How much lean muscle have you since put on? You read about 18y.o lads who slam on 25Ibs of muscle in a summer without thinking, but what about those of us who started after 40?
Anyone here added 30, 40 or more?
How much lean muscle have you since put on? You read about 18y.o lads who slam on 25Ibs of muscle in a summer without thinking, but what about those of us who started after 40?
Anyone here added 30, 40 or more?
Good question. I’ve lifted since I was 18, but didn’t know much back then - ate terrible, bad form, stress, etc. As the years went by, kept learning a bit at a time. By the time I turned 50, was finally putting it all together. In the past year, I put on between 25 and 30 lbs of bodyweight, mostly muscle. About 5 or 10 lbs I had had before, but the rest was new. Now at 212 lbs, the heaviest I’ve ever been. Don’t know if this helps.
[quote]cavalier wrote:
Good question. I’ve lifted since I was 18, but didn’t know much back then - ate terrible, bad form, stress, etc. As the years went by, kept learning a bit at a time. By the time I turned 50, was finally putting it all together. In the past year, I put on between 25 and 30 lbs of bodyweight, mostly muscle. About 5 or 10 lbs I had had before, but the rest was new. Now at 212 lbs, the heaviest I’ve ever been. Don’t know if this helps.[/quote]
Your case reminds me of a theory I have, that training is partially cumulative in benefit, ie if you don’t supplement it with good rest/diet over the years, you make very slow gains but after that, if you introduce good food/rest even at our late stage, you will see a spectacular leap in lean muscle from all the work you put in during those earlier years.
Not as effective as training simultaneous to solid diet/rest, but I don’t think the work is wasted. I’m sure there’s a biological term for that cellular change that can wait dormantly for years for protein/diet, and suddenly take hypertrophic effect when they are supplied.
Bump
Last year,
Squats and Milk program
from 234 @ 20% to 275 @ 30%, so for 41 lbs, 15 muscle.
Trying to cut down to 250.