MediumRare
Sparrow
I think a mans decline is individualised based on his training routine and genetic predisposition but also a massive, massive part of it is your mindset.
Since divorcing a year ago and sleeping with a lot of women iv realised that chronological age is almost irrelevant compared to a woman's biological age.
Iv seen haggard looking 27 year olds and been amazed at the youthfulness of a 41 year old, I'm talking thick glossy hair, soft skin, no wrinkes, firm flesh, the works.
Lifestyle obvs plays a part but much of it is just the genetic lottery on how quickly you age and decline.
The decline of a mans athletic abilities will Likely be the same, individualised dependant on his genetically/lifestyle determined biological age rather than his chronological age.
I competed in kickboxing and muaythai at 72kg from age 18-23 and wasn't anything special, record of 5-4-0.
Got a girlfriend, stopped training, got married, kids, a business and turned 30 at 92kg of mostly fat.
Started triathlons and endurance cycling from age 31 and over 3 years dropped back to 76 kg.
I looked horribly thin in hindsight.
At 35 I started I split from my wife and started training mma and boxing.
The first year I got a few injuries, mainly sternum and cracked ribs from being taken down hard.
I started to think I was too old for it, that at 36 my bones were too brittle and inflexible for the impacts.
But then I realised I was just telling myself a pieced together story as an excuse to quit.
that young guys get injured too. It's just part of the game.
So I continued and last week I turned 37 and I can tell you at 82kg I am the strongest, fittest and best looking I've ever been.
In the last year iv got a record of 3-0-0 mma and 3-0-0 white collar boxing all against guys in their 20's.
Iv regained the cardio I built (or uncovered) doing the long distance cycle races and now fight with an intensity and aggression and what my team mates call 'man strength' I just never had in my 20's.
I know the party won't last forever, and that despite being better than many fighters in their 20's my personal potential in my mid-late 20s will always have been greater than what it could be at 37 but putting the past aside, in the here and now so so much of it really comes down to mindset.
If you believe youre getting old, you'll feel old and won't try hard enough but if you suspend those beliefs about age and just train with younger guys, as hard and smart as you can, you'll realise how much more your body and mind are still capable of achieving.
Since divorcing a year ago and sleeping with a lot of women iv realised that chronological age is almost irrelevant compared to a woman's biological age.
Iv seen haggard looking 27 year olds and been amazed at the youthfulness of a 41 year old, I'm talking thick glossy hair, soft skin, no wrinkes, firm flesh, the works.
Lifestyle obvs plays a part but much of it is just the genetic lottery on how quickly you age and decline.
The decline of a mans athletic abilities will Likely be the same, individualised dependant on his genetically/lifestyle determined biological age rather than his chronological age.
I competed in kickboxing and muaythai at 72kg from age 18-23 and wasn't anything special, record of 5-4-0.
Got a girlfriend, stopped training, got married, kids, a business and turned 30 at 92kg of mostly fat.
Started triathlons and endurance cycling from age 31 and over 3 years dropped back to 76 kg.
I looked horribly thin in hindsight.
At 35 I started I split from my wife and started training mma and boxing.
The first year I got a few injuries, mainly sternum and cracked ribs from being taken down hard.
I started to think I was too old for it, that at 36 my bones were too brittle and inflexible for the impacts.
But then I realised I was just telling myself a pieced together story as an excuse to quit.
that young guys get injured too. It's just part of the game.
So I continued and last week I turned 37 and I can tell you at 82kg I am the strongest, fittest and best looking I've ever been.
In the last year iv got a record of 3-0-0 mma and 3-0-0 white collar boxing all against guys in their 20's.
Iv regained the cardio I built (or uncovered) doing the long distance cycle races and now fight with an intensity and aggression and what my team mates call 'man strength' I just never had in my 20's.
I know the party won't last forever, and that despite being better than many fighters in their 20's my personal potential in my mid-late 20s will always have been greater than what it could be at 37 but putting the past aside, in the here and now so so much of it really comes down to mindset.
If you believe youre getting old, you'll feel old and won't try hard enough but if you suspend those beliefs about age and just train with younger guys, as hard and smart as you can, you'll realise how much more your body and mind are still capable of achieving.