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Exercise Makes Our Muscles Work Better with Age

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Re: Exercise Makes Our Muscles Work Better with Age

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Post by darkerside »

agumonkey wrote: post #46
mindcrime wrote: post #13

I sure hope so! I'm 42 now, and I just came back in from a bike ride - only my second since a 5 month layoff caused by a combination of weather, travel and shoulder surgery - and I'm beat. And gawd was I slllooooowwwww out there tonight. Uuuggghhh. But hey, I know it will come back with time, and - more to the point - I know how important it is to stay active. After the whole heart-attack thing back in 2014, I'm pret…

Cardiovascular failure taught me a lot by pushing my system to its lower limit. When walking 45 minutes is the only physical activity you can take, the only way you can feel warm blood smoothly pushing and the only time you'll feel your heart pulsing sound and clear you learn a lot.

It sounds like you've made quite a life adjustment. Can you tell us more about your experience?

Re: Exercise Makes Our Muscles Work Better with Age

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Post by dominotw »

krrrh wrote: post #39
dominotw wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am curious if you had to deal with any injuries over the years. My body seems to be the type that gets injured easily, no matter what I do I seem to get injured. I am obsessive about form, I seem to get "overuse injuries", shoulder impingement, sensitive it band ect.

Can't speak for GP, but I kept hitting a wall in strength gains with shoulder or lower back pain until I made mobility work a priority. It doesn't have to be fancy or extreme, frequency is the key. Search out Joe DeFranco's Limber 11 and Simple 6 for a decent routine and try to get 3-4 times a week minimum. After a month you'll be surprised how different your body feels.

>Joe DeFranco's Limber 11 and Simple 6

Wow. Thank you for this, this seems very useful for me. I will def check it out.

Re: Exercise Makes Our Muscles Work Better with Age

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Post by rebootthesystem »

hyperchase wrote: post #17
rebootthesystem wrote: post #16

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Interesting. Same question someone else asked: What's your injury history been like? Coincidentally, I just got back from the doctor. I had my right ankle x-rayed because it's been sore for couple of weeks. I kind of limp in the morning until it warms up and then I can walk normally but step the wrong way and it can be painful. Nothing wrong. They said it's probably a strained ligament issue. I am doing 200 lbs squat…

I got cocky as a novice, and fucked my back pretty bad and was out of comission for a 4 months or so. Got cocky chasing huge (for me, at the time) numbers and ended up losing way more progress than I gained. Minor things here and there in my shoulders and elbows, which I ended up fixing by tearing apart my own bench press form and being meticulous with ever part of the lift. Bench press is, in my opinion, the most te…

> Bench press is, in my opinion, the most technical lift of the big three.

Is there a book or online resource that could help one understand this and how to approach it correctly?

Re: Exercise Makes Our Muscles Work Better with Age

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Post by agumonkey »

darkerside wrote: post #51
agumonkey wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cardiovascular failure taught me a lot by pushing my system to its lower limit. When walking 45 minutes is the only physical activity you can take, the only way you can feel warm blood smoothly pushing and the only time you'll feel your heart pulsing sound and clear you learn a lot.

It sounds like you've made quite a life adjustment. Can you tell us more about your experience?

Barely made anything, my system just couldn't take anything, that what I tried to say, at one point your just deprived of good sensation from your body, lack of blood flow, inability to take any junk food (even processed). Your mind is a bit in danger mode and your body very explicit about what is good and what is not. Having your vascular system above a certain threshold will trigger a strange form of pleasure even. Imagine the bliss of getting in bed after 48h+ being awake, but coming from each every cells, muscle, veins.

To be honest, even in that situation I procrastinated, I should be walking every day morning and evening. But the weakness was so stressful I was worried about doing anything. Fun part: blood sample, ECG and echography revealed nothing so doctors pat me on the back as if I was seeking attention and feared of nothing. So anyway the tests having came back I walk more and every time that bliss comes back. I can understand why overweight people sitting all day can harm their body, killing me softly style, if they never walk more than 45min.

Re: Exercise Makes Our Muscles Work Better with Age

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Post by CuriouslyC »

hyperchase wrote: post #3
civilian wrote: post #2

I thought this was taken for granted but I'm glad it's been confirmed and we understand the neural process behind it. It's a good motivation for working out. I often think: "I'm squatting 180lbs now, so that I can sit down onto and stand up from a toilet when I'm 80."

I'm squatting 500 pounds now, so I can squat 350 when I'm 80 :P

Word. I want to dominate masters powerlifting.

Re: Exercise Makes Our Muscles Work Better with Age

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Post by hyperchase »

rebootthesystem wrote: post #53
hyperchase wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I got cocky as a novice, and fucked my back pretty bad and was out of comission for a 4 months or so. Got cocky chasing huge (for me, at the time) numbers and ended up losing way more progress than I gained. Minor things here and there in my shoulders and elbows, which I ended up fixing by tearing apart my own bench press form and being meticulous with ever part of the lift. Bench press is, in my opinion, the most te…

> Bench press is, in my opinion, the most technical lift of the big three. Is there a book or online resource that could help one understand this and how to approach it correctly?

Starting Strength is a fanastic resource about learning about the lifts. Personally, I think Mark Rippetoe's training programs are pretty crap but the information about the technical aspects of the lifts in the book are great.

Alan Thrall also has some videos on Youtube on the bench press that are fantastic too.

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