Athletic performance in your 40s?

[Viva]

Took a look- MTI doesn't know shit about training for a 100 miler.

[zion zig zag]

Since there's been on a discussion on "standards" and when to be content with strength rather than push for more, MTI has standards posted. It uses pull ups, squat, deadlift and bench press as standards.

It doesn't adjust for age, but as I get back into shape from a broken arm, it's something I'll consider to set goals for myself.

Their numbers seem high to me, but a good goal nonetheless. I’ve fallen into at least one of their categories my entire adult life and there was probably less than a one year stretch where I could bench press 1.5x my body weight, and it wasn’t during a period where I felt most fit. YMMV.

[Foggy_Goggles]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sqP3nhXw24

Since we kinda do the Super Thread thing

I'm not the expert but this pod speaks to the importance of diet and health. And health is not fitness but its all related.

I live under a pretty big rock. How are Casey Means and Mark Hymen regarded? I try to be pretty aware of those drunk on click and becoming a cult of personality. Is they any info here that is controversial?

[californiagrown]

Their numbers seem high to me, but a good goal nonetheless. I’ve fallen into at least one of their categories my entire adult life and there was probably less than a one year stretch where I could bench press 1.5x my body weight, and it wasn’t during a period where I felt most fit. YMMV.

its a hard/fast go-by, but yeah, its gonna be much easier to hit those strength numbers with a shorter stocky build, than with a lanky build. If youre 5'10" 190lbs vs 6'4" 190lbs thats gonna be a big difference. I also find it odd that for tactical and mountain athletes (folks who are always weighted down with packs or plate carriers) they have a standard for unweighted pullups- it really should be weighted pullups with ~35lbs. IME there is a big difference in how people can perform weighted vs unweighted pullups.

[JimmyCarter]

Oh... and Wim... that nose looks like alcoholism.

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Apparently

https://archive.is/2024.09.28-040510...ence~v1176564/

For Caroline (65) and her children the news was bitter. For them the name Wim Hof is synonymous with years of aggression, physical violence, humiliation, manipulation and – in Caroline’s case – also sexual abuse. They know the Iceman, as Hof calls himself, as a mean drunk with an explosive character and delusions of grandeur. Someone of whom they had to be permanently wary.

[mcski]

Maybe we need a new updated thread called athletic performance in your 60s now?

Bunny is so much better than Scott:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DG3Pu...c4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

[Self Jupiter]

Thank you, someone needed to post that

[shroom]

so good

[ironhippy]

thats great. I have a mom who ran until she was 70 when she had to get her hip replaced, she still walks her dogs 2+ hours a day at 74.

[bodywhomper]

My mom’s 78. She taught me to ski and did the whole live out of the motorhome during almost all school breaks. She definitely wasn’t dropping cliffs in her early 60’s.

But, she takes daily long walks and does a bunch of daily PT for her feet, hips, shoulder, and neck. Has a new shoulder. She broke a hip in the early 80’s playing soccer with me, but never had a hip replacement. Knees have been good. She stopped skiing about 15 years ago when somebody took her out on a run at Mammoth - broke her helmet and gave a small concussion. She’s still working as a substitute teacher, partly to maintain social connections.

[mcski]

As I close in on that number myself, seeing Scott’s post of her on insta was jaw dropping. Serious shredding at any age. Super inspiring

[J. Barron DeJong]

Unbelievable skiing for a woman in her sixties.











Literally.