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Gaining weight and restoring reasonable muscle mass at 60+
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I could have wrote what you said! I was so shocked when it seemed that suddenly when I turned 70, I went from being a gym rat, to hurting myself closing a car door. My shoulders hurt so much every morning that I want to scream when I move my arm. Then my elbow got tender from doing bicep curls. Then my knee from going down a flight of stairs. Working out has been my life, until now. So I follow Will Harlow on YouTube, Thriving after 50 and now I have a bit of hope. The adjustment to doing so much less has been long and hard. But at 72, necessary. I wish us both luck with getting back some muscle.
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I am cautiously optimistic at this point. My nephew is a weight lifter and wanted to know how much I could bench press. It proved to be 150 lbs which he thought was good for my age (77) but seemed low to me. So I asked my trainer if we could try improving that. And this is so interesting. Three weeks in and we still are just working on lower intensities and a lot of push-ups but it's very slow, and I do think that I am actually gaining a little strength without hurting myself. My goal right now is just to get to 160 lbs.