has any of you "made it", physically speaking, in your 30s or 40s? or is it too late? as in becoming a fitness beast, or really strong?

>>76279199 (OP)
No, give up without trying

>>76279199 (OP)
It doesnt matter because you'll never put in the work. If you really wanted it, you'd already be lifting and not worried about some arbitrary timeline.
If someone does tell you a timeframe you find acceptable, you'll go the gym then quit in a few months when you see no progress and then go back to making "how to achieve" threads with a pic of Gooky the anime character waiting for someone to "redpill" you on how to get jacked without doing anything. loser

>>76279199 (OP)
"making it" is a mindset.

>>76279199 (OP)
> Run track in college
> 6'4" 165 lbs
> Graduate and do nothing for 7 years
> Get to 183 lbs
> Turn 30 and realize I want to be strong
> 32 in 1 month and I'm 225 lbs and can bench 225 for 8 and Squat 315 for 5

I've by no means made it, I want to be 240 lbs. I'm actually shooting for 250 then a cut to 240. It's really wild that every year I can hit the previous years max for 10 reps. I'm only just now taking it seriously, going from 9 workouts per month to 3x per week. Also I started protein powder and am researching warm ups.

>>76279199 (OP)
cannot be done without drugs if you have no sports background whatsoever and no, some years in high school does not count
>joints will literally explode
>dont want exploding joints, progress is super slow
>recovery is literally pain, have to give up alcohol everything
>risk of injury over 9000
>heart whatever problems etc
all in all, not worth the risk, casual lifting is sure fine but dieting and doing some hypertrophy or strenght program is a fast way to fucked up everything

>>76279282
i'm gonna lift, just setting my expectations
>>76279356
yeah, my recovery is shit, i'll try to fix my sleep and relax more somehow, but not surprised most youtubers end up juicing at some point

It's so crazy to me that everyone seems to just give up on life in their 30s or 40s, acting like you are 70yo or something like that and that your body is breaking down. If your body is breaking down that young then it's most likely because you lived a sedentary life and used a million substances. It's not a normal part of aging to fall apart in your thirties

>>76279199 (OP)
in your 30s and 40s just do test at that point

>>76279399
all old men i knew in my youth in their 50s and 60 were totally wrecked and toothless, men today seem to have a much longer shelf life, seems to be the opposite to me, people give up less now

>>76279199 (OP)
It doesnt matter because you'll never put in the work. If you really wanted it, you'd already be lifting and not worried about some arbitrary timeline.
If someone does tell you a timeframe you find acceptable, you'll go the gym then quit in a few months when you see no progress and then go back to making "how to achieve" threads with a pic of Gooky the anime character waiting for someone to "redpill" you on how to get jacked without doing anything. loser

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>>76279299
why are jewish bots posting this? demoralization campaign? it's just a question

>>76279424
because its true?

>>76279442
jewish lies are never true by definition

>>76279447
Then I guess its not a jewish lie, is it?
Its the life a 4channer. Well, 99% of them anyway.

>>76279413
Major cope

>>76279199 (OP)
Well not really making it by baseline standards plus I'm not quite to the end yet
But I went from 60 to 28 BMI in the last 16 months at age 32
First time since probably 7yo not being obese
But my body is a horror show lmao
Focusing on building muscle under the skin flaps to feel slightly less shit about it but it is what it is

>>76279462
i swear they looked like grandpas at 50

>>76279462
NTA, but he's absolulety right. I'm about the same age as Archie Bunker, the skipper from Gilligans Island and Boss Hogg from Dukes of hazzard (early 50s). I'm blasting roids, never looked better and in great health. All those people I named looked like 75 year olds do today.
Most people who are my age still look like shit and overweight with lots of health problems though. That's mostly because they haven't had any exercise since high school gym class.

>>76279469
Wilford Brimley was only 50 years old in the movie Cocoon

>>76279489
You are a roidtranny so your opinion is disregarded. Enjoy shriveling up like a gay raisin the second you stop using juice

>>76279505
>you will look as bad as every other natty your age
well holy shit you convinced me to stop. Much better to look a "grey raisin" my whole life instead of years from now.
I dont even have any grey hairs except a few in my beard anyway.
You'll be balding and greying by age 30. loser

>>76279505
also I thought roids make you age faster and get all wrinkly? That's what 4chan nattytrannys meme about all day long any way

>>76279517
It doesn't matter if you stop, you've already permanently fucked yourself so you might as well keep going. You will now seethe about this because you know it's the truth

>>76279525
How have I permanently fuck myself up? Be specific.
Because my doctor doesnt seem to think so
>in b4 "you're infertile ahhhhh!"
who cares I'm in my 50s dipshit

Question. Why do people want to be ripped when they’re destined to become a lot weaker over time?

It’s a lot more advantageous to work on cunning, experience, etc.

Doesn’t matter how strong you are when someone stabs you in the jugular and you bleed out like a bitch.

Even someone significantly weaker than you, can kill you, using basic sense.

>>76279539
Because meatheads think with muscles not brains? I don’t know what to tell you.

>>76279539
What does being stabbed in the neck have to do with this thread?
And since you brought it up, telling all about your "cunning gains" and life experience.
Oh let me guess you're a dipshit 14 year old who watch too many reruns of Macgyver.

>>76279539
What does being stabbed in the neck have to do with this thread?
And since you brought it up, tell us all about your "cunning gains" and life experience.
Oh let me guess you're a dipshit 14 year old who watch too many reruns of Macgyver.

>>76279539
quality bait

>>76279547
>being strong and having brains are mutually exclusive
>people who are ripped never train for self-defence, martial arts etc
ahahaha homo nerd wimp is mad

>>76279547
Yeah, well, you’ve never heard the saying “the brain is like a muscle”? No? Never?

Being able to think on the spot, to think critically and to avoid something from happening, is a lot more advantageous than being strong.

A frail old man with a shotgun is going to kill a roided bodybuilder every time.

Smarts and cunning and the ability to think and plan accordingly is next gen warfare even. To prevent the fight altogether. Or to end it as soon as it starts.

Why be a gunman when you can make guns or plant bombs?

>>76279199 (OP)
i did physically speaking, but still no gf. the bigger issue is confidence and being less introvert and so on, making it physically speaking helps with those issues but it's not enough

i will say though that even with no gf, being strong(er) is great, absolutely worth it. my only regret is that i didn't do it sooner. it would have given me more time to work on my other issues

>>76279534
I'd rather watch you freak out and deny reality more. I don't even need to convince you of anything, since you already know what I'm saying to be true anyways

>>76279199 (OP)
>30s
too late
>40s
WAYYY too late

>>76279560
>What does being stabbed in the neck have to do with this thread?
Why look like a roided freak when it won’t matter even in a life or death scenario that transcends your physical ability to stop it?

>>76279565
Martial arts won’t prevent a gun from killing you. The Chinese thought this when commies took over. They all died.

>>76279733
>>76279741
I understand now. Its better to go through life just being a fat lazy slob because the odds are someone will just come up to you at random and stab you neck and there's nothing you can do about it. No point in having a nice house or anything either.

>>76279615
I'm glad you admit you were just repeating retard bullshit you learned from 4chan meme

>>76279759
The future of warfare is a fat overweight slob masturbating behind a computer screen directing drones a thousand miles away to blow up innocent sand people.

>>76279821
>innocent sand people
>innocent
>people
lol

>>76279199 (OP)
It's stupidly simple anon.
Yes, if you start late, the best that you can be is not as good as the best you could have been had you started earlier.
And yes, it is most certainly not as good as the best that people can be.
But it is surely a lot better than what you are now. Why fret about your current potential instead of fretting about meeting that potential, whatever it may be?
If you get demoralized now, you'll be in your 50s look at 'copers' who started in their 30s or 40s who look and feel much better than you ever have, and all you'll have to show for it is 20 years of photos showing your unmitigated decline and dereliction of duty to yourself, trust that you'll be coping in more pathetic ways than a 37 year old bald guy doing his first bench. What kind of fucking retard would consign themselves to that fate?
If you are at all smart, you would leave this place forever and spend any minute you would spend here working on your body and mind.

I knew dudes who started lifting in their 40s and made the same kind of progress young guys make, the only problem was a slightly higher injury risk

>>76279199 (OP)
If you can deadlift, bench and squat 225 for 3 sets of 10 then you are pretty much already as big as you need to be for women to find you attractive. I am not saying this is the only reason you should lift but it's certainly a factor. Most men who dont lift will respect you (which is the vast majority of men). By this metric you've probably all made it. As far as personal goals are concerned you will never make it and dyel?

>>76279199 (OP)
Define making it. There was a women who started lifting after she retired and after a few years she competed in bodybuilding contests for old women
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>>76279467
Good job anons

>>76279539
It’s true. Cunning is the superior form of fighting.

>>76279282
>>76279377
>>76279413
>>76279442
>>76279629
Why are you even on here with this kind of mindset.

>>76279777
Seething

>>76279199 (OP)
I hit my goal lifts at 37, ohp of 255 and bench press of 430

>>76280235
I'm in my 20s, I'm not a oldcel millennial who never made it and will never make it.

Yeah. I was always athletic from my teens to mid-30s, but never super-built or really strong, just a bro lifter who played rugby in college and had a decent beach bod. Then I found this place after taking up rugby again and (inb4 millions of seething DYELs and powerlfiting slampigs at 45% BF) did SS for three months, then switched to 5/3/1, and went from 180 to 200 at 6' and still maintained ~12% BF at 40 years old, about a five-year process at my peak and where I've remained since, and I'm now 50.

1RMs:
>bench: ~400
>OHP: 275
>squat: ~500
>deadlift ~600

Just eat right, get sleep, lift regular observing the principles of proper programming (progressive overload, deloading, etc.), and you'll make it.

The fucking mires I get and the asshurt from lardasses are fucking gold, man. Being fit in middle age is almost better than being a young stud because there's virtually no competition. All the divorced MILFs want my number and all the young girls hope their men are built like I am when they're old.

I hope I'm not coming off like I think I'm some Chad because I'm not one, I'm just illustrating the point that it's doable for anyone willing to put in the work.

>>76279199 (OP)
Just work out to be healthy. Stop thinking you are going to be some model or nonsense. If you get cut and hot great! If not you are still better off than before.

>>76280410
can i reach blaha-mode at least without roiding?

>>76279199 (OP)
It's never too late to be better than you currently are.

>>76279199 (OP)
Physically in my 30s I am strongest I have ever been.
Could have done it earlier, but it took years of getting it wrong and finally having my own place to fully get into training.

You'll probably notice your recovery is slower, and you can get away with doing things wrong (cheating on your diet, skipping sessions, not sleeping enough, that sort of thing) a lot less than if you'd started in your 20s, but I'm in my 30s and I'm stronger and leaner than I've ever been

also why the fuck are people arguing about whether muscles save you from getting stabbed? if being murdered is a legitimate concern where you live, then you should have spent your time making enough money to move to a nicer area where that isn't a concern

>>76279199 (OP)
In your 30's and especially 40's you shouldn't be competing with guys in their 20's. You're competing with the guys in your age bracket. The good thing about this is as you move up through these age brackets the percentage of men in those age brackets who lift gets smaller and smaller so you're competing with less and less people in terms of being thought of as "the fit guy/the strong guy". The contrast between "out of shape 40 year old" and "40 year old who still exercises" is much starker than it is for guys in their 20's. Also the standard you have to achieve to get that "fit/strong guy" title is lower as generally no-one expects a guy above 40 to be in the same shape as a guy half his age (outside of actors who get paid to do it). So young guys who may be bigger and stronger and leaner will still respect you in a "you're in good shape for your age" way, to which you reply "thanks, I just do some dumbbells a few times a week". Add this to all the medically proven benefits of lifting weights for older people and you can't lose.
t.47 year old who just does some dumbbells a few times a week

>>76279199 (OP)
Define making it, but yes. You can be fitter and happier at any age.

Maybe I haven’t made it by Internet standards but I’m bigger than everyone I know IRL

>>76279489
I'm not quite as old as you but I somewhat agree. I got into lifting weights at 14 and I also became interested in healthy eating too (blame Baywatch lol). Now that I'm older and see
between myself and other people my own age it's vividly clear who took care of themselves and who ate junk food and sat on the couch until they didn't have their youth to cover the damage they were doing to themselves.

>>76279534
>dipshit

>>76281485
Doctors have caught up and recommend weight lifting even for geriatrics.

>>76279539
>>76279566
He’s right you know

I was obese in my early 40s. Cut hard and in one year lost 130 pounds or so. Spent the next several years lifting smart and eating well. Now I'm in my early 50s with capped delts and a bicep vein that I never had in my younger skinny fat years and even visible abs (if I flex in good light).

Unfortunately, because I fat fucked myself the skin around my lower abdomen is soft, not tight, so I do look a little melted with my shirt off. . Like Jason Blaha. Actually, my physique is more aesthetic than his (wider shoulders, narrower waist) and I am a fair bit leaner, but the ugliness of the skin and overall muscular size is about the same. I am over 6'5" so the whole thing looks different.

But yes, people sometimes call me " a bodybuilder" and most seem to assume assume I compete. At bars (I'm married so rarely go out) women approach me and touch my arms and chest. This NEVER happened in my younger years.

So yes - you can be an old fag in your 40s and still make it. Just eat like an adult (meat and vegetables) and train like a powerlifter (no meme exercises, just heavy on the basic barbell exercises)