stormcab
Sith Lord
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Age is starting to catch up with us all.
I'm 38 and have been a gym rat for the last 5 years. I caught myself at some bad angles on holiday around 32 and knew it was time to do something. I was going to start a thread offering advice to anyone that wants it. I would like to be a PT at some point in the future, and know most of the best and most trusted do a ton of stuff for free in the beginning to get some momentum.
I had a metal bar go an inch or so into my left knee-cap in my teens, and although it healed pretty well, it occasionally gave me a bit of grief, but now by training my legs with heavy squats and deadlifts, I have built up a lot of supporting muscle. In the pics I'm deadlifting 260kg (yesterday) and squatting 202.5kg (couple of weeks ago). The before and after is at the start, then 2 years later when I went on a mad low calorie period to get as lean as possible. I have put on about a stone and a half since then, but it's mostly lean muscle.
While you recover, exercise is not only going to be extremely difficult, but you'll be really down and in no mood to eat healthily. What's going to be important is for you to increase your protein intake - A LOT! Get lots of (lean) meat in you (oi oi). You'll need it to prevent muscle waste, but the protein will be essential to fuel the repair of your body. You will need to do some form of exercise, and if you want tips on this based on how much you can actually physically move, then drop me a PM. I will start a thread in off-topic offering free advice and tips soon as well.
Oh, and if people are thinking "steroids", I'm 100% natural. No steroids, testosterone, growth hormone.
I'm 38 and have been a gym rat for the last 5 years. I caught myself at some bad angles on holiday around 32 and knew it was time to do something. I was going to start a thread offering advice to anyone that wants it. I would like to be a PT at some point in the future, and know most of the best and most trusted do a ton of stuff for free in the beginning to get some momentum.
I had a metal bar go an inch or so into my left knee-cap in my teens, and although it healed pretty well, it occasionally gave me a bit of grief, but now by training my legs with heavy squats and deadlifts, I have built up a lot of supporting muscle. In the pics I'm deadlifting 260kg (yesterday) and squatting 202.5kg (couple of weeks ago). The before and after is at the start, then 2 years later when I went on a mad low calorie period to get as lean as possible. I have put on about a stone and a half since then, but it's mostly lean muscle.
While you recover, exercise is not only going to be extremely difficult, but you'll be really down and in no mood to eat healthily. What's going to be important is for you to increase your protein intake - A LOT! Get lots of (lean) meat in you (oi oi). You'll need it to prevent muscle waste, but the protein will be essential to fuel the repair of your body. You will need to do some form of exercise, and if you want tips on this based on how much you can actually physically move, then drop me a PM. I will start a thread in off-topic offering free advice and tips soon as well.
Oh, and if people are thinking "steroids", I'm 100% natural. No steroids, testosterone, growth hormone.