Thread: Building Muscle/Working out

I mostly ride a bicycle. I was doing mostly off road trails the last few years but I am back on the road now waiting for an elbow injury to heal. Can't take the hits on the trail and heal too.

I broke a collarbone and separated my AC joint in a bicycle accident 5 years ago. When I healed up I got into free weights to build bone density and muscle. I did basic power lifting including squats and deadlifts. I didn't do bench presses but I did do military presses instead among other moves.

I got away from it the last year or so as at 60 I don't have the energy to ride the bike, lift weights and work for a living. I ain't giving up the bicycling and I can't give up the work so that left the weights. I am thinking of trying to work it in and ride less. I do miss it.

To anyone who hasn't tried it and says they are afraid of getting "big", it is easier said then done. It takes a tremendous amount of dedication and hard work to get the kind of body that a Bill Pearl or an Arnold have. The average person will never come close but the benefits of health and strength are for real and are atainable.

I'm kinda into strength training, all free weights and body weight exercises. I first decided to start strengthening up about a year ago when my (now ex)girlfriend was sitting on my lap and I decided it would be a good idea to try to stand up without removing my girlfriend...I came down on her like a tree. The only things hurt were my pride and a small scrape on my knee, but I've been working out on and off ever since.


...oh and that incident had nothing to do with us breaking up.