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One of man's worst canon events
@Kloi Falls spell the end. By the time they start to fall, they are so frail that they lack the recovery to heal.
Provided you don't go senile, the loss of the ability to get up from a squat is really what defines when your life as a man ends and your second childhood begins. If you can't get up you are basically fucked and have to be taken care of.
Balance is a big deal. I have a lot of older customers and everyone loses their balance at some point and then a stick is advisable on rough ground and no more ladders. Gosh I hope this comes late for me! I have spent my adult life working at height.
Whatever else you do, retain the ability to get up from a squat. Strength is the best protection and all the gym beasts should have this on their side, so long as the heart can take the load of all the extra weight they have piled on.
Read More@SeasonedRP Very much so. I completely agree. One has to read one's own body with how it responds to the stimulus and the volume. (This is why good coaches don't write big long plans for good people but give them ideas and see how they get on).
Ageing happens to all of us on roughly the same schedule. Good habits and genetics can delay it a bit and strength accrued pre aging is a great buffer to the observable effects. But we all have the same problems of attenuated responsiveness to stimuli and reduced capacity to recover on a fairly similar chronology. It is worth being aware of this while at the same time fighting tooth and nail to retain everything one can as long as one can (and some very cool old guys show us that that can be quite a long time).
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@Kloi 1up for balance. I was reading papers about falls being big contributor to early problems as even (what youngsters consider) small injuries become problematic.
Another marker was not being able to get up from a squat without using hands.
"Prevent falls." Oh man, you're making me feel old
I served at the local Ma and Pop dinner in town for 3 years. Open since the 70s, original owner is still a regular type of place. The current owners met while working there in high-school. We have multiple generations of families coming in. A lot of regulars into their 80s. Still living on their own.
I can't count the number of 65+yo, we lost in that time frame to falls. They never heal right, if at all from the first one. Eventually falling again and again.
My balance is one thing I'd ideally like to take to my grave. Even my Uncle at that age, still lifting 3+ days a week, is starting to lose his balance.
@First-light These are good observations but it's important to keep in mind that work capacity is influenced by years of training and how that training is performed. An elite level 60 year old may well be able to handle significantly more volume than a less trained 25 year old.
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With how sophisticated A.I. rending has become and a few prelates having been outed as being involved in organized crime, I don't doubt you've seen women in nuns habits in porn, but unless you're naming names, most people will in the least, conclude most of what you saw was actually cosplay and A.I. renderings.
Entho-exoticism is as real a as ethno-masochism, rooted in the same psychological dysfunction that fuels industries like porn as they've always catered to guys with preferences of all sort. Technology only makes it easier for people to find them. The average porn watcher won't care that the person portraying a Muslim female choking on kafir cock isn't actually Muslim, of Arabian, north African, or east Asian descent anymore so than they care that the tribal wearing blacks weren't plucked straight out of Africa or the native dressed women are actually Italian.
At this point, I'm inclined to conclude short of a brain drain, technology will render this all mute. A.I. rendering will continue to advance raising the bar for women entering porn until they simply can't build the starting momentum needed to carve out an audience for themselves. Androids are also developing greater sophistication, so I expect they'll piggyback on the real-doll gain into the recreational sex market space. Frankly, I'd be surprised if guys flush with cash aren't talking about investing into tech pimping, prostitution, and porn with the same excited enthusiasm as guys talk about investing into crypto-currency today.
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@SeasonedRP I understand that the older guy is effectively caught in a fork. One one hand he recovers less effectively. On the other hand he also responds less well to the training stimulus -the number of genes whose expression is altered is much reduced. There are a number of studies on this in mice and men. Here is one such article. Its worth reading a few. www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047637400001780
This means that as you age, you have to use your resources wisely. Some age earlier than others and in the end if you know your body, you should be able to pick up on when things change for you. In the late 40's there is usually the most pronounced change for men and things then carry on gradually declining until around retirement age mid 60's when you take another more pronounced dip.
Young guys only need a small stimulus to get gains and they recover fast. Its why young tradesmen who don't even do any sport or training usually look great on a construction site in summer with their tops off -work alone is enough stimulus, they can go out drinking after and still look great. When older tradesmen do not do any sport or training they look worse than office workers when they take their tops off in summer. The job is actually driving these guys down as they are not fit and can't recover from it. The stress usually makes them fat as well and they often live less long than desk jockeys.
There is no need to change things up until you see you need to. Then it becomes a case of making the stimulus felt enough yet not slamming yourself beyond your recovery ability. An extra set is said to sometimes be the answer but it will have to be lighter or less frequent or else it will push you too far into muscle damage to effectively recover in time for the next session.
I am not really a lifter, so I can't say the exact things lifters should do but the aging problem of poor recovery and poor stimulus response is the problem one needs to work around somehow.
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