Your “body of work” ought to define you at the end of your days.
What you give out over one day matters, but nothing like over the long term, or especially over your life.
You give a lot to the gym for one week and you will have benefits. Give a lot to the gym over one year, and you will get massive benefits which change your life.
Then if you can give one year, then it’s likely you are capable of giving many years to your physical and emotional health. You have strong deep down habits that serve you so well without you even thinking about it.
Those of you who have given years to mastering your craft, seeing how far your body will go, how much your mind can imagine you can go, ought to think of it in a new perspective.
Unlike team sports, when your performance drops off and you eventually drop off the team (unless you are Diane Griffiths in her 52nd year on the team!), your gym efforts never ought to drop off.
From 30 to 70 years of age, your muscle and bone density can only drop off 5%, IF you training every week and keep strength training, and keep on pushing yourself.
40 is nowhere near old or should it affect your performance, I plan on getting more and more out of myself every day in my 50’s, we have plenty of members in their 50’s, 60s and 70’s who are at their all time high level of performance.
It all starts with keeping on building on your years of great service in the gym. Keep showing up and you WILL continually get better as you age. Your internal health will be incredible and you will be actively DICTATING and INFLUENCING YOUR HEALTH in a VERY POSITIVE WAY!!
