el gato wrote:
Question for the older athletes out there. Is it possible to have the kind of muscle mass in the "70 year old triathlete" MRI just from SBR, or does that invariably involve lifting weights to preserve muscle mass like that?
good genetics is what you need..
that picture is nonsense. Does the triathlete have great muscle mass because of tri, or is he a triathlete because he still has great muscle mass ?
From my experience of aging, it's the second..
I'm working out more than I did in my 40s, weights year-round now instead of just in the winter, and losing strength steadily..
"It is a good feeling for old men who have begun to fear failure, any sort of failure, to set a schedule for exercise and stick to it. If an aging man can run a distance of three miles, for instance, he knows that whatever his other failures may be, he is not completely wasted away." Romain Gary, SI interview