Relax, hombre. No obsession here. I'm just following up on the exchange in this thread since I came across this article quite by chance this morning, and thought it was relevant. I already said I liked Schwarzenegger, and enjoyed his movies. But the masonry/real estate story sounds like a bit of a stretch the way he presented it. I could be wrong, but I vaguely recall hearing Ric Drasin talk about how he, Arnold and a few other bodybuilders back in the day would train in the morning, go to the beach afterwards, and work out again later in the day. Just saying it doesn't quite comport with the busy-bee masonry/real estate story. There may well be an explanation; one of timing or whatever. I don't know. Which is how I ended my previous post. I'm just adding to the discussion, bro. No need to get out the pom-poms.
Not point finger at you in particular, but the handful of so called journalists trying to make a buck on Schwarzenegger Qanon hallucinations.
Don’t forget that he was also governor of California and he reached star status when he starred in “Pumping Iron” in ‘78. He had been successful on many levels.
Secrets of the super-agers, who stay razor sharp in their 80s Jill Margo Health editor Jul 14, 2023 Super-agers who preserve a rapier-sharp memory well into their 80s, are less anxious and depressed than their peers, and tend to move faster too, according to a study published by the prestigious journal, The Lancet Healthy Longevity. The study, one of the largest analyses of super-agers, teases out characteristics that may have a role in promoting their resistance to age-related memory loss. A decline in episodic memory, the memory of personal life experiences, is an expected part of normal ageing, but in super-agers it is at least as good as that of healthy adults 20–30 years younger. While being married or cohabiting with a partner is typically associated with better cognitive health later in life, the study found super-agers were more likely than typical older adults to be separated or divorced. Compared with their peers, they also demonstrated greater independence in their day-to-day living, scored higher in intelligence tests, were less likely to have a history of glucose disorders or high blood pressure and reported having been more active in midlife. As the Spanish study was observational, it does not infer causality. It compared one group of 64 super-agers with a group of 55 typical older adults. All participants came from the Vallecas Project, an ongoing longitudinal study of white, community-dwelling individuals aged 70 to 85, independent in activities of daily living, with a survival expectancy of at least four years and no neurological or psychiatric disorders. While more years of formal education are commonly thought to build “cognitive reserve” and reduce the risk of dementia, the study found this was not significant for super-agers. The authors suggest their superior memory was unlikely to be a direct product of more years of general education. But a musical education seemed to matter. Super-agers were more likely to have either a formal or amateur musical background than typical older adults. This reflected other reports that early to midlife formal musical training is associated with larger grey matter volume and improved late-life memory. Sleep, however, seemed to matter less. While the average sleep duration for both groups was within the non-deleterious range, super-agers complained less frequently about not getting enough sleep. Previous brain scans showed that in their mid-70s, both groups had an equivalent volume of total grey matter. But five years later, the brain structure of super-agers was better preserved, with more grey matter in key areas involved in memory and movement. Faster movement speed and better mental health were the strongest factors associated with super-agers. Despite no differences in self-reported exercise levels, tests showed super-agers had better mobility, agility and balance. In clinical tests to measure levels of anxiety and depression, they scored lower than their peers. Previous research has suggested depression and anxiety can impair performance on memory tests in people of all ages, and are risk factors for developing dementia. That both groups had similar concentrations of dementia blood biomarkers, suggested that super-agers had some resistance to typical age-related memory decline, rather than two groups being at different points of a dementia-related process. The authors acknowledged that additional factors, possibly genetic, were linked with super-ageing. In a linked comment in the journal, experts from Harvard said the findings were consistent with reports of resilience to Alzheimer’s disease in super-ageing, although the mechanisms underlying this resilience remained unknown.
And, much as I liked Arnold on screen and as a bodybuilder when I was a kid, this is where we part company: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fzyQluTdQ2g 35 sets per muscle group?! As I noted in the past, this book can seriously mess you up: I know; I owned it. (Not that I recall any reference to 35 sets per muscle group, but it was still a recipe for some serious overtraining.) And, yeah, Mike was perhaps a tad pedantic about the subject.