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Physique After 50: How to Use Resistance Training to Feel Younger, Maintain Muscle & Fight the Effects of Aging
Forget settling for the so-called "golden" years. Instead, join the platinum club! Membership is open to anyone, as long as you're willing to take care of your body and your health as you age and as you experience some of the best years of your life. Physique After 50 argues that physique training doesn’t have to end the moment you turn fifty. Aging is an important part of life, and this is the prime of your life. At the same time, as you age there are real physical and hormonal changes going on in your body. Being fifty is not the same as forty, so of course your exercise needs to account for this. Most younger fitness trainers out there just can’t appreciate what these aging-related changes mean for you and your training. Physique After 50 offers real-world, practical training advice from Coach Scott Abel. Scott himself is in his mid-fifties, and has experienced these aging-related changes firsthand, both with himself and with his one-on-one coaching clients. By using smart training strategies (and by leaving your ego at the door) you can look and feel great during what can be some of the most fulfilling decades of your life. You can feel physically younger even as you embrace the wisdom that comes with age. Physique After 50 book tells you how to do exactly that. Physique After 50 ● How aging affects your fitness and training, and what to do about it. ● Three different workout programs geared specifically for the "Physique After 50" demographic. ● You can choose which of the three programs is right for you depending on whether you are a beginner, intermediate, or advanced trainee. (There is also advice on progressing from one program to the next.) ● Bodypart-specific training “tweaks” to avoid injuries (especially those "overuse" injuries that are often related to age). ● How to balance rest and recovery with training. ● “Forget About It” — what forms of training to ignore or simply stop using entirely as you age. ● What elements of the warmup are more important (and how most people do these things wrong). ● The hormonal realities of aging (for both men and women), and what that means for you and your training. Buy Physique After 50 and join the "Platinum club" today!
141 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 11, 2016
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April 30, 2021
Over the years I have read many books on health and fitness. And most of them I have learned from and appreciated. A few were transformative. I have high hopes for the impact of this volume. It was recommended by a friend, and I have since recommended it to several friends, and even my youngest brother. I was already well aware that how I trained in my teens and 20’s did not work in 30’s and 40’s; but I was not prepared for the difference in my 50’s. For about 4 years now I have had nagging injury after injury, or repeated injury. I have sprained both knees at least 3 times. What we called ‘water on the knee’ when I was in competitive sports. Back then they would rain it off and I would be back out on the field. The Doctor’s now say it is swollen to protect it. Take it easy, stay off it. Rest, elevate, ice, repeat.
This book has really opened my eyes to the difference as we age, and how we need to train different, smarter, better. And it has helped me to create a more realistic training plan for my age and limitations. The chapters in this book are:
Introduction
he Realities of Aging, Muscle Loss and Sarcopenia
What Form of Training is Best?
Forget About It
Crucial Considerations
Safety and Injury Prevention
Lifestyle
How to Balance Rest and Recovery
Bodypart-Specific Training Tweaks
A Program for Physique After 50
Conclusion
The Programs
3-Day Per Week Beginner Program
Hardgainer Solution Workouts
6-Day Physique After 50 Program
A few of the passages I highlighted were:
““Physique after 50” is not just simply a cosmetic solution for our age group. It’s also a cautionary tale of what happens when people let life get ahead of them. They end up leading “reactive” lives, rather than lives of design.”
“The fitness lifestyle isn’t about living longer; it’s about living better with the time you are given.”
“Sarcopenia presents a host of issues that include weakness, fatigue, lack of stamina, lack of vitality and verve, diabetes, and effects of previous injuries. There are several that deserve focus.”
What is Sarcopenia you might ask? One definition is:
“Sarcopenia is a condition characterized by loss of skeletal muscle mass and function. Although it is primarily a disease of the elderly, its development may be associated with conditions that are not exclusively seen in older persons.”
Yes we are getting older. And that causes changes. But a book like this will give us tools to help counter some of those effects and maybe even reverse them. I no longer aspire to be in competitive shape. But I do want to be in better shape than I am, for my wife and four children. I want to be healthier and happier. And this volume provides tools to help work towards that goal. For me the workouts at the end of the book are a good starting place. I just wish he had options for just free weights. All the work outs focus around body weight, dumbbells and pullies. I do not have pullies but have great PowerBlock's so plan to modify. I will use those combined with workouts from Team Body Project, and a lot more walking.
As mentioned, I have recommended this book to several people. One just into his 40’s but I told him I wish I had read something like this 10 years ago, and because of his recent injuries it was a big selling point. I will not apply all the information from this book, but a lot of it is applicable. It is an excellent read that I benefited from. And I can recommend it with no qualms or hesitations. If you are in your 50’s or even approaching them, consider giving it a read to help with your health and wellness goals.
This book has really opened my eyes to the difference as we age, and how we need to train different, smarter, better. And it has helped me to create a more realistic training plan for my age and limitations. The chapters in this book are:
Introduction
he Realities of Aging, Muscle Loss and Sarcopenia
What Form of Training is Best?
Forget About It
Crucial Considerations
Safety and Injury Prevention
Lifestyle
How to Balance Rest and Recovery
Bodypart-Specific Training Tweaks
A Program for Physique After 50
Conclusion
The Programs
3-Day Per Week Beginner Program
Hardgainer Solution Workouts
6-Day Physique After 50 Program
A few of the passages I highlighted were:
““Physique after 50” is not just simply a cosmetic solution for our age group. It’s also a cautionary tale of what happens when people let life get ahead of them. They end up leading “reactive” lives, rather than lives of design.”
“The fitness lifestyle isn’t about living longer; it’s about living better with the time you are given.”
“Sarcopenia presents a host of issues that include weakness, fatigue, lack of stamina, lack of vitality and verve, diabetes, and effects of previous injuries. There are several that deserve focus.”
What is Sarcopenia you might ask? One definition is:
“Sarcopenia is a condition characterized by loss of skeletal muscle mass and function. Although it is primarily a disease of the elderly, its development may be associated with conditions that are not exclusively seen in older persons.”
Yes we are getting older. And that causes changes. But a book like this will give us tools to help counter some of those effects and maybe even reverse them. I no longer aspire to be in competitive shape. But I do want to be in better shape than I am, for my wife and four children. I want to be healthier and happier. And this volume provides tools to help work towards that goal. For me the workouts at the end of the book are a good starting place. I just wish he had options for just free weights. All the work outs focus around body weight, dumbbells and pullies. I do not have pullies but have great PowerBlock's so plan to modify. I will use those combined with workouts from Team Body Project, and a lot more walking.
As mentioned, I have recommended this book to several people. One just into his 40’s but I told him I wish I had read something like this 10 years ago, and because of his recent injuries it was a big selling point. I will not apply all the information from this book, but a lot of it is applicable. It is an excellent read that I benefited from. And I can recommend it with no qualms or hesitations. If you are in your 50’s or even approaching them, consider giving it a read to help with your health and wellness goals.
May 22, 2019
Refreshing approach to training
My initial impression as I read was that It seemed that I would be taking a step backwards in my training if I followed this program. But, as I continued to read it all was making sense, particularly as I thought about my current training and how it wasn’t quite taking me to where I wanted to be with my physique goals. As I finished the book I was feeling a sense of relief that perhaps the suggested training programs would really benefit me. If you’re 50+ I highly recommend this book to you.
My initial impression as I read was that It seemed that I would be taking a step backwards in my training if I followed this program. But, as I continued to read it all was making sense, particularly as I thought about my current training and how it wasn’t quite taking me to where I wanted to be with my physique goals. As I finished the book I was feeling a sense of relief that perhaps the suggested training programs would really benefit me. If you’re 50+ I highly recommend this book to you.
December 30, 2016
improveing years
how beneficial your programme is to you is of some importance to your well-being. the fact that you can improve that level of well-being is also of importance to your attitude to yourself and to your outlook on life. A sensible programme produces greater favourab!e results which can only be beneficial to you and your way of life.
how beneficial your programme is to you is of some importance to your well-being. the fact that you can improve that level of well-being is also of importance to your attitude to yourself and to your outlook on life. A sensible programme produces greater favourab!e results which can only be beneficial to you and your way of life.
October 25, 2016
Excellent!
This is a "must read" for anyone who's interested in honest, sustainable and safe fitness training... at any age.
Yes, the focus of this book is the over 50 demographic but the principles are applicable to pretty much everyone.
Recommended.
This is a "must read" for anyone who's interested in honest, sustainable and safe fitness training... at any age.
Yes, the focus of this book is the over 50 demographic but the principles are applicable to pretty much everyone.
Recommended.
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