If you’re going for good form instead of speed or max weight, make sure to take the time to squeeze the muscle being worked at peak contraction. Pause at the peak and squeeze for a full second.

I would suggest occasionally changing things up instead of only doing slow lifts. You can do this safely with light weight. Explosive light lifting trains the nervous system to generate force quickly, which transfers to daily tasks and general athleticism. It recruits fast twitch fibers without going heavy and is easy to do safely for older people with proper form and loading. Women should be lifting weights every week too; it’s not just for men.

Finally, do not neglect your cardio. I’ve seen big ripped dudes run out of breath after walking up a flight of stairs. At a minimum, aim to get your heart rate over 120 bpm for 20 minutes three times a week and work up from there.

Your VO2 max is a strong indicator of longevity. Good cardio also has practical benefits like chasing or running away from a bad guy or winning a struggle for a weapon. If you watch MMA fights, you’ll notice that in evenly matched bouts, the person with b-e-t-t-e-r* cardio usually wins.

I’ve been into fitness and nutrition for decades.

*I’m not allowed to type out this apparently horrible word on this site.
P.S. Guys, if you cared about this site, then you would at least try to improve the commenting system. Everyone complains about it, and nothing is ever done. Why would people seek out a site as frustrating as this one?

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“I believe the phrase is called ‘suicidal empathy,’ and we saw that with this female livestreamer during New Year’s Eve in Germany. I don’t know what the point Kunshikitty was trying to make. Some alleged that she was doing this to show how safe Cologne was during this celebration.

Ten years ago, migrants committed a mass rape in the city, where almost 100 women were sexually assaulted by a horde of at least 1,000 men, mostly of North African or Arab descent. For Kunshikitty, her livestream ended with her being stoned by migrants. During the broadcast, she’s hit with a foreign object (via Breitbart):
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Shortly before the clock struck midnight, Cologne-based Twitch streamer Kunshikitty, who has nearly a quarter of a million followers on the platform, was broadcasting live in a bright pink outfit. As she was walking through a crowd of what appeared to be mostly foreign background men, she was struck in the head with an unidentified object.

‘Ow, ow, I got hit by something. I got hit in the head with something,’ she said, according to the Bild newspaper.

Minutes later, she was struck again by what appeared to be a firecracker projectile, to which she replied: ‘I think if I were a two-meter-tall bouncer, they wouldn’t have done that.’ She later said that she plans on filing a complaint to the police.
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[Note: good luck with getting the police to really investigate this ‘Kunshikitty’. One of Mandanis policies came into play when he got sworn into office – that being to have police not investigate ‘immigrant’ crime.]

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ht* tps://thefederalist.com/2025/12/29/the-lefts-top-25-lies-of-2025/

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“​The Trump administration announced it is pausing all child-care payments to Minnesota in light of explosive revelations about Somali-saturated fraud rings siphoning billions from federal welfare programs. State officials in Ohio, where the second-largest Somali population resides in the United States, are begging for a federal fraud investigation there.
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As shocking as the estimated $9 billion theft in Minnesota is, it rests upon an even deeper level of scammery. For if it is fraud to take taxpayer money for childcare while not providing it, isn’t it also fraud to take taxpayer money for early childhood development that actually damages early childhood development?

The truth is, ‘affordable childcare’ is itself a scam. The billions spent on daycare result in worse outcomes for society than if these programs never existed. Industry researchers have known and lied about this for decades. Yes, that makes them frauds, too, and their mark — is there any other mark on the planet? — the endlessly spigoted American taxpayers.
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‘Affordable childcare’ has been a Democrat campaign demand much longer than the Clintons’ infamous ‘it takes a village’ efforts in the ’90s. The notoriously ineffective Head Start federal preschool program was a key part of Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society scam that, as Christopher Caldwell detailed so well, traded the rest of Americans’ constitutional ways of life for bankrupting welfare hush money.

From 1965, when it began, to 2020, Head Start has cost American taxpayers $240 billion, according to a Heritage Foundation report. The program sold as an educational boost for America’s poorest children has done nothing in 60 years to improve education outcomes for those children, according to federal evaluators. Yet it currently gets $9 billion in taxpayer funds per year. Pretty scammy!
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At the same time, thanks for the challenge Paul, but I’m going to respectfully decline. Not because I think it’s impossible, but because as someone nearly 60 years old, there aren’t many days I’m moving anything near my max weights. Why? Because I don’t heal like I’m 20 anymore. I’m doing very slow reps (8-12 for most) at very modest weight. Very slow as in 3-4 second eccentrics, with as close to perfect form as I can muster. Every single rep.

For the record, I’m currently 6′ and low 180s now with a 12.x% bodyfat per a SECA machine at my local gym. I’m 3 points from “platinum” in terms of lean muscle mass and low body fat. And there aren’t many folks in that Platinum realm. For my age I’m probably close to the top 5% in terms of body build and bodyfat – maybe close to the top 2%.

So yeah, for those who are younger, and especially those who tangle with bad guys for a living, I think this is a laudable goal. For us old farts, well, you and me are better off with lighter weight, better form and slower reps for each movement. Hire a personal trainer to help educate you on good form and technique. Just as I see bad form on indoor ranges when it comes to handling guns, I see similar poor form in gyms now that I know enough to be kinda dangerous when it comes to lifting stuff and putting it back down. Your man card doesn’t imbue you with the knowledge of how to lift with maximum safety and best effects for the effort you expend. If you’re the guy who races through your reps and whips stuff around, yes, I’m talking about you. Or the guy who puts on lots of plates to impress the girls and does only about 10% of the range of motion that’s required to build real muscle.

Consider starting out with a 100,000 pound challenge and then try to replicate it in fewer days for your next cycle while not “cheating” on form.

And if you’re brand new to the gym, go easy my friend. Do some simple compound movements AFTER some stretching. Get some competent help from trainers to reduce the likelihood of personal injury and strains. Be smart about it. You’ll see changes in 2-3 months and in six months you’ll really like what you see. Also look into TRT if you’re struggling to lose weight and gain muscle as an older guy.