Comments on: When Do You Stop Working Out?

By: biggahboy

biggahboy — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:23:03 +0000

The only way ill stop training is if, God forbid, I die. Ill keep going Jack Lalanne style. There are too many health & lifestyle benefits that you cannot afford to not workout.

By: Chad

Chad — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:01:33 +0000

I figure I’ll keep lifting until chicks dig out of shape fat guys….or when I retire in an exotic locale and don’t give a fuc$ anymore cause I’m livin la vida loca…

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:06:09 +0000

My Dad was in the special forces for years, and after he left still continued to train hard, I would describe his training as what we would call metabolic/crossfit style. He hit about 45 and took a non physical job and quit training altogether, over the next five years he got seriously f’ed up, weight gain preceeded knee problems, back problems, insulin resistance (followed by type 2 diabetes.) Obviously a lot of this was to do with eating a real shitty diet, but not training changed his lifestyle to a point where eating crap was the norm. I hate when I hear people my age (early 20′s) saying “I’m gonna train for life!” Because you just don’t know, but I am shit scared of any of the above happening to me! When I look at people destroying their body like than, I realise that it really is akin to alcohol abuse or drug abuse, but people just let it slide, time for an intervention Dad!

By: johnbarban

johnbarban — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:04:15 +0000

ERV,

I’m with you on this one for sure.

My grandmother fell and broker her shoulder and 6 weeks later she was gone. I am amazed that more people aren’t on the band wagon for weight training after seeing people fall, break a bone and die. There is more than enough scientific evidence to support weight training as a preventative (or at least reduce the risk) of these types of falls and breaks.

By: ERV

ERV — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:49:08 +0000

Nope.

Both of my grandmothers had severe osteoporosis (one was basically buckled over from the curvature of her spine). Both broke their hips and never checked out of the hospital.

Mom, on the other hand, took up weight training when I was little, and is still kicking butt, and still has great bone-density scores (everyone else her age is on osteo-meds).

So, Im doing this forever for my health.