Happy Bday big guy!! hope you enjoy your special day!!!
Life after 50
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Happy Bday big guy!! hope you enjoy your special day!!!
Happy Birthday! I keep hearing “50 is the new 30!”.Hit the big 53 over the weekend.
I'm dating a 34 year old if that's what you mean ...hahah
So you're saying she's 4 years older than you?
Apart from the high intensity celebrating, what does your workout look like these days as you round the corner to 50?Yep, September 21st is right around the corner and that will be the end of the 40's for me. A bunch of my friends are also virgos so as a pre-celebration, we all went to Las Vegas last week and called it "Virgos in Vegas". Luckily for me, all of my friends are hot as hell. Here's a pic I took of them standing in the Marquee Day Club at the Cosmopolitan.
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So if turning 50 means more excursions like this, I'm all in.
Baron
ET Founder
Lately I've been doing 3 days on, 1 day off.
Day 1 - Quads, Calves, Abs
Day 2 - Back, Biceps, Hamstrings
Day 3 - Chest, Triceps, Shoulders, Abs
I usually work out between lunch and dinner, which is around 3:30PM.
Diet:
Breakfast: Smoothie with assorted frozen fruit and 40 grams of protein.
Lunch and Dinner: Half the plate is meat like grilled chicken or steak, the other half is a salad with a vinegarette dressing (usually greek or Italian).
Overall I'm shooting for 160 grams of protein per day.
Fun at night: Usually a couple of handfuls of BBQ potato chips, which is my favorite. And along with that, I usually always have a couple of Bourbon drinks with a splash of Pepsi and a lemon wedge. I keep my carbs low at lunch and dinner so I can justify having the chips and alcohol at night.
On Sundays, I will go off the rails for a meal or two, which usually means pizza and/or bacon cheeseburgers.
Day 1 - Quads, Calves, Abs
Day 2 - Back, Biceps, Hamstrings
Day 3 - Chest, Triceps, Shoulders, Abs
I usually work out between lunch and dinner, which is around 3:30PM.
Diet:
Breakfast: Smoothie with assorted frozen fruit and 40 grams of protein.
Lunch and Dinner: Half the plate is meat like grilled chicken or steak, the other half is a salad with a vinegarette dressing (usually greek or Italian).
Overall I'm shooting for 160 grams of protein per day.
Fun at night: Usually a couple of handfuls of BBQ potato chips, which is my favorite. And along with that, I usually always have a couple of Bourbon drinks with a splash of Pepsi and a lemon wedge. I keep my carbs low at lunch and dinner so I can justify having the chips and alcohol at night.
On Sundays, I will go off the rails for a meal or two, which usually means pizza and/or bacon cheeseburgers.
So you train 6 days out of 8? While I admire the discipline and dedication, that's just a bit too "fitness lifestyle" for me. You don't find such frequency (and presumably volume) at all taxing?
If I recall correctly, you used to do full body routines before of various configurations. Interestingly, I just started an upper/lower split routine on Tuesday, with the second workout of the week completed earlier this morning. I haven't done a split routine since 2005 but I thought I'd give it a try, but this time with each muscle group being worked only once. I'll give it a go for at least a month and then check my strength and a few key measurements to see if there is any difference either way. Not that I expect it. Although I hope it doesn't go the wrong way.
If you're getting 40 grams of protein in a smoothie, I assume there is some protein powder involved. After some years of shunning protein powders, I started taking some whey isolate about a month ago so that I can cut down on my meat consumption and maybe add a few grams on top of that. What kind of protein are you taking? And for context, since you are shooting for 160 grams a day, about how much do you weigh, if I may ask?
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Baron
ET Founder
The split makes the whole setup less taxing but after day 3, my body is like "Ok, it's time for a break".
Here's the protein I use the most:
And I also use this one because they've got a bigger variety of flavors:
I'm currently weighing around 177 lbs upon waking.
So apart from abs, you work each muscle group directly twice every 8 days. How many sets per muscle group per workout? (I'm really fixated on this volume/frequency thing, eh?)
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