Also something to keep in mind, according to Peter Attia who specializes in this stuff, after the age of 40 your body takes more protein to get the same anabolic effect than before you turn 40.

I need to finish the book so I can find out what the ratio is, I'm 52 so .75g per lb may be closer to maintenance.

I’m familiar with how it works.

It’s just bullshit that my body can make me a fat piece of shit if I eat a surplus of calories, but it can’t figure out how to process a surplus of protein.

Without researching I would guess this may be related to T levels which start dropping around age 40 as well.

@mods can we get the year removed from title so it is just All Things Fitness?

Thanks Mods!

MRI on already surgically repaired achilles next week. Getting old is fun!

I'm going to start long term hgh tomorrow. I have enough for 4iu daily for a year. I'm excited about the healing benefits. We'll see how long it takes to start seeing changes in old nagging injuries and skin improvement. In particular, I'm interested in what it can do (if anything) for my shoulders. I haven't been able to bench press seriously in about a year. I've been stuck doing machine presses and cable work for chest.

UGL or one of the online places like TRTNation?

UGL. The supplier has been tested many times and comes out good in every test. 191 amino acid chain is 191 amino acid chain.

Keep us updated. I might give it a shot at some point.

2022-2023 was the year of OOOOOLD...I turned 52 (I'll be 53 in a week) and in the year leading up to that and this year, I kinda hit a brick wall. Started having serious pain in my shoulder, so I had to adjust lifting. Then had knee and hip bullshit, got sick (not Covid) and various other crap that kept me from the gym.

Gained a lot of weight, (I'm up to 220 or so now) and even though my muscle stayed relatively even, I did put on some fat. Then I just had surgery on my feet to fix my f-ed up toes on both feet, so now I have those stupid surgical shoes to wear. Add to that, it's the holidays, I like my whiskey and I'm about to be 53, and well...shit just ain't as "easy" as it used to be.

Still trying to get 125+ mg of protein (that's not enough, but damn...it's a lot), and I'm doing in home dumbell stuff till the first of the year when I get back to Orange Theory.

It doesn't get any easier that's for sure. I think the days of 200lbs are in the rear view at this point.

Couldn’t bench because of the Lat tear?

How’s back work feel now?

Yeah. I started having shoulder issues because there's not the same lat power to keep my shoulder girdle down and locked so my left shoulder rolls up and forward. It gave me a nasty case of biceps tendonitis and it caused a lot of AC joint pain. It's finally starting to get back to normal (I'm not getting a click and pop every time I lift my arm), but I had to spend a long time using super light weight to train my other muscles to compensate and stabilize the shoulder.


Back work, surprisingly, is alright for the most part. I can't do any wide grip overhead stuff like wide pull ups or lat pulls, but near shoulder width or narrow is fine. Rowing motions are fine. I'm terrified to deadlift more than 275 now because it feels weird.


Through it all, though, I've transitioned to a higher rep scheme with a focus on complete squeeze and contraction, and 30 seconds of static hard flex after each set. It seems to be paying off. I think my days of anything resembling heavy is over.

please post a video of you waddling around in your special boots.


thx

How many reps/sets are you doing now? I’m seriously thinking of going that direction. I’m 48 and incorporating more agility stuff. Lifting heavy just isn’t feeling good anymore.