The "older" BB-er

[EZ_E]

I'm gonna be 37 this year. With each year I feel like I don't get older, I get BETTER...

Granted, learning more and more over the years(Thanks EF) have greatly contributed to that, but when I think it's just me I look around on the gym floor and see a plethera of avergae or below average physiques. Then I see some of the regulars in the 35-40-50 crowd. Gray hair, lines on their face, yet guys that look like they just fell out of a BB magazine...Fantastic athletes who get 2nd, 3rd, 4th looks...

I watch the Olympia and a good number of the competitors are around that 35 y.o. mark...

I come to EF and I see the best, most knowledegable, posts by guys like Nelson and Radar, guys who aren't old, but maybe considered old by "athletic" standards...

The point is, unlike a sport like football, baseball, etc where 35 is condidered old, with bodybuilding it seems to me that the older athlete is the better athlete....

Congratulations to all the guys pushing (or at) 40 who can still shine...


~EZ

 

[RADAR]

As the metabolism slows down I am able to put on more mass than i did in my thirties,I sure get the looks in the gym,I have had people ask how old am i when i tell them ,i always get "you sure don't look 58" proof exercise slows the aging process.

RADAR

 

[hesnobradpitt]

Very true im 40 and i feel i know more about how to change things on me now than ever ,i think as you get older it means more and you slow down and look harder at your self lol.


Brad.

 

[perryscoon]

Mr. O is 37. That answer you question?

 

[ArmaniAK47]

Platz is still a badass, isn't he in his 60's?

anyways good job kicking ass, I want to be like you guys when I'm that age! and I want you all to still be on here ripped giving me advice in that year, 10-20-30ish years from now. lol

 

[genetics]

Well said bros....i'm 37 too and sure do get THE LOOKS from not only people at the gym, but folk all around!!

 

[gstacker]

38yo you can tell I do my jumping jacks

wish I had all my knowlage as a young man... Youngsters got it made nowdays with this Internet stuff....

 

[Nelson Montana]

Actually, a man's physical peak is around age 40. Stamina drops a little, which effects most sports, but that's when you're at your strongest. The reason it's considered "old" with athletes is because you don't have as many good years left so it's not as good of an investment to hire anyone over 35.

 

[sweed]

I agree with the older guys seem to be in better shape than the younger kids. Those kids in teens and 20's just are in there dickin around, on the phone, chatting 10-15 minutes inbetween set. I see the older guys pounding away. My new gym, all youngers guys mostly so the workouts are pretty funny! lol

I'm 27,but look 16, so I guess it does work! lol

 

[zedhed]

49 and just getting better and better