I know the conventional wisdom is that you’re on some inevitable and extremely steep decline path when you hit 40, but it’s mostly Fat Acceptance (et al.) lies.

I’m nearly as strong and fit now at 47 as I was when I was 22, and I was very strong and fit then. Also, I’ve achieved that with much less effort and time spent because I have done it more intelligently and efficiently. The main difference I’ve noticed is that I take longer to recover now. If I work out really hard, I need 2-3 days to fully get over soreness and when I was 20 I needed around one full day.

And to reiterate something I’ve said in other posts, I’m not particularly athletic and I also have pretty bad genetics. I am, however, extremely fucking stubborn.

But if I can do it, nearly anyone could if they wanted to.