You are over forty, and you decide to engage in bodybuilding, especially if you have some sports experience in your youth. Then, you should know, after forty you have to train in a special way. So the way you have practiced workout at twenty or even five/ten years ago, it is impossible. Is the problem in age and must we slow down? No, it isn’t.
Remember the reason for which you trained in your youth! In most cases – to be liked by girls. Well, now you have other priorities – you need energy, efficiency and absolute health. Those who are not practicing sport, up to forty accumulate different kinds of chronic diseases, mostly caused by physical inactivity. By the time you reach 40, you lose almost half of sex hormones. The level of bio-energy is reduced accordingly. What kind of working ability can be discussed! The best “medicine” will be – bodybuilding. But it must be applied skillfully. Trying to achieve higher strength would not be any more on first place. It is necessary a completely different approach.
Before you start training it is necessary to visit a doctor. It may happen that exercising exacerbate chronic symptoms.
What can you expect in the gym, if direct medical contraindications for the training you don’t have? Oddly enough, even at forty, you can set the highest goals. Nothing wrong with your muscles over the years has happened. If they reduced the strength and volume, it is only because of your low activity. The power and volume – can be acquired at any age. Theoretically, with age – muscle cells lose their contractile proteins structure; the one, that make cell voluminous and strong. However, these losses begin only after 60. Another thing that makes in years people to be afraid is reduction of joints mobility. Flexibility at 40, actually decreases, but the connective tissue of the joints at any age with varying degrees of difficulty can be stretched. The main thing is that the program should be composed correctly; stretching exercises should be done regular and conscientious.