Really?
Use your imagination....I'm lifting fire wood..riding indoors, my gym has virtual on line classes, abs and biceps workouts are easy peasy with home gadgets. I'm actually in better shape because I'm riding twice as long watching 11/2 to 2 hour movies while riding....get with it...
there are no excuses
And I see your in Florida! It's still cold and raw here, but that aint stopping me.
Flyboy08,
I did use my imagination, and I didn't make excuses. I found a way to continue my workouts--in a completely empty gym far removed from anyone to or from whom the virus could be transmitted.
Oh, the humanity!
Have the muscles atrophied that much already from lack of use?
Marie,
Thank you for your compassion. The sincere concern behind your question really shines through. That means a lot to me.
At my age, atrophy sets in quickly. In my 40's, I got caught up with a bad crowd of people like MaxBottomtime and Flyboy08, succumbed to their peer pressure, and ran off all my muscles doing marathons and such. Now it's real hard to rebuild and retain them.
(Plus, closed gyms mean reduced access to steroid and HGH dealers.
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Seriously though, my personal theory, backed only by life experience and a liberal arts education that included no physiology courses, is that aerobic conditioning has diminishing returns after reaching certain fitness levels, and that it's more important for older people not to be frail than to have extraordinary cardiovascular fitness. When I do get sick, whether it's from corona virus or something else, I want strength reserves to help fend off total debilitation.
On the bright side, the >60 age group records for most weight classes in most states are nearly blank slates. The few people my age who still compete mostly go bench press only or push-pull (bench and deadlift). If you show up and make a clean attempt in all three lifts (squat, bench, deadlift), you're pretty sure to win and maybe set a state record or two, even if, like me, you're not a particularly accomplished lifter (there are guys at my gym who lift more kgs than I lift lbs). But more important, going to a couple meets a year gives an objective benchmark on how well you're resisting the ravages of aging.
Went rooting around in my photo archive and found this pic taken in Monterey, Calif. on a road trip in about 1979 or 1980. I'm the guy with the black beard in the middle. The other two guys are my current boat partners (although one is in a nursing home now) and both went through @Sam Miller III 18 week NAUI Advanced course with me. Can't believe I was ever that young.
