Forum: Over Age 35

So just over a year ago I started lifting. Had never touched a barbell in my life. Things went good. I was doing 5x5 stronglifts. Last August in hit the 1000lb club. Then a couple months ago I got a concussion so took a couple weeks off. Then I fell on the ice and hit my head again. Ha. So had to...

So I've now made it a full 6 weeks of legitimately lifting consistently... only 4 weeks of following a real plan (modified Fierce 5). I'm not really doing rest days bur rather I've shifted the exercise routine to target arms/chest 1 day and legs/back the next day. giving each muscle group a day off...

Hi all Hi all I am a 43 year old dad of 5. In January 2020 I suffered a pulmonary embolism. Basically blood clots on both my lungs....I nearly died. I quickly realised I was not in the best of shape and as we just entered our first lock down in the UK I wanted to change my body and my bad eating...

Hey there I am 5'11 400 pounds 38 years old. I am looking at getting back into exercising. Losing weight is obviously the main goal. Any suggestions on supplements or exercise programs to maintain muscle and burn fat? I been looking at the supplements on here and not sure if I need any or what...

Have reoccurring rotator l cuff/labrum issues don’t do bench anymore. Do seated jammer pushups and dips. Any advice?

No date but rumour is gyms in UK reopen July if all is well. The uk's trade association for gyms ukactive has guidance which is fairly vague https://www.ukactive.com/covid-19 but does have specific things such as workout towels banned, 3m squared per person and obvious things about cleaning....

Not looking for sympathy we all value hard work and time devoted to our bodies. I used to stomp around in here so long ago, i dont even remember my old username. But I am looking for support and advice. Background is I'm 49 years old incredibly fit for my age at least in terms of cardio...

Hey all, just turned 47 this week, so definitely qualify in the 35+ group. The week before I turned the clock, I had my first stem cell treatment. A good friend of mine of over 15 years ago built his business from nothing and has become a huge success in just 3 short years. I had a heart murmur in...

About 8 years ago I started losing weight. Over a 2 year period I lost 108lbs (starting weight 335) I was misc'ing all day. Then I had two kids, hated my job , stopped reading the misc, etc.. and got off track I put 55lbs back on over the last 4 years.

20s had a lot of learning lessons. Any advice for someone who just turned 30?

I was cleaning up my basement/gym area this weekend and after the junk laying around my dip station was cleared, I figured what the heck, let's see what this feels like. I have been unable to do dips for probably 10 years or so due to wonky shoulders, but to my surprise, there was essentially zero...

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I use the playbook app to do my spin sessions. Gabriella guarvara is my go to person. However there were Gremlins in the mix! First I got booted out of my app, then my phone didn't recognize that I was casting so it kept shutting down. It also kept going into landscape mode causing my ride to...

Anyone else deal with patellar tendon pain? Jumper's Knee, I hear it's called. It showed itself several weeks ago. It gets really bad after leg day and a few days after. I took a break for two weeks. I spent one week on a cruise where I just did some light work with the machines on the cruise ship....

Hey, Been lifting for around 5 years and like everyone else did the bulks/cuts and sometimes went on longer bulks for bigger gains. I've just been diagnosed recently with type 2 diabetes... i believe this level has crept up during lockdown where i hadn't been training and continued to eat a...

After a few weeks of doing kinda stupid waste-of-time exercises because I didn't know any better I tried my first modified Fierce 5 routine yesterday. I substituted pull-ups for the face-pulls because I don't have any kind of cable machine (only completed 4 before I was too weak to get in another...

Hello, my name is Tomaz, I am about to be 41 years old (well hopefully anyway) and last June I was diagnosed with rectal cancer, stage IIIB with 4 positive lymph node. Cancer was 4x6 cm, so huge beast.... I had 6 three week cycles of Oxaliplatin IV / Capecitabine tablets treatments which...

Did he get offended that he didn't have a chest to begin with to be complaining about something that wasn't there?

I just got back to lifting in Dec. And set a goal of CT 's bench record for my age 67 and weight 222 bracket. I currently use 65-90 dumbbells 12 reps each as a warm up. Then switch to barbell to get to a goal of 260 x 6 which will get me to 312 max as a starting point on my way to 356. My...

I was recently told by my eye doctor to cut back on weight training. This will be at least a 5 week layoff but could potentially be several months or more. I currently run F5 U/L. My question is has anyone had success with higher reps and lower weights and if so what would the workout look like?...