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Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Getting Old

My usual routine of building up muscle and training it down is coming to an end.
I've reached an age where I've realised the image of an oversize, lump of muscle is neither positive or of benefit to me. I am after a visit to the doctor judged by the blind scale of BMI to be clinically obese. I've always been active, I'm on my feet and walking, running upstairs, wrestling people all of the time I'm at work. I trainn hard cardio and high rep weights and have a muscular physique. The dumb assessment that my mass exceeds a safe limit for my height is not something I take too seriously.
It does flag up that I'm an outlier. That what I've been doing over the years with my build has placed me in the extreme of the distribution and as I get older this will only be getting more apparent. It's time to slim down, up the fitness and do with technique what I've been doing with body weight. I'm not going to be disappearing anytime soon, hiding behind lampposts or being confused for a marathon runner will not be me. I think I'm just aiming to turn some of the overdeveloped musculature into a more conventional broad shouldered sporty build.
We'll see how this goes down at work. I'll still have a face like a bag of spanners and all the lessons I've learned so far but being smaller will reduce my physical presence. Will this lead to more grief or less grief?

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Shouldn't you do independant measurements - say fat fold evaluation at the very least.
The BMI is rather tired and passe.

You really want to hang onto muscles they are not easy to recreate especially when you are realy old i.e. 65 + or more.

Adoor Man said...

I'm not a fan of BMI, and not just as I'm judged badly by it. It is however the first and most convenient tool available to a doctor.
I know my muscle loss will be permanent, I don't think being big and old is a good look, definately not for me.

Anonymous said...

When you are 70+ you will find that being bigish and ugly is very handy.
It gets you the respect and attention that being scrawny and old does not.
Or so I have found in hospitals and government departments.
Being 75 years old as I am would get you ignored otherwise.
Stick with the weights!

Anonymous said...

well well well... fuck you and your steroids ,fucking cock sucking nancy boy. Why dont ya try tackling some one sober and by yourself ya fucking shit stabbing cunt ?
See ya soon dickhead.

Adoor Man said...

Well anonymous, (3rd commenter), slight anger issues, maybe some repression. Enough said, enjoy your life.

Anonymous said...

Good post, adding it to my blog now, thanks. :)

Anonymous said...

Hi there

Can I link to this post please?