We’re near the same age. Do you ever ask yourself when you’ll really slow down either by choice or because you have to? My oldest brother is 79 and he nor any of my other brothers show sign of slipping in old age. I guess someday it’ll be shuffleboard and cribbage for all of us.
You guys are both people I want to be like when I reach your age. I often think about what it’s like to slow down, but I just can’t do it. Thank you both.
9/5
close grip bench 3 x 10 w/135
cable lateral raise 3 x 10 w/15
skull crusher 3 x 10 w/70
barbell curl 3 x 10 w/60]
with dumbbells 3 x 10 w/30s
cable curls 3 x 10 w/50
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You’re walking around with big ol’ pipes for arms.
Keep on dreaming. 17” is nothing anymore.
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9/8
Incline barbell press 3 x 10 w/110/135/155
flat machine press 3 x `1 w/110/140/160
incline smith machine press 3 x 8 w/110/140/160
pec dec 3 x 10 w/120/140/155
cable pressdown 3 x 10 w/42/50/50
Shoulder pain seems to disappear when I work out these days. Added collagen to daily sub mix.
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I’ve been using collagen for about six months. I agree, it has a positive impact on the joints.
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9/9
single arm machine rows 3 x 10 w/90
Seated cable row 3 x 15 w/160
chest supported incline db rows 3 x 15 w/40s
cable curl 3 x 10 w/50
Shoulder ached too much to do pullups. Will try again later.
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9/10
hack squat 3 x 10 w/360
belt squat 3 x 8 w/4something/550/640
leg curl 3 x 10 w/175
decline crunch 3 x 15 w/72/95/95
seated calf raise 3 x 15 w/90/140/140
I’ve noticed that when I go heavy on belt squat (over about 700) I’m really tired around 4 pm. I had to walk a fair distance to court last week after leg day and I really felit like I couldn’t make it to the courthouse. That was a real wakeup. But then the 60 something lawyer I was walking with was telling me about his needing hip replacement surgery before end of year.
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You’re older than me, but I look at a lot of guys my age and really wonder how they get around. I’ll take a sore knee and back over what a lot of these guys are doing to themselves.
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As muffed up as my low back is, I agree, I will take that with the DOMS instead of how co-teachers my age have aged. Even those 10-15 years younger than I am, many look hammered. I am no wunder grandpa but I am holding my own.
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I missed two workouts to attend a probate seminar. Too many attendees described their physical ailments. Last presenter said lawyer profession has more guys over 65 than any other. Hard to retire when you’re having fun. The presentation–on elder abuse–was sort of eye opening when presenter said that a lot of people in audience were already old enough to be suceptible to it. Then at a break I learned about two assistant district attorneys in the state who started a probation scam where they would direct a misdemeanor convictee into one of their secretely owned rehabilitation programs as part of a suspended sentence. One of them paid the other one over $200,000 to become a part owner in the illegal activity. Both were recently arrested. I dread seminars.
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9/15
incline bench 3 x 10 w/80/100/145
bench 3 x 10 w/135/145/185
smith machine incline press 3 x 8 w/80/100/140
cable curl 3 x 10 w/32
v bar cable curl 3 x 10 w/65
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I’ve been using it for a little over a year now, and feel like I’m constantly cutting my fingernails. My hair is also visibly benefitted by it. Not sure what it’s doing to my joints, but assuming it’s doing internally what it is externally, it’s well worth the money.
Glad to read your experience. I’m hoping for something similar.
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9/16
pullups 3 x 10
single arm chest supported machine rows 3 x 10 w/90s/100s/115s
cable rows 3 x 15 w/ 180/240/240
incine db rows 3 x 1`5 w/ 40s/50s/65s
cable curls 3 x 10 w/50
Felt good today. Back strain still apparent in bed after that deadlift muscle pull 2 weeks ago. I think it’s because I sat still for 2 8 hr days in that seminar last week. No such problems until then. Crazy.
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I can easily believe that. The continuing ed things I do of that length are brutal. Just sitting and sitting and sitting in the world’s least comfortable chairs. And then if whoever is leading the thing isn’t controlling his or her audience and allows idiot questions that disrupt the flow of information, I’m thrown into a rage state on top of it, which spikes cortisol.
I’m a big bathroom-goer at those things. I’d probably look like I have prostate issues if it weren’t for the boobs.
I fully agree with your view of continuing education. If the law didn’t change so often I would not attend. Not even for the incredible food.
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9/17
hack squat 3 x 10 w/270/360/360
belt squat 3 x 10 w/ 540/630/630 (after warmups with really good numbers)
leg extension 3 x 10 w/195
decline crunch 3 x 12 w/65/95/95
seated calf raise 3 x 15 w/140/160/160
Guy who monopolizes the seated calf raise machine had to wait on me for a change today.
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I can’t tell if you’re being facetious. Do the lawyers get good food? Because we mental health types certainly do not, if we even get food at all. Occasionally we arrive to weak coffee and Sam’s Club pastries, but generally lunch is for us to figure out.