I won’t. It’s my autistic special interest. Been doing it since 2003 (yes 2 - 0 - 0 - 3)
In my late 30s now. Even just today I had one of my top 10 best lifting sessions of my lifetime. Shit just keeps getting better.
I laugh when people ask me “who am I trying to impress” - myself of course haha
All the roiders at my gym have quit lifting or have been forced off gear due to age and lost all their gains and have never been able to make any natural gains because they relied on steroids so heavily and never learned how to train. I’m still going.
There’s 1 other natural at my gym who’s been lifting at the same gym for 50+ years (he’s in his 70s) and he’s still his gains, he still cuts, he still lifts harder than 99% of guys in the gym. He is natty because he is only 145lb shredded (manlet) but every pound on his frame when shredded is pure muscle, you would call him a fake natty if you saw him.
I know he’s natural because I’ve seen him in the gym for the last 20 years I’ve been lifting and have been there for many of his bulks and shredding season.
The whole thing of you needing TRT to keep lifting and have muscle is bullshit.
He is like 5’4 and 145lb shredded in his 70s, but he was also 5’4 and 145lb shredded at age 30-40-50-60 and now in his 70s
You dumb homosexuals are clueless about basically everything when it comes to lifting
1. >you’re clueless about how much a natty weighs when truely legitimately shredded at single digit bodyfat (it’s way lower than you think) you’ve likely never seen what being shredded actually is in real life
2. >you’re clueless about muscle and strength as a natural and how you will maintain you gains into old age so long as you keep lifting and dieting the same way you did in you 20s, 30s, 40s
3. >also wrong about the requirement or TRT, by simply remaining active and lifting weights and eating properly you will maintain good testosterone levels well into old age
You’re essentially all fricking idiots who’ve spent too much time listening to steroid salesman selling you bullshit lies to make you believe you need their products in order to get anywhere, you’ve basically been brainwashed by drug dealers like a fricking gullible moron
I'm 40 and don't see myself ever stopping, although I don't really care to get bigger than I am now and just want to stay fit and athletic. My dad is in his 70s and still trains religiously, when I grow up I want to be like him.
I don’t. I’m [...]
All the roiders at my gym have quit lifting or have been forced off gear due to age and lost all their gains and have never been able to make any natural gains because they relied on steroids so heavily and never learned how to train. I’m still going.
There’s 1 other natural at my gym who’s been lifting at the same gym for 50+ years (he’s in his 70s) and he’s still his gains, he still cuts, he still lifts harder than 99% of guys in the gym. He is natty because he is only 145lb shredded (manlet) but every pound on his frame when shredded is pure muscle, you would call him a fake natty if you saw him.
I know he’s natural because I’ve seen him in the gym for the last 20 years I’ve been lifting and have been there for many of his bulks and shredding season.
The whole thing of you needing TRT to keep lifting and have muscle is bullshit.
He is like 5’4 and 145lb shredded in his 70s, but he was also 5’4 and 145lb shredded at age 30-40-50-60 and now in his 70s
You dumb homosexuals are clueless about basically everything when it comes to lifting
1. >you’re clueless about how much a natty weighs when truely legitimately shredded at single digit bodyfat (it’s way lower than you think) you’ve likely never seen what being shredded actually is in real life
2. >you’re clueless about muscle and strength as a natural and how you will maintain you gains into old age so long as you keep lifting and dieting the same way you did in you 20s, 30s, 40s
3. >also wrong about the requirement or TRT, by simply remaining active and lifting weights and eating properly you will maintain good testosterone levels well into old age
You’re essentially all fricking idiots who’ve spent too much time listening to steroid salesman selling you bullshit lies to make you believe you need their products in order to get anywhere, you’ve basically been brainwashed by drug dealers like a fricking gullible moron
Thanks. I guess everyone has their reasons for stopping- injuries, job stress, family responsibilities, even simply losing interest. I am having too much fun to ever quit, it's integrated into my psyche at this point. Also I generally stick with lighter weights and safer movements for the long term to avoid injuries.
https://i.imgur.com/cXwmLNZ.jpg
Just turned 57 and still tryin', but I expect arthritis will get me eventually (hopefully not for a good long while yet tho').
>I am having too much fun to ever quit, it's integrated into my psyche at this point. Also I generally stick with lighter weights and safer movements for the long term to avoid injuries.
Only just got into lifting. I look bad. If I stop lifting my body will look worse. I cannot return to a point worse than this.
Hopefully I will be eaten by a wild animal before I have to stop lifting.
I started lifting when I was 16, and I'm almost 37 now. I don't lift seriously anymore, and I've taken some breaks or lost motivation for some time, but I always come back to it and I always maintain a physique that's better than most my age. I don't think I will grow out of it, simply because maintenance is so easy and whenever I do find the motivation "peak" my physique again I can just go a little harder for a few months and see where it gets me.
I also find it hilarious you guys think older lifters = steroids
There is no fricking old lifters on steroids you young dumb stupid fricks, most guys who roid start in their late teens or early 20s and by their early 30s suffer health complications and are forced off the drugs
And what then? Most of them fall off the face of the planet and you NEVER see them again
99% of these guys can’t handle lifting naturally once they’re force off the drugs, so they just quit
You c**ts are so fricking inexperienced and delusional and have no clue about what you’re talking about
99% of roiders are 16-28 years old, maybe 1% or them will continue roiding after that and not be forced off due to a health scare, but most will have a health scare after roiding from 16-28 range and then say frick it and quit
I know this because I’ve been in the gym for the last 21 years and I’ve seen it all
Until you have health complications and end up bankrupt after a visit to the hospital lmao. Richer bigger stronger men than you have suffered that fate, you're not special. In my country healthcare is free tho.
This guy will get 1 single health scare and immediately quit like 99% of other roiders
He just doesn’t believe me because he’s on that fake confidence and delusion that the steroids give you
All it takes is some chest pains and a visit to the ER where he’ll get his heart scanned and they’ll tell him it’s like 20% enlarged and that he needs to stop whatever drugs he’s taking and he will likely snap out of the roid-brain, that’s how most of them end up going off the gear
FYI the oldest roider at my gym was forced to quit the steroids completely at 45, he’s the longest lasting roider at my gym, he’s been on steroids since his 20s. There have been many countless other roiders at my gym who were forced off steroids due to a health scare and most of the time it had occurred when they’re about 30 years old give it take a few year, and that is guys who had been roiding from 16-24 till 28-32
The guy who was able to roid for 20 years I spoke about first is literally the exception to the rule, all the other roiders had to quit after 4-8 years of roiding at most.
I goto a gym where roids are openly spoken about and used and it’s NOT the older guys doing it, it’s 99% guys in their 20s
I think I'll always lift to some degree, but the intensity and frequency will definitely take a sharp decline at some point. Probably around my late 40's/early 50's I'll start moving away from lifting really heavy shit to more body weight, flexibility, mobility focused stuff. Lower weights, higher volume, more cardio, maybe get into some yoga or pilattes type shit
I get extremely suicidal and really crazy when I don’t exercise so I think I don’t have a choice. Last time I quit working out I tried to kill myself with Benadryl and woke up in a hallway half naked. I think it’s the physical aspect of it. I need to put out some physical force else it manifests itself in the form of more manic rampages.
Anyone feel kind of pathetic that people have come on IST, started lifting, made it, stopped lifting and moved on with life.....while you still haven't made it and still seem light years away from making it?
Im specifically talking about Adie (pic related) here.
I was on IST before him, lifting before him, tracking all my diet, macros calories etc. Then Adie comes along, claims he eats "clean" and does a really moronic bro split and builds a solid physique, makes it, gets a GF, then disappears.
And Im still here, still looking like shit, nothings changed. While this part of Adie's life on IST and lifting is literally just a closed chapter in his life.
This is like school all over again.
Wait until you see the zoomer mutlimillionaires on IST. Just don't compare yourself to others man, nothing good can come out of it. You run your own race.
how can you lift for years and get no results? How fricking moronic are you? This is nothing like school or work where plenty of things are outside of your control, literally all you have to do is show up
>Lifting since 2018 and still dyel and can’t 1/2/3/4
how? really, I mean it
i'm not one of those morons who thinks you can get to 1/2/3/4 in 6 months while cutting and staying below 12%, but 6 years dude? what do you even do in the gym and in the kitchen?
Because I’m genetic trash
This is somewhat recent. 220 at 6’2, absolute awful lifts + DYEL and I looked even worse at 175
I haven’t eaten fast food since 2019 and trained religiously 6 days a week, idk. I really don’t Anon, I even considered trt. Some people just can’t make gains
During 2021 I even had a PT barely any progress made. I just gave it up last year.
T. Me
I'm 29 in 18 days, lifting for 4 years now
I can see myself staying active until I cant no more, but I cannot see myself lifting proper at the age of 40. as in, going to the gym every other day or so.
I can however see myself doing a basic dumbell routine and pullups, pushups for quiet some time. even into my 50s.
I think there is still some window to maintain a certain level of muscle
something like this should be the goal, I know this requries a certain level of dedication but you arent juggling with 2pl8
I'm hoping to hit my peak physique before 30 and from there just maintain. I own a rack/barbell/adjustable dumbbells/plates/etc. so I'm never going to stop completely but I do plan on taking it easier as I get older: >no more heavy squat/deadlift/bench >dropping down to 2/3x per week just to maintain >putting more emphasis on cardio (mainly cycling for my knees)
Im 29 now been lifting since 18. I mean it has always been a little bit on and off, some years are more serious, some are maintaining, some are negative progress. I would lie if I said Im not growing out of it a little bit. Im still interested in lifting and maintaining my physique and probably always will but its still so different. I have completely grown out of social media, youtube fitness, influencers etc. Im way too old to be following the currently viral people, I just cannot relate to them at all. It's also a little weird to train in a commercial gym when everybody is 18-21. I feel like that creepy 30 year old boomer.
Definitely looking into switching into a more "mature" gym and downshifing to maybe 1-3 days per week and looking to eventually build a forever home gym and hopefully some day train and lift with my future wife and kids.
I'm just going to take the bait for the umpteenth time and say-... well actually I'm not. I'm late for a dinner date, but I'll address the issue in your next thread
I still lift but these days I do a lot of hiking and rock climbing, too. It's discouraging, a little, that I can't tear up high volume workouts daily like when I was 20 but you just get at it smarter.
People like to point out the fact that Jack's brother also lived to 96, but I bet Jack had a higher quality of life due to his training making him more strong, mobile, and generally physically capable.
Theres a lot of jacked old guys out there. So i will keep lifting until ill die
They all roid tho
I roid too.
I don’t. I’m
All the roiders at my gym have quit lifting or have been forced off gear due to age and lost all their gains and have never been able to make any natural gains because they relied on steroids so heavily and never learned how to train. I’m still going.
There’s 1 other natural at my gym who’s been lifting at the same gym for 50+ years (he’s in his 70s) and he’s still his gains, he still cuts, he still lifts harder than 99% of guys in the gym. He is natty because he is only 145lb shredded (manlet) but every pound on his frame when shredded is pure muscle, you would call him a fake natty if you saw him.
I know he’s natural because I’ve seen him in the gym for the last 20 years I’ve been lifting and have been there for many of his bulks and shredding season.
The whole thing of you needing TRT to keep lifting and have muscle is bullshit.
He is like 5’4 and 145lb shredded in his 70s, but he was also 5’4 and 145lb shredded at age 30-40-50-60 and now in his 70s
You dumb homosexuals are clueless about basically everything when it comes to lifting
1.
>you’re clueless about how much a natty weighs when truely legitimately shredded at single digit bodyfat (it’s way lower than you think) you’ve likely never seen what being shredded actually is in real life
2.
>you’re clueless about muscle and strength as a natural and how you will maintain you gains into old age so long as you keep lifting and dieting the same way you did in you 20s, 30s, 40s
3.
>also wrong about the requirement or TRT, by simply remaining active and lifting weights and eating properly you will maintain good testosterone levels well into old age
You’re essentially all fricking idiots who’ve spent too much time listening to steroid salesman selling you bullshit lies to make you believe you need their products in order to get anywhere, you’ve basically been brainwashed by drug dealers like a fricking gullible moron
How old are you?
Dude never answered
Learn to read a thread before you post
Based beyond anything this board deserves + best post on IST I've read this year.
stop ending sentences with though
roided mfs don't tend to get old tho
How should I know? I like being big and strong. I don't know if and when I won't like it. People don't plan their phases.
I won’t. It’s my autistic special interest. Been doing it since 2003 (yes 2 - 0 - 0 - 3)
In my late 30s now. Even just today I had one of my top 10 best lifting sessions of my lifetime. Shit just keeps getting better.
I laugh when people ask me “who am I trying to impress” - myself of course haha
Damn dude. You'd think you'd get it figured out within 20 years. What are you doing?
>I laugh when people ask me “who am I trying to impress” - myself of course haha
Love you, buddy.
Post body, I want to see the result of 20 years
I'm 40 and don't see myself ever stopping, although I don't really care to get bigger than I am now and just want to stay fit and athletic. My dad is in his 70s and still trains religiously, when I grow up I want to be like him.
Based, I started in 2007.
looking good boomer, i mean why would you stop unless you are forced to
Thanks. I guess everyone has their reasons for stopping- injuries, job stress, family responsibilities, even simply losing interest. I am having too much fun to ever quit, it's integrated into my psyche at this point. Also I generally stick with lighter weights and safer movements for the long term to avoid injuries.
Looking great champ
>I am having too much fun to ever quit, it's integrated into my psyche at this point. Also I generally stick with lighter weights and safer movements for the long term to avoid injuries.
This 100%, it's why I never go less than 8 reps
>Looking great champ
And thanks.
Only just got into lifting. I look bad. If I stop lifting my body will look worse. I cannot return to a point worse than this.
Hopefully I will be eaten by a wild animal before I have to stop lifting.
I started lifting when I was 16, and I'm almost 37 now. I don't lift seriously anymore, and I've taken some breaks or lost motivation for some time, but I always come back to it and I always maintain a physique that's better than most my age. I don't think I will grow out of it, simply because maintenance is so easy and whenever I do find the motivation "peak" my physique again I can just go a little harder for a few months and see where it gets me.
When I grow taller than 5’6
Why would you stop? What age do you think you'll grow out of showering?
I also find it hilarious you guys think older lifters = steroids
There is no fricking old lifters on steroids you young dumb stupid fricks, most guys who roid start in their late teens or early 20s and by their early 30s suffer health complications and are forced off the drugs
And what then? Most of them fall off the face of the planet and you NEVER see them again
99% of these guys can’t handle lifting naturally once they’re force off the drugs, so they just quit
You c**ts are so fricking inexperienced and delusional and have no clue about what you’re talking about
99% of roiders are 16-28 years old, maybe 1% or them will continue roiding after that and not be forced off due to a health scare, but most will have a health scare after roiding from 16-28 range and then say frick it and quit
I know this because I’ve been in the gym for the last 21 years and I’ve seen it all
>c**ts
Im american i can afford to buy roids working a comfy wfh job. Youre stuck with poor australian wages.
Until you have health complications and end up bankrupt after a visit to the hospital lmao. Richer bigger stronger men than you have suffered that fate, you're not special. In my country healthcare is free tho.
Idk dude i live in america theres plenty of old men on roids still alive. Arnold is on trt
He’s just like every other roider
Thinks they’re invincible
This guy will get 1 single health scare and immediately quit like 99% of other roiders
He just doesn’t believe me because he’s on that fake confidence and delusion that the steroids give you
All it takes is some chest pains and a visit to the ER where he’ll get his heart scanned and they’ll tell him it’s like 20% enlarged and that he needs to stop whatever drugs he’s taking and he will likely snap out of the roid-brain, that’s how most of them end up going off the gear
you've never been to a gym obviously
FYI the oldest roider at my gym was forced to quit the steroids completely at 45, he’s the longest lasting roider at my gym, he’s been on steroids since his 20s. There have been many countless other roiders at my gym who were forced off steroids due to a health scare and most of the time it had occurred when they’re about 30 years old give it take a few year, and that is guys who had been roiding from 16-24 till 28-32
The guy who was able to roid for 20 years I spoke about first is literally the exception to the rule, all the other roiders had to quit after 4-8 years of roiding at most.
I goto a gym where roids are openly spoken about and used and it’s NOT the older guys doing it, it’s 99% guys in their 20s
Dumb fricks
Take your meds. You sound more insufferable than the roiders at your gym
Thats assuming I ever started
I think I'll always lift to some degree, but the intensity and frequency will definitely take a sharp decline at some point. Probably around my late 40's/early 50's I'll start moving away from lifting really heavy shit to more body weight, flexibility, mobility focused stuff. Lower weights, higher volume, more cardio, maybe get into some yoga or pilattes type shit
I get extremely suicidal and really crazy when I don’t exercise so I think I don’t have a choice. Last time I quit working out I tried to kill myself with Benadryl and woke up in a hallway half naked. I think it’s the physical aspect of it. I need to put out some physical force else it manifests itself in the form of more manic rampages.
most mentally healthy gymcel
Least snarky dyel on SSRI's
Just use machines when you get older
Anyone feel kind of pathetic that people have come on IST, started lifting, made it, stopped lifting and moved on with life.....while you still haven't made it and still seem light years away from making it?
Im specifically talking about Adie (pic related) here.
I was on IST before him, lifting before him, tracking all my diet, macros calories etc. Then Adie comes along, claims he eats "clean" and does a really moronic bro split and builds a solid physique, makes it, gets a GF, then disappears.
And Im still here, still looking like shit, nothings changed. While this part of Adie's life on IST and lifting is literally just a closed chapter in his life.
This is like school all over again.
Wait until you see the zoomer mutlimillionaires on IST. Just don't compare yourself to others man, nothing good can come out of it. You run your own race.
how can you lift for years and get no results? How fricking moronic are you? This is nothing like school or work where plenty of things are outside of your control, literally all you have to do is show up
I didn’t ask homosexual. Lifting since 2018 and still dyel and can’t 1/2/3/4 so pipe down
It’s just not In me to get big !
Wait are you the irish gay lll
I’m black in Ontario so idk whom that is.
No, that’s me. I’m the OP
Find it funny how you keep popping up. Guess you’re self improooving isn’t going so well, anon
Hello potato Black person.
>Lifting since 2018 and still dyel and can’t 1/2/3/4
how? really, I mean it
i'm not one of those morons who thinks you can get to 1/2/3/4 in 6 months while cutting and staying below 12%, but 6 years dude? what do you even do in the gym and in the kitchen?
Because I’m genetic trash
This is somewhat recent. 220 at 6’2, absolute awful lifts + DYEL and I looked even worse at 175
I haven’t eaten fast food since 2019 and trained religiously 6 days a week, idk. I really don’t Anon, I even considered trt. Some people just can’t make gains
During 2021 I even had a PT barely any progress made. I just gave it up last year.
T. Me
>Because I’m genetic trash
yeah you're black... all your other shortcomings are second to that one
he looks like he never grew into it
6 months training arms+anorexia and he thinks he is some sort of greek god LOL
>At what age will you just give up, goy?
lmao, never.
I haven't even started lifting
Is that fricking Adie? Holy shit, did we get old brehs....
Yep
>at what age will you stop taking care of your own body?
When I'm dead, anon.
when i die of a heart attack. im thinking my early 30s
I want to lift forever, but I know that eventually I'll have bigger priorities in life
I'm 29 in 18 days, lifting for 4 years now
I can see myself staying active until I cant no more, but I cannot see myself lifting proper at the age of 40. as in, going to the gym every other day or so.
I can however see myself doing a basic dumbell routine and pullups, pushups for quiet some time. even into my 50s.
something similar to this
Never, aidie
As you grow older lifting should become about being functional, healthy and feeling good.
Building muscle is cool when you are <30 y.o.
I think there is still some window to maintain a certain level of muscle
something like this should be the goal, I know this requries a certain level of dedication but you arent juggling with 2pl8
Sounds like a cope. Building muscle never stops being "cool" and you can definitely continue to do so well into your 40s and even 50s.
My dad is lifting in his 70s. He's the fittest man I know. People do a double take when I tell them how old he is.
So the answer basically is never.
Never, when I pass I'll be doing deadlifts in the Great Gym in the Sky
When my grandson is born in a couple months. Then it's just maintence lifting and cardio 9 months a year and trying to gain maybe 3.
When I die or become physically incapable.
when I settled for a trade job and fricked my knee up
I'm hoping to hit my peak physique before 30 and from there just maintain. I own a rack/barbell/adjustable dumbbells/plates/etc. so I'm never going to stop completely but I do plan on taking it easier as I get older:
>no more heavy squat/deadlift/bench
>dropping down to 2/3x per week just to maintain
>putting more emphasis on cardio (mainly cycling for my knees)
Im 29 now been lifting since 18. I mean it has always been a little bit on and off, some years are more serious, some are maintaining, some are negative progress. I would lie if I said Im not growing out of it a little bit. Im still interested in lifting and maintaining my physique and probably always will but its still so different. I have completely grown out of social media, youtube fitness, influencers etc. Im way too old to be following the currently viral people, I just cannot relate to them at all. It's also a little weird to train in a commercial gym when everybody is 18-21. I feel like that creepy 30 year old boomer.
Definitely looking into switching into a more "mature" gym and downshifing to maybe 1-3 days per week and looking to eventually build a forever home gym and hopefully some day train and lift with my future wife and kids.
I'm just going to take the bait for the umpteenth time and say-... well actually I'm not. I'm late for a dinner date, but I'll address the issue in your next thread
mid thirties i stopped lifting seriously.
life doesn't allow for it as it once did.
however i still lift and i'm still very physically active.
Just turned 57 and still tryin', but I expect arthritis will get me eventually (hopefully not for a good long while yet tho').
I still lift but these days I do a lot of hiking and rock climbing, too. It's discouraging, a little, that I can't tear up high volume workouts daily like when I was 20 but you just get at it smarter.
The day I die.
People like to point out the fact that Jack's brother also lived to 96, but I bet Jack had a higher quality of life due to his training making him more strong, mobile, and generally physically capable.