Forum: Over Age 35

Hello everyone. Just got back into lifting after a 15 year hiatus. I’m a 41 year old male. I’m 6’-1” and I’m pretty good shape. I’ve been following the Allpro routine for 12 weeks to date. My starting weight was 175lbs and I am now at 185.8, adding about 1lb a week on average. The past two...

Might be a bit lengthy so I'll put the bottom line up front, I want to set an extremely ambitious goal and participate in something like an amateur show, perhaps within 1 to 1.5 years. I feel like I finally have the willpower to stick to it, but I don't have the knowledge where to start. Longer...

I'm a 46 year old male who has been heavy to overweight since childhood. I participated in sports and worked physical jobs until late university but was never athletic and worked a desk job for the last 25 years. I've gained a pound or 2 each year since university with no real thought given to diet...

Hi, I just turned 60 and I'm looking for some direction to get in better shape. I'm 6'1" and have weighed 174 since college. Yes I'm an ectomorph/hard gainer. My goals are to improve core strength, reduce stomach fat and improve upper-body muscle definition so I look better in the mirror...

I'm relatively new to this and have put together a diet plan but I think it could be optimized so hoping some experience here could help me improve it. Male, 36yo, 168lb, 5,9: TDEE - 2087 Currently lifting at home for 6 weeks and following the Fierce 5 Dumbell program My goal is to put on...

I play paddle and racket sports when I'm not pumping iron. When it's hot out I break a pretty good sweat and work really hard when I come home my clothes smell like ammonia. I've found this to mean I'm burning muscle. The day after it feels like I jumped in a pool of Piranha and they took little...

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Hello fellow bodybuilders. I'm 35 and I've been lifting for 3 months. I hated being thin so bulked during this period. I started at 64kgs and now I'm 72. I always eat enough proteins and carbs during this bulking and actually seeing good results. But now I don't know how to continue....

Hi all, I am 37 year old male and i have been working out on/off the past 10 years or so. I am currently 81 kilos and 179cm height - my lately Boditrax scan showed a 25.3 BMI, 16.9% fat (13.7kg) and 79% muscle (64kg). I want to drop my fat percentage mainly while staying toned because i have...

Hey All, I have a couple of questions regarding the topic in the subject line, If I have been on a bulking phase for the last 7 months, and I have a dead line like a summer beach vacation, how long before such dead line would I want to start cutting to shade some of the extra fat? I suppose...

So I'll try to keep this brief. I'm 40 y/o, 5'10" 185 lbs and roughly 20.5 percent bf. I started boxing about ten years ago and fought competitively for five years. Once I hit 35 y/o and stopped competing I still did some boxing training and started training others for a couple years after...

Hello I am very out of shape. Never really worked out before. I walk a lot. Drink a lot of beer every day. Time to stop. I was gifted 2 kettlebells recently. 16kg and 8kg. Can you please recommend some essential exercises that I can do every day with these? I have googled and read about...

Hey guys. Ended cut in december and slowly began increasing calories in January. Weight went from 167-173 during this time. Routine-wise i ran a couple Mindpump strength programs and just recently finished Canditos 6week strength routine. Strength is maybe slightly up in a few lifts. Not sure if i...

Been training for years and lost a little momentum after a move. I am back and going strong, but my chest just seems flabby. I do not bench a bunch due to a wrist surgery a while back. My diet is good, I don't drink heavily and if I do its a bourbon on the rocks. I am on a 4 day workout split,...

Afternoon Fellas, I’ll spare you a novel of a back story; there isn't much of one anyway. I’m 47, havent lifted seriously in a couple years, life got in the way. I dont have any conditions, or major afflictions other then a temperamental knee and a tight lower back. In 2010 at my best I was 199lbs...

I’m 6’3 and weighed 190 when I started (first picture). I weighted 210 in the second picture. I’m guessing my bodyfat went up 5%. So did I gain 10lbs fat and 10lbs of muscle? What do you think based on the picture? Is that a pretty good result for my first bulk? My waist went from 33in to 36in....

We've all heard the statistics that something like 40 percent of Americans are either overweight or obese, and I've heard even higher than that. It's probably a nice ego boost for many of us, thinking we're more fit than the majority of men and women. But is this misleading? Technically anyone...

For the last 15 months I've done 3 days of weights (~75 mins) with a 30 min walk + 3 days of road/mountain biking (2x75-90 mins + 1x3-5 hours). This is only 1 day of weights more than I did for the preceding decade. I don't have any of the symptoms of over-training. My bike wattage/gym strength...

I have a severe mobility disability which inhibits me from doing squats , lunges etc ive tried it all, however, leg extensions don’t hurt especially when I don’t go to 90degrees and don’t lock out. however I see alot of flack for leg extension but a guy in my position is either that or just...

Lovin the Animal supps. My question is if I am taking the "Animal Test", should I still use pre-workout? It says to take em 45mins prior to workout, I did it with a pre last weekend and felt awful. Should I do pre, then post with Test? Also, creatine is super popular, should I be taking it?...

I started lifting weights about 3 years ago at age 42. I got hooked. I got a personal trainer to move from machines to free weights and learned a lot, mostly dumbbell stuff though. However, my trainer wouldn’t show me deadlift and squats due to my age. Said that was a “young man’s game and...