Have come across these two Canadian doctors recently too. Don’t think there’s any sign of AI with them.
Squats.. knees say no. Pushups, used to do a hundred a day, now I manage about ten.
Back in the day I had 200kg shoulderpress, now down to 50, I can however still max out the butterfly machine and I max out the back stretcher.
I’m not sure but I don’t think it’s likely to be possible with GLP-1 meds as the weight you lose can be up to 40% muscle mass.
I suppose you can just try and keep as much as possible by eating more protein and resistance training.
I don’t think you need to be in a calorie excess, and gain fat, to put on muscle though.
(Many ‘body builders’ bulk with muscle and fat and then cut with a calorie deficit to lose the fat) but to do that is going to be quite extreme as I found out many years ago:
When I was much younger, and travelling, I lost a third of my body weight in a short time through illness.
I then got a job on a building site shortly after that (I could barely lift a sledge hammer on my first day let along swing it) and the first few weeks were the hardest physically in my life.
I ate so, so much though (carbs and chicken - especially as a local backpackers had a all-you-can-eat dinner for AU$5).
It was all pretty healthy though and I only had one small beer a week.
At the end of it all after three months, my trouser waist was loser than when I began so I had put on no, or little fat but just muscle.
I’ve got a photo somewhere of me sitting on top of a rock at Grampians National Park with more muscle than I have ever had in my life (relatively speaking!) and probably less than 10% body fat.
That’s a starting point - 3 sets of ten and then perhaps decline press-ups with your feet on a chair…
I can’t do many good-form press-ups and nor can most people if they do them properly.
There are plenty of isometric exercises too which don’t require equipment - wall sits, planks, static leg raises…
I only looked at a few seconds of one of the videos, but it looked non-AI generated to me.
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Strict overhead or “military” press? I mean, the world record is 217kg.
I am/was grinding towards 100kg strict press and managed to injure my shoulder at 70kg, 3 months ago. Haven’t lifted anything above my head (or did any chest press) for 3 months and going, starting physio next week as the pain isn’t going away no matter how much I “rest” it.
If you mean this, then same here, doesn’t actually feel like I am training anything.
That one, normally I fix a 25kg disk to it and lay back for about five minutes.
Shoulderpress, 200 on the machine, military press arond 120.
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Still freakishly strong!
A long time ago sadly.
I follow this guy - for years – he has a massive amount of free trainings in youtube – and he explains everything in minute detail. I highly recommend it Best Men’s Workout Plan | ATHLEAN-X
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What is your age?
Only if you break a hip bone or similar, other breaks don’t immobilise you if you are determined
My old doctor, now retired, said daily exercis to work the insulin receptors was the best way to avoid Type 2 diabetes is working for me so far.
I haven’t been for around 15 years, started going several times a week in my 50s.
I don’t remember what weights I could lift but once I lifted one of my son in laws sitting on my shoulders and walked around with him and he weighed over 90kg.
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1960, we did things different then.
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For me, age has brought connective-tissue issues. My right shoulder developed a long-term trapped nerve, so sometimes I need to get my arm in exactly the right position or my fingers go tingly. I can’t play my guitar anymore. A couple of weeks ago a nerve in my hip was trapped by inflammation (brought on, no doubt, by the constant work of This Old House). It started to ache dully, keeping me from sleeping, and after cold/heat, Voltadol, anti-inflammatories, etc., it’s still a problem. All I can do is stretch and rest the affected area(s), but it makes me think about how people lose mobility and how it can go dominos in no time!
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Older people, in general, with muscle wastage, lose the ability to balance and so are more likely to fall over.
Bones get brittle as people age too.
Reactions are slower and not natural so rather than break a wrist in a fall, they may bang their head with serious bleeding.
Of course there are ways to limit the effects of all this and prevent those sorts of falls all together by staying mobile, and in earlier years, taking the sort of exercise which strengthens bones and muscles.
It’s never too late to start.
@Marton: It looks like you’ve got the right idea with the swims and daily walks!
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Combined swimming / walking is good, as swimming alone does not prevent or slow oesteoperosis.
No problem! Drive until the battery is dead. Then turn around and bike home.
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I also combine swimming and walking and it works for me. I occasionally cycle too.
I let my fingers do the walking.
Timely article just out extolling the benefits of lifting weights, based on a fairly meaty study of almost 150K people over 30 years.
Researchers looked at data from three studies involving 147,374 men and women over 30 years.
They found those who consistently did between 90 minutes and two hours of weight training every week lowered the risk of premature death from any cause by 13%.
The risk of dying from cardiovascular disease – a heart attack or stroke for example – was 19% lower.
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