that but started back about a year ago and i have been amazed at how well my body is responding to the heavy weights and gear. I have found though that i have to be more careful about listening to my body,in my 20's id heal fast but now if i tear something recovery is alot longer and more painful.
 
buffalo3 said:
I personally have been responding to heavy weights the best now in my mid 40's,i took several years off due to having younger kids and all that comes with that but started back about a year ago and i have been amazed at how well my body is responding to the heavy weights and gear. I have found though that i have to be more careful about listening to my body,in my 20's id heal fast but now if i tear something recovery is alot longer and more painful.
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Agreed. Still go heavy for sets but manageable. Today had guys around who could spot. Last time I got frisky was 315. Today 330 was easy. So f it. 340. Did that as well. Probably could have done more but felt that was good enough. Ended with a bunch of incline after and not sore. Test and gear have been magical. I’ll attribute it to my short arms at 5’6.


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