He seems to miss the power of how adaptive the human body can be with a person that is middle aged, and healthy.
I wish I had my original pic when I started. I list myself at 5' 7", but I am actually closer to 5' 6.11 1/2"
. The closest pic to when I started, most of you have already seen, and this was approximately 4 months or so into my 30 pound fat tissue loss quest. I was 190ish pounds at the beginning, had man boobs, and could litterally where a bra, and wore 40 inch pants. My arm size was about 12", and I was an old, weak, middle aged man, truth be told. In addition, my chest size was under 36", and I had no back muscles to speak of (hell I didnt know I had lats, until they starting showing up--what are those things, lol).
I looked every bit the part of one aging and declining; showed many signs of age related biological function decline that naturally occur as we age. There is no doubt.
When I started, I could barely bench press 40lbs (not including Olympic bar), barely peform 2 to 3 pushups, barely perform 3 half-up situps, and on and on with the like fitness weaknesses.
But through diet and fitness, it did in fact turn things around, and the doc needs his own head medically examined.
Dare I say it! If I had
no physical progress all the time I had sweated and bled in my diet and fitness quest, I would have flat gave up along time ago due to severe lack of progress. But this wasnt the case.
I can now peform over 100 pushups in one go, over 300 half-up situps in one go, and bench twice my weight (my current weight 160-161), dropped 30 pounds, gained about 4 inches on my arms (they are 16"), my chest is in the lower to mid 40's in size (43 to 45), and my waist is 29 to 30 inches, and to be blunt, and I dont say this often, so give me a break, I have abs that some persons my age only dream about. Alot of the fat tissue weight I lost, was also replaced with muscle tissue weight gained. At one point, I was 152-154, and I am now 160 to 161, and in BETTER muscular condition than former weight, AND lower body fat.
The doc needs his head examined to get it functioning more properly.
It is in fact true we do decline as we age, and associated biological functions concerning growth do in fact decline as we age, but it is NOT true we cannot grow muscle. I still have a fairly efficient body. It will EASILY put on the fat pounds if I am not careful, but it will take it off just as easily when the fat supply is in bulk, and tends to be somewhat of a bastard below 10%.
My point here I am making is the one over 40 can in fact improve their situation. However, it is true we decline as we age.
I will admit, one thing. Considering my progress being middle aged and keeping all things equal in diet and fitness, I think its fairly safe to say, that if I was 20 years younger, the results could have been much improved. I dont concern myself with the things I can not control but only the things I can.
I am the missing link, in evolution!
He, he, (reference the ID thread)
Chillen
Behold the power of the mind. I embrace my physical limitations, my mental limitations, my biological feed back within my diet and training, and maintain a consistency of being personally combative. This makes my body combative in return and embrace the change I desire.
