If you're in your 50's, 60's or older, do you FEEL like you're that old?

[FunkyMonkee]

Except for the edema and weight gain, I still feel like I'm in my 20's or 30's.

[Billlewis]

No, not st all. If it weren't for everyone reminding me every day, I'd never know;)

[exitseven]

I am still wailing away. I cannot run anymore because i have a fake hip but i can still do a lot of things that only young people can do.

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO😎

[Sparkie460]

I still try to do the things I did when I was in my 20's and 30's but my body tells me I'm nuts

[exitseven]

There is a reason you do not see any pro athletes in their 50s.

[Sparkie460]

Yes I know the reason

[FunkyMonkee]

@exitseven You've never heard of Jack LaLane (sp?)? He was a muscle head that was still doing feats of strengnth until shortly before he died in his 60's or 70's. I'm pretty sure there was another one in his 50's or older doing strong-man stuff but, I can't recall who he is/was.

[exitseven]

Jack LaLanne died at 93. He towed 60 rowboat across the Potomac River when he turned 60. he was a legend. Marathon runner Johnny Kelly was still running marathons well into his 70s. The thing is, these guys could not compete with their younger selves. Being a pro athlete means that you have to be the best of the best and age is not a consideration. Tom Brady knew when to finally give it up

[FunkyMonkee]

@exitseven I just know he was old when he died. I guess I was confusing him with Euell Gibbons or some other guy that was always professing eating the right stuff and doing workouts, etc., who died rather young and people made jokes about how the stuff he promoted didn't help him at all.
I knew Jack did some kind of strong man stunt in his old age, I just couldn't recall what it was.

[exitseven]

He did something else that was amazing when he turned 70 but I forget what it was. I remember the rowboats.

[FunkyMonkee]

@exitseven Same here. I remember he did a few stunts in his old age but can't recall what they were.

[exitseven]

I gotta look them up when I get home. He was really one of the first bodybuilders along with Charles Atlas and Steve Reeves. Back in the 60s only weirdos worked out with weights. Even athletes did not do much.

[FunkyMonkee]

@exitseven There was a lot of body-building going on on beaches in the `40's to early `60's.

[exitseven]

Yes but they were considered freaks and dimwits. It did not become acceptable until Arnold came to America in the late 60s.

[FunkyMonkee]

@exitseven From what I've seen in movies and such, girls ate that shit up! That's why guys would do that. One of those old surfer movies was called something like, "Muscle Beach Bimbo" or whatever. Maybe it was Bingo.

[exitseven]

Beach Blanket Bingo starred James Darren who would never be confused with a bodybuilder.
I was a fat kid and in 9th grade I joined a gym in the next town. I wanted to go someplace where nobody would see me. The gym was in a storefront in the same shopping center as a supermarket. After I worked out I went next door to the supermarket and got a can of soda. I ran into a girl who was shopping with her mother. I sort of liked her and when she saw my gym bad she asked me what was in it. I just told her that it was my old clothes. I did not want her to know i was working out with weights. She would have thought I was weird.

[FunkyMonkee]

www.youtube.com/watch

[Sparkie460]

Hey, you two are blowing up my comment. I'm coming for both of you and I'm going to kick your asses and break your fingers.

Hahaha. Just kidding

[FunkyMonkee]

You beat him up, Exit and I'll run for... ummm... HELP! Yeah, that's it, help!!

[docster]

At 57, I think of myself as being around 27 to 37.

[riverrat3]

Brain no, body yes