I know
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The entire sport of CrossFit is dogmatically shunned and ridiculed because of a small percentage of bad coaches. Your lack of coaching anyone notable doesn’t discredit you, it just fails to credit you.
Would you trust a coach to bring you to the Olympics if they’d never been before? Or would you trust the one with dozens of gold medal athletes under their belt - and maybe a few themselves?
Jason Blaha is a coach with neither sucess for himself or for any of his ‘clients’. Yet people still trust him because he talks kind of okay, i guess.
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Okay your reply is wrong on so many levels.
Firstly…EVERY Olympic winning coach, or any coach of any winning team, had to start somewhere. So are you saying that their ideas, however innovative and relevant, did not have any credibility until later in their career?
And to get any credit from their athletes, do coaches have to pose in tiny trunks or post fast times or big lifts? It seems so in your world.
Using soccer as a very appropriate real world example, there are far MORE great players who go on to be absolutely lousy managers, than there are great players who actually also become great managers / coaches. Most successful and notable managers and coaches were actually mediocre players. Maybe their success as a manager stems from the fact that as a player they had to put more thought into their game, whereas their more gifted counterparts did not, it came easily, and they then could not communicate what was required when in management, to players who did not share their talent.
You see this in bodybuilding and other athletic pursuits also. I would rather seek advice off someone who has struggled to gain every pound of a good, but not stellar physique than someone who could grow just by looking at a weight.
I think that you need to rethink this immature, idiolistic outlook of yours. You may be missing out on some valuable sources of information due to your viewpoint.
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No one is, or has claimed to be “expert” at anything on this thread…and certainly not me. I’m learning everyday and will consider information from all sources before either accepting or rejecting it. Over the years I’ve found out over time that utterly useless BS advice can come from legitimate “experts” as it can come from the man on the street.
Despite not being experts, people are entitled to post opinions and share information that they find interesting with others. The moment the exercise internet becomes a thong wearing dictatorship, then I’m out. Fortunately it hasn’t come to that…yet.
If anyone finds the sharing of info, without an accompanying semi naked shot, objectionable, then they are quite free to disregard it, not read it and scroll on without commenting.
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If you want t live longer…stay off the forums.
Simple advice…no physique photo required.
You’re welcome…
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Whoever it is, it’s pretty clutch, haha.
Appreciate the nod there. No matter how long Jack lived, we lost him too soon.
Well, in 14 months i did this with just TRT so…
(I know some folks find this gay, and I’m flattered but uninterested)
About here, as far a practical and useful knowledge goes (red spot).
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This 
is very salty.
It’s been fun poking at the Darden Forum, but I sense the squad of google experts are getting tired of my presence. I’ll see to my exit.
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Me too, but I guess we’ll see. Planning to end to cut when i hit 10% - will DEXA when I think I’m there to confirm (and also use for objective visual markers for leanness).
Idk if you ever read LOTR but Tolkien spending nearly a whole chapter on the design of Tom Bombadil’s chair had me dying.. HE’S NOT EVEN A MAIN CHARACTER, I JUST WANT TO SEE EAGLES KILLING ORCS.
^I view much of training and nutrition through this same lense. I’m more of a ‘central theme’ kind of guy.
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As others have pointed out, Jack’s brother was not a workout warrior, mostly like to play golf, and he lived a year longer than Jack. So it seems like good genetics may have played a bigger role.
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Wow…you denigrate others for having an opinion and state that it lacks credibility if not accompanied by a physique photo…and then you state that you built yours via TRT…unbelievable. Just exactly who’s credibility is worth sh*t?
However you cut it, you aren’t natural. You built what you did with pharmaceutical help.
I think in terms of credibility, the photos you should be asking for aren’t of semi naked men holding dumbbells, but instead people in white lab coats holding Chemistry degrees.
Oh and by the way…as for the gay thing…it’s only you that seems keen on seeing semi naked men online…I’m sure there are other websites that you can go to for that…
No man in my family lived passed 84, therefore i will be surprised to make it my late 80s
thats genetics for ya
I never claimed to be, and i was until 9 months ago; I was natural for 15 years prior. Take it for what it’s worth, but I’ve had about a dozen different folks email me in the last few months asking for help with their diet and training (including one today). Something tells me you’ve not experienced this, but I could be wrong.
I’ve taken far less than most assume. This opinion isn’t mine, it has been commented numerous times by other individuals… most think I’ve been blasting for years.
FWIW, it wasn’t the drugs, it was the diet. If you’d followed my log any, you’d see that quite clearly. Thanks for salting the popcorn.
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I’m not a virtue signaler or anything. But we could leave the gay remarks out of the conversation. It’s not that I give a shit about the LBGQTXYZ community it’s just that it’s a bullshit diversion. Physiques are presented on stage with less than boxer briefs. It’s part of the sport. Posing in your briefs isn’t gay… to imply so is a weak diversion as best. I’m not saying anything about your credibility. Kudos for being a susccesful coach. For this discussion I care not what you look like to be honest. When I see someone advising on somebody else’s physique, nutrition, or training I DO see somebody that walks the walk as having more credibility. A pic would lend to that credibility.
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Bare with me guys. This is just what I do. I have a lot of thoughts. In my case weight train can have cardio benefits. In no way am I dogmatic about it though.
My main concern is what is healthy or best for me. I don’t care what anyone else does.
I have been using HIT for a long time. At this point I am 58 years old. I also have a serious immune system disorder.
I see my Doctor regularly and my health is overall pretty good.
If you consider cardio aerobic exercise can be defined as"relating to,involving,or requiring oxygen to meet energy demands during exercise via aerobic metabolism.
The key to a “cardio weight lifting”(it’s a thing) workout is creating a high intensity workout with incomplete rest.
Cardio can be defined as any type of exercise that gets your heart rate up and keeps it up for a prolonged period of time.
Your respiratory system will start working harder as you begin to breathe faster and more deeply.
Other cardio can be brisk walking,jogging,running,rowing ect.
In my case at my age I look to the CDC guidelines. Moderate intensity physical activity should be 64% to 76% of my max heart rate.
So roughly 105 to 125 beats per minute.
Vigorous intensity physical activity about 77% to 93% of my max heart rate. So about 125 to 151 beats per minute. Any of this is good for me.
For me what it comes down to is duration and intensity. For sure I can get that with weights and high rep deadlifts,leg press,and Squats. Maybe even weight high step-ups.
Adding heavy exercise next for the back,then chest and shoulders. No direct arm work needed. In that order. Although I don’t like to be around the high end of my max. I can probably keep it around or over 77%
About a half hour with little or no rest does the trick. I can go about 10 minutes longer as well
Before that I hit the stationary bike as a warmup. One minute at a high rate and one minute with the tension set to the max. I do that two more times without rest.
Most exercises I would ascend in weight. Adding more weight each time. Something like 15/8/4. I can rest less than minute or a little more between each rep reduction so to speak. Keep in my I add weight and most of the time stop a rep before failure.
I can’t sustain the year round.
If I can do this or sustain this twice a week that is all I need. But you can’t sit around on your ass watching TV the rest of the time. Or have a bad diet. You should get good sleep.
Note I don’t always do that workout. But I can do one set of higher reps with the same type movements and get cardio benefits. But using light weight might not cut the mustard
If I just hit the weights with only a few exercises and a few sets with about 3 minutes between set my results are not as good as far as keeping my heart rate in the moderate intensity range.
My joints are not like they were 30 years ago. So if I do other cardio it’s on a bike or very brisk walking. This may or my not be augmented with weight lifting year round.
Some people will say there are not many benefits from brisk walking. I say bullshit. You can maintain a higher heart rate for extended periods of time. It’s healthy and good for you.You are out in the fresh air. It can relieve depression.
Dr.Ken who is known for crazy HIT weight workouts recommended to me what I do 3 times a week. Working up to 40-60 minutes walking or biking. It is easier on my joints.
Clarence Bass does a High Intensity weight workout once a week. He also does are aerobic training once a week.
If you want to be ripped who need to do more that just lift weights. More so if your non enhanced.
I’m not looking to argue or fight about this,and I won’t.
Please check the thread…I didn’t bring it up, someone else did, then Andrewgen_Receptors expanded on it.
My remark was an attempt to bring it to a close.
Sorry…don’t care how much, or little you’ve taken. Your “help” is a variable, and a strong one at that, that many in this forum group haven’t resorted to.
And I call BS on your claim about “it’s the diet”.
If that were the case then why would drugs be even necessary?
You have no proof or knowledge of how much the TRT has helped. But your photos sure give some clues. Without the TRT you probably might have gotten leaner…but not retained size.
You do realise that response to drugs also has as much of, if not more, of a genetic component as response to training has. Otherwise there wouldn’t be warnings on prescription meds and alternatives for the same conditions, if one produces a bad reaction.
Finally…it seems as though the TRT IShaving a negative effect on your memory. May I remind you that this thread is about cardio adaptations for health and longevity. As such I don’t see any centenarians, or those like Mr Lalane, who came close, boasting about their hormone replacement therapy. If anything, I should imagine that it would have a negative impact where mortality is concerned.
And I’ll repeat for the hard of understanding…
Read back through the thread…
It was not me who first mentioned the word “gay”.
And it was not me that, unlike Andrewgen_Receptors denigrated it into something negative.
Perhaps you should read through the whole thread to gain some context BEFORE jumping to conclusions and making emotional accusations…
The post you’re looking for is here. Keep paddling so you don’t sink.
I’m out, small fry.