It must suck being a 60+ year old who is into fitness

Ray wrote:

To the OP, you obviously have no clue about the effects of aging on the body. I hope you only hang out at that gym and don't work there. I guarantee you'll be slower and weaker at 60 than you are now. I don't care how much you train. And to the guy who says his 51 year old running buddy runs a 5:01 and benches 300 lbs. I'm calling bullshit.

Sorry I just saw you said he was 58 and could also do 22 pull ups.

Wow,

When the LRC staff does its weekly (weakly) staff meetings,

They dream up this click bait thread.

So sad.

dtyuj wrote:

If you keep yourself fit and practice preventive health maintenance then your fitness level just keeps going up and up with regular and proper training. You should be fitter at 85 than you were at 25. I consider 60 the spring time of one's life.

No way. My talent level is average at best, and even I ran faster than the men's 85 year old WRs when I was 25. And this was off relatively little training.

Either you were running against 85 year olds who didn't keep themselves in shape or I would have to revise that age down. But I know for a fact that at 50, if you have kept yourself in shape and trained properly, you can run much faster and father than at 25. This is a fact.

All about NY wrote:

Think about it, I’m not talking about 60+ year olds who are doped up or genetically blessed, but truly average 60+ year olds with no hormonal advantage.

Think about it, every non-disabled teen male you know - whether they work out or not is somewhat fast (15.0 100m) or somewhat strong (150 bench) in some way even without any training...

What someone else can do is irrelevant.

Next

Excellent, yet another"stupid lame old people" thread.

Love it.

Now I can go back to reading about the impending financial disasters, climate change disaster, overpopulation, and infectious disease pandemics that are coming up in the future.

And laugh my rear off.

meh n wrote:

I'm 52 and can do 16 full pullups. Can pick up and carry my 130 pound wife in my arms. Run under 18 minutes for 5k. At my teenage peak I was only 'fine' as a runner (10 flat for 3200), so I'm not some genetic freak.

I run every day and lift most days.

Getting old may not be what you think it is.

The most impressive part of all this is that your wife is still only 130... congrats.

Yeah old people look funny when they run. Lift your legs, is it so hard to do that? Geez...,and stay the hell out of our campus gym. You guys are annoying. And you smell. And nobody wants to talk in the gym. We’re there to work out, not talk about stupid crap all day. Go back to work. No need to retire if you guys claim to be so fit and healthy. Contribute something meaningful to the world instead of boasting how great you used to be. Nobody cares.

Beat it old prunes wrote:

Yeah old people look funny when they run. Lift your legs, is it so hard to do that? Geez...,and stay the hell out of our campus gym. You guys are annoying. And you smell. And nobody wants to talk in the gym. We’re there to work out, not talk about stupid crap all day. Go back to work. No need to retire if you guys claim to be so fit and healthy. Contribute something meaningful to the world instead of boasting how great you used to be. Nobody cares.

Why are you so mad at Donald?

dtyuj wrote:

dtyuj wrote:

If you keep yourself fit and practice preventive health maintenance then your fitness level just keeps going up and up with regular and proper training. You should be fitter at 85 than you were at 25. I consider 60 the spring time of one's life.

No way. My talent level is average at best, and even I ran faster than the men's 85 year old WRs when I was 25. And this was off relatively little training.

Either you were running against 85 year olds who didn't keep themselves in shape or I would have to revise that age down. But I know for a fact that at 50, if you have kept yourself in shape and trained properly, you can run much faster and father than at 25. This is a fact.

Are you trolling? If you are, 7/10 since you got me to bite twice.

The WR for 85 year old men is 24:03 in the 5K by Ed Whitlock. I and many other people on here can run a sub 24 5K off of less than 10 MPW.

And if what you're saying is true, why aren't the Olympic running events won by 50 year olds?

I am 58 and can run circles around you. What are you suggesting?

Gramps wrote:

WTH gym do you run? wrote:

You are wrong in your assessment of the average teen or 20 something. Nowadays they are basically geezers themselves.

I pee 15 times a day, so jogging to the toilet is my distance run.

But I'm still more fit than most X-box playing Millennials living in their Mom's basement.

Millennials are screwed-up in the head - it's the worst generation in the history of mankind.

SprintTriathlon wrote:

Beat it old prunes wrote:

Yeah old people look funny when they run. Lift your legs, is it so hard to do that? Geez...,and stay the hell out of our campus gym. You guys are annoying. And you smell. And nobody wants to talk in the gym. We’re there to work out, not talk about stupid crap all day. Go back to work. No need to retire if you guys claim to be so fit and healthy. Contribute something meaningful to the world instead of boasting how great you used to be. Nobody cares.

Why are you so mad at Donald?

He's probably one of these dumb millennials that can't figure what he wants to do in life. ?

I am heading for 59 and start to feel what 60+ will be, and if I do not fight it, every year I will get 2% weaker, so to fight it I will have to be aggressive.

Problem is, the hormones making you aggressive are all gone by the time you are 60.

So.

Even if you are going to the gym, you are not aggressively attacking the weights or the bike or whatever you do, you just do something.

And then, if you do get aggressive, you lack the hormones and other stuff for recovery, so you will be sore and maybe pick up an injury and say to yourself I will never do that again.

I am not there, because I know this, and I still have two years before hell.

meh n wrote:

I'm 52 and can do 16 full pullups. Can pick up and carry my 130 pound wife in my arms. Run under 18 minutes for 5k. At my teenage peak I was only 'fine' as a runner (10 flat for 3200), so I'm not some genetic freak.

I run every day and lift most days.

Getting old may not be what you think it is.

You're not 60+ yet. Come back in 8 years.

Eat steak wrote:

Dr. Shawn Baker is 52 and is JACKED.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BwQON3egiNW/

Ouch . You can get back in shape but moobs are forever once they set up shop.

Most impressive wrote:

meh n wrote:

I'm 52 and can do 16 full pullups. Can pick up and carry my 130 pound wife in my arms. Run under 18 minutes for 5k. At my teenage peak I was only 'fine' as a runner (10 flat for 3200), so I'm not some genetic freak.

I run every day and lift most days.

Getting old may not be what you think it is.

The most impressive part of all this is that your wife is still only 130... congrats.

That's the miracle of the trade in.

Millennials Drive Me Crazy! wrote:

Millennials are screwed-up in the head - it's the worst generation in the history of mankind.

I'm going to go with the Noah and Abraham generations, not by much though.

"And if what you're saying is true, why aren't the Olympic running events won by 50 year olds?"

That's a great question. The only thing I can think of is most people do not take care of themselves properly or there's a strong genetic component that keeps some people functioning optimally longer. Maybe it's phycological; the pressures of society can be very strong. I think in the near future there will be a greater understanding of aging and how it's not actually a decline but a wearing out that can be extended through proper care.

Ginger Bakery wrote:

Eat steak wrote:

Dr. Shawn Baker is 52 and is JACKED.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BwQON3egiNW/

Ouch . You can get back in shape but moobs are forever once they set up shop.

Those are pectoral muscles, champ.