It's Never Too Late, Until It Is.

I've been training for over 20 years.

I've benched over 2x my body weight. I've squatted over 3x my body weight. I was a few kilos shy of deadlifting 4x my body weight.

I've added over 50kg of weight to my body and then brought it back down. I've bulked and dieted and bulked and dieted and now carry around 40kg more muscle and less fat than when I started.

I've pushed my body to its absolute limits. I've transformed many times to extreme levels at both ends of the spectrum.

I never did it for competition. I did it because I loved it and wanted to look a certain way.

I'm now 42 and my days of changing and progressing are long done. 

There isn't anything I can do to my body that will make it grow new muscle. My body has seen everything. I'm not getting stronger, only weaker. All I can do now is work even harder and stay consistent to try and keep what I've built.

It's a losing battle, but at least I built it.

We get old. we slow down. Priorities change. Past injuries catch up. New injuries happen. I don't even know where some injuries come from? We lose aggression. We lose drive. We have more distractions.

This is life.

The habits we form in our younger years are so important as they affect what happens as we get older.

We build neural pathways and associations between what we do and how our body responds. We teach our bodies how to process foods, how to recover, how to move. After a while, it's just what our body does naturally.

But it takes time.

It's never too late to start taking care of yourself and really, as you get older it becomes even more important.

I've spoken to countless 35-50 year olds who finally, after hitting their overweight, out-of-shape, weak, muscleless, depressed and frustrated low point, discovered that a quick fix is no longer an option as their body just doesn't respond the same way as when they were younger.

A change of lifestyle is needed. A change that most people don't want to make as they're quite comfortable doing what they're doing. And yet, what they're doing is what got them to the point of needing that change.

The overhaul probably wouldn't have been needed had they started making smaller changes years ago. Time goes by quickly and before you know it, you've gone from being indestructible in your 20s with limitless energy to broken in your 40s asleep on the couch at 6pm 

You can always take better care of yourself. You can always eat better. You can always train better. However there is a finite amount of time before your body doesn't respond the way you want it to, and your changes become reactive rather than proactive. 

Don't find yourself in a desperate state trying to fix what a lifestyle of excessive food, drink, lack of strength and muscle and too much fat have caused.

It's never too late. until it is.