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Over 40 Weight Lifting Advantages



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Over 40 Weight Lifting Advantages


In a society increasingly preoccupied with antiaging, more people begin serious training later in life. Did they miss the boat by not starting as teenagers, when energy and hormones run at their highest? You could say that, but then again they used to say that about having children. Now having children a little later in life is seen as smarter because of the advantages more mature, established couples have over their young counterparts. I can make the same arguments for weight lifting.

Clearly you are ultimately better off if fitness has been a life long pursuit. “Abusing” your body as a youth (which I consider up to 30) is like not saving for retirement as a young person. You miss out on the time frame when gains are the easiest and getting that head start can but you way ahead by the time you reach 40. BUT, by the same token you have advantages at 40 you didn’t have at 20 and as I like to say “it’s a long game (hopefully)”.

The body is an amazing living organism, capable of adapting to changing circumstances and fixing automatically a lot of the things that go wrong with it. But not everything. There is a school of thought that suggests that the body is also like a “machine”, and that machines only have a finite number of “repetitions” in them. I believe there is some truth to this in that your joints and ligaments can not repair themselves. You tear your ACL or rotator cuff and they remain that way until they are surgically repaired.

Hence your first advantage as a late starter to weight lifting is that at 40 you don’t already have 20 years of weight lifting wear on your unrepairable body parts. This matters and helps a lot, if you plan to life to 80. A person that has been seriously lifting for 20 years has joint aches and pains that generally don’t go away and don’t get 100% better ever. How then do you suppose their joints will feel with 20 more years of lifting use? They will only be 60 then. Remember, it’s a long game (hopefully).

Youth may have boundless energy and enthusiasm, but patience and wisdom are often in very short supply. Theoretically, we all learn and grow mentally and emotionally as we get older, and that can serve us well as we train in middle age. Your odds of doing things the right way and not making foolish mistakes and errors in judgment lessen significantly. Because muscle growth is a very gradual process and requires a good deal of knowledge and strategy, an older person can have the upper hand. I am the perfect example of this. I tried, sporadically, for years to build muscle and was unsuccessful. It wasn’t until I became 40 that things started working for me. My body didn’t change. My attitude and approach did. That only came, for me at least, with age.

Lastly, your resources as an older person, far exceed that of your youth, normally, and that matters. A lot. How you ask? You can join a better gym than you could afford as a youth? Well, yes, sort of. Have you ever noticed all the magazines extolling the workout regimens of celebrities? Drop 30 lbs like so and so. Get ripped and buff like so and so. Have you ever stopped to think we these celebrities can be so successful in their body transforming endeavors, even into middle age? They have unlimited resources. They can hire chefs, nutritionists, personal trainers and they don’t have to go 9 to 5 then go work out. Getting in shape for them is their job. So do resources help? You bet. Maybe not to the extreme that resources do celebrities, but at 40 you can feed yourself, good nutritious food that the average 21 year old student may not.

Life is a journey, and your goal should be to look as good, feel as good and enjoy all that life has to offer for as long as you live. Muscle building is a proven “quality of life” enhancer. No matter when you start.

Just start.

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