72...and Growing.

Can Older People Still Build Muscle?

Richard Sullivan at age 51.

Many people ask, “Can older people still build muscle?”

Of course they can. No matter what one’s age, the only significant physical obstacle that affects older people’s ability to build brand new lean muscle mass versus younger people is wear and tear. It’s astonishing how many people never rehab their injuries and seem perfectly fine accepting diminished physical capacity.

Older people also ask, “Why is it harder for older people to achieve their desired results when trying to add muscle?”

There could be multiple reasons for this, starting with wear and tear. As we go through life we suffer injuries. Moreover we pick up habits that degrade us physically, like poor standing and sitting posture, poor walking technique and more.

Use It Or Lose It.

Add to that years, or decades, of physical inactivity. If your muscles have not been challenged for thirty years, it’s going to take some time and effort to get up to speed once again. It’s not just machines that get creaky and slow due to a lack of use; our bodies do as well. 

Also, the average person who is chronologically in his/her twenties is fresh and new compared to someone chronologically 50 or older. Young males have far more testosterone coursing through their veins, allowing them more stamina during their workout and less time needed to recover and repair afterward. Their joints are more flexible overall, their skin more taut.

On average most young people are inherently stronger overall because they are chronologically newer with comparatively little self-inflicted damage such as that suffered by older people’s decades of inactivity, obesity, smoking, prescription drugs, junk food diets and unrehabilitated injuries. Plus many older people have a mental block, believing or wishing to believe that it’s too late because they have suffered too much damage at this point, or it’s too difficult and exhausting, or "what’s the use at my age anyway?"

It’s only too late if you’re reading this in your casket. People who don’t want to change will find multiple convenient ways not to because they will have a lot of support from likeminded others, but those who do want to change will find a way.

Just Saying Words Doesn't Make It So.

I can't be the only one troubled by the normalization of lies and spin. It's trickling down from everywhere lately, from the "president" to the "attorney general" to everyday people. Shawn Mendez should feel humiliated at this promo, especially considering the literally hundreds of thousands of men online truly having "massive biceps."

This Guy States He Lost Half A Pound A Day For 150 Days...

...and he worked out twice a day.

Click this LINK to see more photos that are even more impressive than these.

The Absurdity Of “Vegans” —and GQ Magazine.

LINK to this absurd drek

GQ magazine, the magazine/website/blog I love to hate, insists on continuing to try to sell us ridiculously expensive ugly clothes (Chanel!) —and even uglier ideas.

Do you know how many “vegans” there are in the US? Take a guess. Nope, you’re wrong. Waaay less than that. There are a little over ONE million, out of a population of 327 million. So what is with the media in general harping continually on this tiny, TINY misguided group of outliers? Everywhere we turn we are blasted with vegan propaganda as if this eating disorder disguised as a health movement actually matters, or that significant numbers of people are adherents. They’re surely not.

Ridiculousness hit a new low at GQ Magazine, Conde-Nast's misguided stepchild, this week with this article aimed at the absolutely minuscule number of bodybuilders who would even consider going “vegan.” And just for the sake of definition, anyone seeking to increase their volume of lean muscle mass is a “body-builder.”

To be clear, you can’t build muscle without animal protein and lots of it. Someone whose brain is so screwed up that it makes sense to them that trying to build muscle while at the same time depriving their muscles of the very nutrients required to build, strengthen and expand muscle could benefit from therapy.

One’s choice of food, its volume and its timing have historically been utilized as a control mechanism for human beings who feel that they have lost control or are out of control. The media only bolsters this dysfunction with its obsession with diets and food-based movements. One look at the staff at this Conde-Nast GQ rag will tell you they know nothing about diet, and even less about exercise. But that has never stopped them from spreading the unfounded and the ridiculous.

As always, I propose that you dismiss any health or fitness articles that don't include a full length photo of the author, which at present would eliminate about 99%. Granted, clueless people don't equate the authenticity of the fitness or diet advice they're receiving with the physical condition of the person delivering it, as fat Dr. Phil's best-selling diet and exercise books, and fitness-related TV infomercials featuring totally out of shape spokespersons have vividly proven.

As a side note, this week a so-called Vegan YouTube “Star” was caught eating meat on video and her whole fake world exploded along with her income stream, so there’s that—people who are YouTube and Instagram famous milking their schtick for every last penny while lying and fabricating and Photoshopping.

Instagram Inspiration

LINK: https://www.instagram.com/roguewave2/

Doctors and Other Misinformed "Experts"

This is a photo of me around the time I was told, with a straight face by a doctor who I was considering as my new physician—and I kid you not here—“You’re overweight ACCORDING TO "THE CHART" and you’ll have to lose 15 lbs.” I was wearing a tank top at the time.

It brings to mind the old joke: 

Question: What do you call the person who graduates last among his classmates in Medical School?

Answer: "Doctor."

World Champion Long Distance Swimmer Ross Edgely was told by medical “professionals” after having a full body scan that he had “very few physical attributes to be a good swimmer.” He went on to swim the full circumference of Great Britain. He set the world record in 2018 taking 2,300,000 strokes.

I and others have been informed by doctors that “The Chart” states we have "normal" testosterone at around 270 dL. Keep in mind that this ludicrous chart which serves as their Bible states that “normal” lies anywhere between 270 dL. and 1070 dL.! So, to clarify, those with 1070 dL.—ALMOST 4 times the amount of testosterone as someone with a 270 dL. reading, are considered EQUALLY NORMAL? And thus those in the low range do not qualify for testosterone replacement therapy?

Your doctor may spout this preposterous logic-defying bullshit without batting an eye, so invested are they in not questioning their "charts" or the outdated crap they learned in med school.

If you are seeking testosterone replacement, and your doctor says no, remind him that in today’s social climate, if a 16 year old girl came into his office with a psychiatrist’s note affirming that she was emotionally a male, for no other reason other than she believed it to be true, that rather than risk blowback from the LGBTQ powers that be in our crazily “politically correct” and litigious environment, he would most surely provide that biological female with testosterone, while at the same time declining to provide the essential hormone to YOU as a biological male.

 These same doctors admit prescribing needless, uncalled-for antibiotics to patients who "insist" on having them despite the overall harm done, because, as widely reported in the media, they feel "pressured" by the patient to do so. What? They respond to pressure from patients who insist on being prescribed needless and potentially harmful  antibiotics, but do not respond to pressure from men suffering with a myriad of hellish physical and emotional problems that will be successfully treated by TRT? Who the hell is in charge here anyway? 

These same doctors have no qualms about prescribing a pharmaceutical like Propecia, which has potential serious side effects—and is shown to be ineffective overall—to attempt to “regrow” lost hair in older men, or others having potential serious side effects. They prescribe Cialis and Viagra to allow guys who can’t or have no desire to get it up to achieve an erection when the actual problem is LOW TESTOSTERONE. Yet many doctors, based either on willful ignorance or their own lack of initiative in keeping current per the latest findings debunking the mistaken beliefs they were force-fed in medical school, recoil at restoring the essential natural testosterone we as males once had.

The absence of testosterone causes diminishment of overall QUALITY OF LIFE. This deficit is responsible for the loss of lean muscle mass (within which our immune system resides), strength, fitness, positive outlook, emotional equilibrium, stamina, metabolism, and one's loss of interest in previously cherished goals and interests. Low test is responsible for belly fat accumulation, man-boobs, softening of the skin and other manifestations of unwanted feminization.

Your doctor might spout risk factors based on invalidated  "studies" in an attempt to dissuade you. Not one person in the US in 2018 could be shown to have died nor been seriously injured stemming directly from testosterone replacement therapy, as opposed to say, Tylenol, which killed 450 Americans in 2017 and accounts for about 50,000 emergency room visits and 25,000 hospitalizations yearly.—and any 5 year old little child can buy Tylenol at the corner 7-11 with no doctor protesting that! 

Additionally, previously published 2013 flawed studies in JAMA claiming negative outcomes or bad side effects from testosterone replacement therapy have since been debunked, and multiple medical organizations (17 in number) have petitioned JAMA to REMOVE these 2013 studies from their journal and research materials. Testosterone replacement in truth has shown clinically to be of enormous BENEFIT, in case your doctor is lagging in his required keeping up with all things medical, as many inexplicably and unethically are.

Watch the video below by this Harvard Medical School Professor that debunks all the "findings" regarding cardiac risks associated with testosterone:

For DECADES the world's doctors based their treatment of men with prostate cancer on a circa 1941 (!!) ABSURDLY FLAWED "study" by a Nobel Prize-winning physician that involved only ONE PATIENT. Watch this video debunking the Prostate Cancer MYTH risk of testosterone:

We have to fight for what is right, for that which supports and preserves our quality of life as we age, and AGAINST that which robs us of it.

He's 72—and Rockin' It!

Ed Myska
Fitness Over 60’ish:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/161780161129784/?multi_permalinks=329182084389590&notif_id=1552326004884904&notif_t=group_highlights

...and this is what 74 looks like:

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