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My knee reminded me I'm no longer in my 20's ten minutes into one of my Krav sessions last week, lovely crunching sound and had to take it easy for the rest of the session.

Luckily there was no issue bearing weight straight afterwards so it's nothing major just mildly swollen and clunky feeling at the minute.

It's been quite strange starting up with these classes it's mostly pretty "normal" people meaning I'm generally the biggest built guy there, whereas having spent the last god knows how many years in gyms where I'm probably at the smaller end it just feels really weird and some people definitely seem to steam at me with a bit more power than they would with others doing the same drill forgetting that they're still just battering the new guy :D
 
tom_e said:
My knee reminded me I'm no longer in my 20's ten minutes into one of my Krav sessions last week, lovely crunching sound and had to take it easy for the rest of the session.

Luckily there was no issue bearing weight straight afterwards so it's nothing major just mildly swollen and clunky feeling at the minute.

It's been quite strange starting up with these classes it's mostly pretty "normal" people meaning I'm generally the biggest built guy there, whereas having spent the last god knows how many years in gyms where I'm probably at the smaller end it just feels really weird and some people definitely seem to steam at me with a bit more power than they would with others doing the same drill forgetting that they're still just battering the new guy :D
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White belts are the best targets for experienced belts if you're big and strong as it helps them hone their skills.
 
Research shows you can still keep making progress in your 50’s if you keep training, although obviously the risk-reward ratio for doing heavy low rep stuff goes up and your power starts to go down before your strength and LBM, (hence typical pro athlete age range vs people who just bodybuild or train for fun).

‘Middle-aged now? RIP!’ only applies if you’re like most people and go increasingly potato mode with age. Basically no reason not to lift until you drop.
 
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Research shows you can still keep making progress in your 50’s if you keep training, although obviously the risk-reward ratio for doing heavy low rep stuff goes up and your power starts to go down before your strength and LBM, (hence typical pro athlete age range vs people who just bodybuild or train for fun).

‘Middle-aged now? RIP!’ only applies if you’re like most people and go increasingly potato mode with age. Basically no reason not to lift until you drop.
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My goal is to be one of those jacked grandfathers:D
 
Syla5 said:
@DarkShadow Even with that code im only getting it down to £61, eddie halls code gives the same discount BEAST
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Was definitely working until early hours. As you said, gotta be quick. I didn't get any as I still have a decent amount.

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yeah that looks like the 45% off doubled down for a bit using mikes code, because it was down to only 10% yesterday. Ive noticed that MP often mess up with influencer codes early on in to new deals.
 
There are some inspirations in this thread for sure! :)

Somnambulist said:
‘Middle-aged now? RIP!’ only applies if you’re like most people and go increasingly potato mode with age. Basically no reason not to lift until you drop.
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This is definitely an issue with a lot of the population, the whole getting to middle age is essentially a reason to almost give up on health... and especially exercise in general. Sometimes I want to shake people into changing that mindset because it's so destructive, but quite easily changed instantly.

I think the younger generation seem to be more keen on gyms, health it appears than definitely when I was younger and my parents generation.... forget it.

My job basically got me into fitness, luckily it always keeps me a baseline. But I love being active, now I am pretty much middle age (I think.. 36 middle age? :) )

One area I have always struggled with though is weight training, only because I struggle to find it interesting, I have always loved cardio and circuit training. This last year I have completely changed things up by taking up kickboxing. I have dabbled with boxing in the past, but I have pretty much fully embraced learning kickboxing this year and I absolutely love it. This has also opened up more specific weight training which I can do, which can help performance in learning kickboxing.

Not only does it help with fitness... obviously (cardio is immensely challenging and improving) but the mental side of the training... I find the fact you literally zone into your movement, technique and almost like problem solve its incredibly powerful. In a weird way it exercises the mind as well.. not to sound cheesy.

I find it incredible that like we say, a lot of the population this is all alien to them, but it changes your life in positive ways.
 
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Wow that's dark... but cool at the same time!

No one believes I'm in my mid 40s and I punch above my weight for dads at my age - even at my martial arts club, people's description of me is "impressive". That's good enough for me!
 
I find it hard not to laugh at that, but appreciate it at the same time.

Felt like I needed some kind of change, so I've started eating a bit more scran and have opted to train my main movements in lower rep ranges. I've also decided to do most of my isolation work with resistance bands instead of weights. So far, it's been quite refreshing and I don't remember enjoying training as much as this.
 
Any one got my experience with the kneesovertoesguy stuff?

I am trying to put together a little routine I can do at the end of my regular leg day:

Poliquin Step up 3 x 25
ATG split squat 5 x 5
VMO Squat 5 x 10
Sledge 10m

How does that look?

Twice a week

I wouldn't mind doing 3 times a week but I feel my legs get a battering as it is. I do an upper lower so my lower already consists of 4 main exercises and the above is in addition too.

If I do 3 times a week and do M-W-F, I do my legs day on T-F so would effectively end up hitting the legs 4 days a week which seems excessive from a recovery perspective.

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Another way to do it which has the advantage of adding more load would be splitting it up over the week.

So:

Monday: Poliquin Step up
Tuesday: ATG split squat
Friday: VMO Squat

Then I can add load to it. So more frequency less volume.
 
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I still do, i warm up for every workout with 4-5 mins of backwards walking on a treadmill, and ive made sure to incorporate movements that are like the step ups vmo squats etc. I used to have a re-accuring knee issue thats barely even surfaced since, only ive really overdone it with to much walking etc
 
Argh, what I thought was going to be “happy new protein flavour day” hasn’t quite gone to plan. The MP chocolate brownie is insanely sweet. I have some out of date unflavoured stuff which I’m seriously considering mixing with it to help.
 
Definitely feeling the age creeping in lately, turning in to one of those 'weather is changing, can feel it in my joints'. Had a bit of a bad time with knee awhile ago and finally getting back in to training properly again.. Although its going well at the moment, I might attempt to see if I can beat my all time PBs next year once I've got form down for stuff like Deadlifts and havent squatted in a long while because of damaging knee and just doing constant rehab, lots of isolation work (more like lots of BSS :D )

Deadlift: 150
Squats: 140
Bench: 120
OHP: 90

Still a long way to go leg wise, but felt like old times.. until the next few days when I can barely walk again haha
 
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