True story: There was this guy who frequented the gym I used to train at a long time ago.
He was, if I remember rightly, in his early 60s; still putting in an ungodly amount of effort (to his credit).
But.
And it is a planetoid-sized, cellulite-cratered but.
His efforts were crippling him.
Guy was already suffering with a litany of health problems and was taking so many pills just to get through the day he practically rattled while he walked.
Add his bonkers training regime on top of that and, by his own admission, he wasn’t entirely sure how he hadn’t already carked it right there on the gym floor!
Contrast that with the older gents I met at the “Don Styler Physical Training Centre” (one of the oldest gyms in the country, that I learned sadly burned down a couple of months back) when I first started training.
As I understand it, they’d lifted weights there every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday without fail for a great many years, following a basic schedule consisting of mostly basic barbell lifts supplemented by a smattering of machine, dumbbell, and bodyweight work.
All looked and moved like men twenty or thirty years their junior. In fact, these sixty-plus year old men were in darn sight better shape than nineteen-year-old me, and continued to be so for a year (that’s right, I’m saying it took me a full year to “catch up” to men who were more than three times my age).
The difference between the first chap who would lurch around the gym wrapped in support bandages like an Egyptian mummy and these other men who could put teenagers (untrained, but teenagers nonetheless) to shame is one of attitude and approach.
The latter were perfectly satisfied to pursue results slowly – viewing training as a pursuit measured in decades, not mere weeks. Whereas the former was a perpetual Peter Pan, unwilling and perhaps unable to accept the reality of his advancing age and persisting in training as he did in his 20s for his entire life, with predictably awful results.
I know which I would rather be, and I suspect you do too.
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Thank you,
Phil Tyreman