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Originally Posted by cantdrv55
I have just recently started doing it. I’ll be 62 years old next month and have been retired for 4 years. A couple of weeks ago at our local CrossFit gym, a younger person, female, lifted the same weights I did, jumped as many jump ropes too and did as many V-ups AND beat my time. Granted she’s only 46 but it was still humbling. I don’t feel old but that experience reminded me that I am old.
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Been there. Most guys don’t realize how far they’ve slipped because day to day life doesn’t expose your lowering performance ceiling. Then you go to a CrossFit gym and as you are doing 10 burpees, 10 pull-ups and 10 air squats you look over and half the group is finishing the air squats as you finish your burpees and it doesn’t seem humanly possible. I still Crossfit at 59 but I do my own weights and own rep schemes (read that as LESS) and it works for me. I’m fit for my age, which is all you can really compete against. Youthful engines, male or female, will bury a fit older guy in short order. It’s really not fair.