Steve James wrote:You will wish for your condition at 45 when you're 65. So, kiss yourself and enjoy it now. You will not get younger, but you can always try to improve.
What nature gives, time will take away --and that means everything. Whatever you can do now, you will be unable to do at some point. But, worry about is the worst thing you can do, and is simply a waste of time.
Afa injuries and over-training, they're both inevitable if one is competitive. So, it's probably better to stop or chill at some point. Oh yeah, you can be a Helio Gracie, Gene LeBell, etc., and grapple all one's life. If Helio had been better at 80 than at 20, he'd have entered the UFC.
Ya know, I think that tcc's slowness was why so many martial artists took it up later in life. Many of them could fight already.
Peacedog wrote:As someone in their late 40's this is what I've learned so far.
1) You cannot allow yourself to fall behind/become irregular with your training schedule. Missed training sessions result in an almost immediate deconditioning. And getting back to where you were takes forever.
2) Volume is the enemy. High volume anything completely wrecks me. I just cannot recover anymore. Even with the primary lifts I now do sets of three instead of fives.
3) Injury prevent takes priority. As most older active people will tell you, you pay for the injuries you sustain when younger. It is not that I am fragile. It is just very easy to aggravate an old injury. And I have several.
4) Nutrition is now important. Drink too much, smoke too much, eat poorly for a few days in a row, and I cannot perform at all. Maintaining body composition is a choice between being draconian with nutrition or accept being a fat ass who feels like crap all the time and cannot perform.
Michael wrote:In case the Kubrick movie reference wasn't clear, I have seen Chinese Medicine references that suggest after the age of 35 a man should limit his bedroom activities, decreasing as the years go by. Some books have schedules that say X age = maximum Y per week. Multiples are especially deleterious and should be discarded.
Overall, healthy people back then, if they had enough food, probably had more vitality than the average healthy person does now.
For example, consider American Civil War soldiers' ability to march all day with 60 pounds compared to American soldiers today, with both groups being fed well, and so on.
Despite the relentless march of technology—and in some ways, because of it—soldiers on the march are carrying more weight on their backs than ever before, even going back to the days of swords and armor.
What the heck happened? Over the last decade, hyped technologies such as robotic mules and wearable exoskeletons promised to free up soldiers from hauling so much gear. Instead, the demands of the modern battlefield only increased the load.
In the American Civil War, a typical Union soldier might carry a total of 60 lbs. of equipment, including a ten-pound musket. By WWII, an American soldier could be carrying 75 lbs., which is why many wounded soldiers drowned during the D-Day landings in 1944.
The Armed Forces have always known this is a problem. Since 1945, the military has carried out at least five major surveys of the soldier’s load. All of them agreed soldiers were overburdened and looked for ways to decrease the weight. And all of them failed, because loads have not only increased for the modern soldier, but have more than doubled.
In 2016, the Marine Corps Times reported a new standard for strength and endurance. An average Marine Corps infantry officer should to be physically able to carry 152 lbs. for nine miles. That load might sound extreme, but even official documents describe carrying a 100 lbs. as standard. In the ensuing debate about whether this was realistic, one marine infantryman described carrying more than 200 lbs. during missions in Afghanistan.
The Pentagon already makes everything from Kevlar, carbon fiber, and other lightweight materials, though this trend has led to a widespread joke: A soldier carries 100 lbs. of the lightest kit imaginable.
We haven't even mentioned squad and platoon weapons, and let's face it: Someone has to carry the ammunition. A single 60mm mortar round weighs four .lbs, as does a rocket for the AT-4 launcher. A belt of ammunition for the squad's M249 machine gun weighs six lbs, and soldiers tend to carry all they can. “There’s direct correlation between how much fire you can put down and who wins,” says Watling. “The requirement for ammunition is not going to go down.”
And then there is the bane of every technology user: batteries. “Almost everything a soldier carries today requires batteries,” notes James King in a piece for the Modern War Institute. Batteries for the platoon’s AN/PRC-117 radio weigh four lbs. each, and the radio burns through them rapidly. King estimates that the average soldier goes into action with a hefty 20 lbs of batteries.
Michael wrote:
Based on that, I think the Chinese Medicine age X and maximum Y per week in those books are probably too high for men today, but maybe they can be a rough guideline with a change to the equation, something like: Age X = Maximum Y—N per week. N represents all the variables for a particular person, such as constitution, exactly how you do your Y, and so on.
My opinion is that once a man begins to notice a big drop in his recovery time from exertion, generally after age 35-40, maybe like what Peacedog described in his weightlifting, then you have to minimize the Y per week to 1 or 2 and never do multiple Y's in one day.
Also, try to develop sensitivity to your own energy level so you can feel within yourself when you have reached a limit. Y's per week, poor sleep, and even stimulants like coffee, if over done, can affect performance levels much more once you're on the downhill side of things. Gotta adjust your habits accordingly.
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