Starting resistance work at 67

Started 3 March 2025 · 14 replies · 141 hearts · read 1.5k times

TanviMumbai, IN · 3 March 2025

1.4 years ago

Starting resistance work at 67 Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

Anyone else navigating this? I feel as though every piece of advice I read was written for someone with a completely different week.

The social side of this is harder for me than any of the logistics, and I have not found anywhere else where that is discussed practically.

I have tried three arrangements and none of them has survived a difficult week, which suggests I am designing for good weeks.

Sorry for the length. The logistics take longer to describe than they do to do.

RohanPune, IN

Unglamorous, well established, and it genuinely does fit on a postcard: eat enough protein, lift something heavy twice a week.

I want to acknowledge how much unglamorous organising sits behind most of the accounts here. It is real work and it rarely gets named as work.

TaaviTallinn, EE

What I would say is that this is the least interesting and most reliable part of the whole business. It works and it is dull.

BramGhent, BE

What Ren described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

My protein went up and my energy followed within about three weeks, which was a much faster effect than I expected.

AnnikaStockholm, SE

I keep a shake for the days when eating is not happening, and it is not elegant and it means the day is not a write-off.

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BaySt Ives, UK

Taavi has already said most of this and I want to add the one part that was different for me.

Somebody here suggested spreading it across the day rather than one large meal, and it turned out my body was much happier with that.

NkemPort Harcourt, NG

Adding a name to the list of people this helped.

MaritGroningen, NL

My experience is that this needed a plan for about eight weeks and then became automatic and I have not thought about it since.

MaryamBirmingham, UK

The advice that helped least was to eat more protein without any suggestion of how, when my appetite had gone.

AshwinBengaluru, IN

I found the strength work protective in a way I did not appreciate until a difficult stretch where everything else fell away.

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RonanBelfast, NI

Marit has already said most of this and I want to add the one part that was different for me.

Protein first at each meal was what worked for me. Nothing more complicated than the order things went on the plate.

TabbyMargate, UK

The list on the fridge idea came from this circle and it is the single most useful thing I have taken from anywhere.

I am adding this thread to the circle's standing resources because the practical answers on this page are the best set we have.

LenaMunich, DE

What I found is that the evening is where mine falls short, because by then my appetite has gone and I am tired.