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As someone that has been in the gym consistently for almost twenty years now, I would wager that less than 20% of any age group could accomplish that. 15% might be a better guess.

General population - 5% of that age. Most people over 50 aren’t in the gym.
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33 minutes ago, Goofyboy said:


General population - 5% of that age. Most people over 50 aren’t in the gym.

You haven’t been in my gym at 9am on a weekday. It’s about 60/40 people over 50. 

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You haven’t been in my gym at 9am on a weekday. It’s about 60/40 people over 50. 




In my gym right now there are 11 people. 6 of which are definitely over 50, one more maybe. Myself and one other guy in our late 30’s, and two females probably in their mid to late 20’s. In another hour there will be another 10-12 people show up and they are all at least late 40’s. The over 45 crowd outnumbers the under 40 crowd 3 to 1, and I don’t train at a mainstream chain gym or “health club”.
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General population - 5% of that age. Most people over 50 aren’t in the gym.

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Looks like it. It’s on the internet so it has to be true.
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On 6/5/2025 at 7:33 PM, txduck87 said:


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Looks like it. It’s on the internet so it has to be true.

I hit the pull up bar occasionally, but this is all me... I am at the desk for 10 hours a day, trying to fund college and retirement... Then I eat some shit (usually cooked at home, so healthy ish) drink a bourbon and lay my old fat ass down... And proceed to sleep like shit.

I woke up this morning with a sore scapula and I have no idea why. 

I was kicking ass before covid, then I just melted into the couch and whisky when people started dying. 

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On 6/4/2025 at 3:05 PM, Helobious said:

Balancing on one leg for 30 seconds is probably a more useful health goal at that age than all of those things. I’m not even kidding.

Over 50 balance exercises, functional movement, flexibility/stretching, cardio endurance and muscle retention/tone should be the focus. Men and women we are now focusing both on the quality of our physical lives now and the quality of our physical and cognitive lives later while working to mitigate the accident risks that occur over 70.

reality is, with people living into their 80s with decent mobility the next phase is cognitive health and the good news is if you’re weight training you’re doing about a third of what matters anyway, even better if your weight training includes tempo to get the heart pumping (more blood to your brain).

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On 6/4/2025 at 9:53 PM, Js1 said:

You haven’t been in my gym at 9am on a weekday. It’s about 60/40 people over 50. 

Our gym is a country club is crawling with olds. 

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I hit the pull up bar occasionally, but this is all me... I am at the desk for 10 hours a day, trying to fund college and retirement... Then I eat some shit (usually cooked at home, so healthy ish) drink a bourbon and lay my old fat ass down... And proceed to sleep like shit.
I woke up this morning with a sore scapula and I have no idea why. 
I was kicking ass before covid, then I just melted into the couch and whisky when people started dying. 

Wanna know the good news? Everything you just posted is fixable. It’s not an easy fix by any means; it’s gonna take effort, but it is absolutely within your power to get it done. Can I ask now that you’ve identified the problem(s) that need fixing, what is the biggest hurdle stopping you from doing so?
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11 hours ago, Slacks said:

I hit the pull up bar occasionally, but this is all me... I am at the desk for 10 hours a day, trying to fund college and retirement... Then I eat some shit (usually cooked at home, so healthy ish) drink a bourbon and lay my old fat ass down... And proceed to sleep like shit.

I woke up this morning with a sore scapula and I have no idea why. 

I was kicking ass before covid, then I just melted into the couch and whisky when people started dying. 

I spent the last 3-4 years with multiple injuries to my shoulder/scapula area just from sleeping “wrong.” Like can’t lift my arm above my shoulder without pain. 
 

Mixed lifting (light shit) back into my regimen after being mostly cardio since covid, and the pain and aches have disappeared. It’s all about blood flow. 
 

also, stop being fat. 

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33 minutes ago, Js1 said:

You also became a pirate?

Once a pirate always a pirate… savvy? #parrothead #pirateover40

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59 minutes ago, Herbie Hancock said:


Wanna know the good news? Everything you just posted is fixable. It’s not an easy fix by any means; it’s gonna take effort, but it is absolutely within your power to get it done. Can I ask now that you’ve identified the problem(s) that need fixing, what is the biggest hurdle stopping you from doing so?

Biggest hurdles are  stress / sleep and time management and alcohol. 

Stress (work and life) and alcohol make sleeping shit, so a 6am workout seems impossible... And at 6p I'm often still working. 

I know exactly what to do, how to do it, and how long it will take. 

I'm going to give it a reboot again this week. 

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4 minutes ago, Slacks said:

Biggest hurdles are  stress / sleep and time management and alcohol. 

Stress (work and life) and alcohol make sleeping shit, so a 6am workout seems impossible... And at 6p I'm often still working. 

I know exactly what to do, how to do it, and how long it will take. 

I'm going to give it a reboot again this week. 

I wake up at 415 to work out. Get it you pussy. 

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6 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

I wake up at 415 to work out. Get it you pussy. 

Ice T No GIF by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
 

I work from home so I get out and go work out early evening as my transition from work to home. When I get back unless I’ve got a deal that’s just kicking our ass I don’t spend one more second in my office. 

helps my kids are late high school teens and if we choose to have a family dinner it’s like 8pm (bad but good for the family schedule).

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Btw my appetite has calmed down. I think my target weight has shifted up 6-7 lbs which is fine but I’m holding steady again (still need to drop 5 lbs of fat to be in that “damn you looking goood” zone but not in the “she’s gotta be psychotic” fit look). But I’m not eating like a ravenous hyena anymore. So it’s good. Alcohol down to 5 or less a week 2-3 nights max.

so I’m through the lethargy, intense soreness, fatigue, appetite issues and now it seems just routine. Late Feb to June to transition back to it.

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1 hour ago, troph said:

Ice T No GIF by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
 

I work from home so I get out and go work out early evening as my transition from work to home. When I get back unless I’ve got a deal that’s just kicking our ass I don’t spend one more second in my office. 

helps my kids are late high school teens and if we choose to have a family dinner it’s like 8pm (bad but good for the family schedule).

It helps im a morning person. But I’ve also noticed that my workouts in the evening are substantially weaker than in the morning. 

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I’m the opposite of troph. I also work from home but I work out first in the morning before starting work. 

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I'm down a couple more pounds in the last 10 days.  I'm down 18 for the year.  I haven't done much.  Kids are out of school and we've got a new pup. 

I haven't swung my kettlebells or gone for a run. I've just been sticking to 500 cal/meal and the weight is still slowly peeling off. 

 

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23 minutes ago, Js1 said:

I’m the opposite of troph. I also work from home but I work out first in the morning before starting work. 

If I work out in the morning especially if it’s tennis then I want to go for a swim and then relax and live a life of leisure. It’s a bad bad idea for me to work out in the morning.

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On 6/8/2025 at 9:48 AM, SydneyCarton said:

I wake up at 415 to work out. Get it you pussy. 

Same.  I'm 45 minutes from Austin, so I leave for the gym at 4 to avoid traffic both ways as much as possible.  Perimenopause helps.  I ain't sleeping anyway.

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On 6/8/2025 at 11:33 AM, SydneyCarton said:

It helps im a morning person. But I’ve also noticed that my workouts in the evening are substantially weaker than in the morning. 

I'd say "same" on that, though I also know that my caffeine intake before an AM workout compared to before a PM workout (I typically don't drink caffeine after 3PM) also has a pretty big impact on that, so my HR doesn't get near as high even if I'm actually working in the same weight and rep range so I don't feel like I've pushed as hard and/or I get tired out quicker as a result.

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On 6/8/2025 at 9:48 AM, SydneyCarton said:

I wake up at 415 to work out. Get it you pussy. 

I wake up at 4:08 a.m. Mostly out of necessity, because I often have morning kid duty that requires getting my son to school by 6:50 for band rehearsal. 

And even before I had to get up quite that early, I’ve always taken the laboring oar with morning school transport, and I’ve always psychologically preferred a pre-dawn workout when the gym is quiet and I don’t have to worry about an unexpected work or other matter getting in the way of a later-scheduled workout.

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3 minutes ago, South Austin said:

I wake up at 4:08 a.m. Mostly out of necessity, because I often have morning kid duty that requires getting my son to school by 6:50 for band rehearsal. 

And even before I had to get up quite that early, I’ve always taken the laboring oar with morning school transport, and I’ve always psychologically preferred a pre-dawn workout when the gym is quiet and I don’t have to worry about an unexpected work or other matter getting in the way of a later-scheduled workout.

Yeah. I've been alright getting up early since a job at a golf course by 6 am on weekends. The rest of my life has just been mission creep for earlier times. In my 20's it was waking up at 530 to go on runs. Then when I did crossfit, the early class was at 5:30, so that means getting up at like 5:15. Then with the kiddo coming around (I'm also morning duty), it was 4:45. Then it was this fucking dog who wakes me up multiple times a night because it's like "Breakfast yet?!?!" 

By the time I'm retired I'll be bewildered by all the old people who wait until the dead of night at 5:30 pm to go to Luby's. 

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5 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

By the time I'm retired I'll be bewildered by all the old people who wait until the dead of night at 5:30 pm to go to Luby's. 

My wife already makes fun of how I have the sleeping habits of an octogenarian.

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1 minute ago, South Austin said:

Why wife already makes fun of how I have the sleeping habits of an octogenarian.

It's pure jealousy. My wife has insomnia and trouble falling asleep, I'm asleep within 15 minutes of my head hitting the pillow. I can also take afternoon naps and she can't. "I think you take too much melatonin before bedtime, that can't be good for you." Oh yeah, which one of the two us has healthy sleep patterns, lady?

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4 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

It's pure jealousy. My wife has insomnia and trouble falling asleep, I'm asleep within 15 minutes of my head hitting the pillow. I can also take afternoon naps and she can't. "I think you take too much melatonin before bedtime, that can't be good for you." Oh yeah, which one of the two us has healthy sleep patterns, lady?

Similar situation. My wife’s primary symptom of perimenopause is horrible sleeping patterns. Supplements, exercise, and a healthy diet are helping very little. I feel bad for her, until I’m sound asleep before 9pm.

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On the topic of morning vs. evening workouts, I'm probably a bit weird in that I do both during an average week. 

MON-TUE: cardio and lifting at office gym in the evening.

WED: cardio and lifting at neighborhood YMCA in the morning. Usually hardest work out of the week.

THU: rest day from lifting but evening cardio session at office

FRI-SAT: morning cardio and lifting at YMCA

SUN: Nothing.

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I’ve been suffering some hip pain for a while now, assumed it was strength and/or flexibility and frankly it probably is but damn it hurt so bad last night I had to drop out of a tennis clinic and I HATE dropping out. Anyway, so demoralizing and I started thinking shots and my tennis “career” is over - and keep in mind it’s the foundation of how I and why I work out at all - worrying about hip replacement and all the things. Did some things last night for the pain, researched some supps but in the end I broke out the foam roller and damn I saw fucking stars working out the tension in my outer hip and butt, and it was instant relief. I’ve done it 5 more times in the last 24 hours. I’ve been suffering for months I think I found a possible solution! I’m so excited. Less than 24 hours after I stepped off the court I was fully engaged in a HIIT workout and going all out including some work that def got to my hips. 98% fine. So awesome. Foam rollers. Believe. 

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Foam roller is great but it is a temporary fix. I cannot recommend enough finding Vernon Griffith and Dr Andre Ospina on IG or YouTube and combing through their work on mobility and injury prevention/recovery. Both spend a lot of time covering the hips so there is a lot of content to go over.


Vernon


https://www.instagram.com/vernongriffith4?igsh=Zjc1Y2VhZDUycXBt



Dr. Ospina

https://www.instagram.com/drandreospina?igsh=Yzd2djZ0YjdlMWt2

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12 hours ago, troph said:

I’ve been suffering some hip pain for a while now, assumed it was strength and/or flexibility and frankly it probably is but damn it hurt so bad last night I had to drop out of a tennis clinic and I HATE dropping out. Anyway, so demoralizing and I started thinking shots and my tennis “career” is over - and keep in mind it’s the foundation of how I and why I work out at all - worrying about hip replacement and all the things. Did some things last night for the pain, researched some supps but in the end I broke out the foam roller and damn I saw fucking stars working out the tension in my outer hip and butt, and it was instant relief. I’ve done it 5 more times in the last 24 hours. I’ve been suffering for months I think I found a possible solution! I’m so excited. Less than 24 hours after I stepped off the court I was fully engaged in a HIIT workout and going all out including some work that def got to my hips. 98% fine. So awesome. Foam rollers. Believe. 

Love foam rollers. Live and die by my dude at Stretch Lab who works my hips once a week (phrasing). That place has increased my flexibility and mobility tenfold 

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41 minutes ago, Herbie Hancock said:

Foam roller is great but it is a temporary fix. I cannot recommend enough finding Vernon Griffith and Dr Andre Ospina on IG or YouTube and combing through their work on mobility and injury prevention/recovery. Both spend a lot of time covering the hips so there is a lot of content to go over.


Vernon


https://www.instagram.com/vernongriffith4?igsh=Zjc1Y2VhZDUycXBt



Dr. Ospina

https://www.instagram.com/drandreospina?igsh=Yzd2djZ0YjdlMWt2

I will check them out.

14 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Love foam rollers. Live and die by my dude at Stretch Lab who works my hips once a week (phrasing). That place has increased my flexibility and mobility tenfold 

I get a sports/deep tissue massage twice a month and about 1/4 of the massage is hip stretching, but I probably need to add stretching as a standalone. I stretch on my own about 8-10 times a week, but some days none, others 3-4 times.  I'm starting to get ahead of it but it's slow going.  Ground zero for me is hamstrings, glutes, hips, groin, lower back, all tied together tight tight tight. 

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13 hours ago, troph said:

I’ve been suffering some hip pain for a while now, assumed it was strength and/or flexibility and frankly it probably is but damn it hurt so bad last night I had to drop out of a tennis clinic and I HATE dropping out. Anyway, so demoralizing and I started thinking shots and my tennis “career” is over - and keep in mind it’s the foundation of how I and why I work out at all - worrying about hip replacement and all the things. Did some things last night for the pain, researched some supps but in the end I broke out the foam roller and damn I saw fucking stars working out the tension in my outer hip and butt, and it was instant relief. I’ve done it 5 more times in the last 24 hours. I’ve been suffering for months I think I found a possible solution! I’m so excited. Less than 24 hours after I stepped off the court I was fully engaged in a HIIT workout and going all out including some work that def got to my hips. 98% fine. So awesome. Foam rollers. Believe. 

Foam Rollers are great, but you should consider adding in some lacrosse ball work as well. It's much more pinpoint, but the fact it's such harder than a foam roller it really breaks shit down. 

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10 minutes ago, troph said:

Ground zero for me is hamstrings, glutes, hips, groin, lower back, all tied together tight tight tight. 

We do a lot of that in my sessions except groin.  Lot of hamstrings, lower back, hip flexors, adductors/abductors, piraformis 

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14 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

Foam Rollers are great, but you should consider adding in some lacrosse ball work as well. It's much more pinpoint, but the fact it's such harder than a foam roller it really breaks shit down. 

easy there cowboy. that sounds like absolute pain.

 

7 minutes ago, Js1 said:

We do a lot of that in my sessions except groin.  Lot of hamstrings, lower back, hip flexors, adductors/abductors, piraformis 

don't lie, it doesn't suit you.

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my personal trainer thinks part of it is mismatched strength - weak core, strong quads, and weak hamstrings and glutes and over use of my lower back to compensate for the weak parts. so working at bringing up the glutes and hamstrings up to par.

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1 hour ago, troph said:

my personal trainer thinks part of it is mismatched strength - weak core, strong quads, and weak hamstrings and glutes and over use of my lower back to compensate for the weak parts. so working at bringing up the glutes and hamstrings up to par.

I've preached this before, but everything I read about the importance of weight training as you get older emphasizes glutes.  It's one of the largest muscle groups in your body, and their often neglected or underutilized because (a) people tend to focus on quads and hamstrings, and/or (b) people have sedentary jobs where they do a lot of sitting. Strong glutes help with mobility and balance, and better alignment and stabilization of hips and knees.  

I had always included the dreaded leg day into my weight cycle, but since reading more about the importance of glutes for longevity, I've incorporated stuff like lunges, split squats, and glute bridges to better focus on glutes.

tl;dr version: Work dat ass.

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2 hours ago, Js1 said:

Love foam rollers. Live and die by my dude at Stretch Lab who works my hips once a week (phrasing). That place has increased my flexibility and mobility tenfold 

How do you like Stretch Lab.  They had one recently open in Waco and I was interested in trying it but I'm not sure how much benefit I would get.  Do you have a membership?

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1 minute ago, Post Oak said:

How do you like Stretch Lab.  They had one recently open in Waco and I was interested in trying it but I'm not sure how much benefit I would get.  Do you have a membership?

I've been using it consistently for 2.5 years now and I love it.  I have a good routine of leg day -> stretch session, so I have like zero soreness the next day or two.  Especially if you get or find a flexologist who you vibe with and see consistently.   They all seem to be former personal trainers or physical therapists. 

It's like $189 (in Denver) for four 25-min stretches, but you can do them as two 50-min stretches or roll them over.  I think it was $149 or $159 when I was in Houston.  I had to cancel my membership and then start it over here. 

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