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jeroen

over 8 years ago

Hi guys

I'm 33 years old. I have a home, a wife with a full time job, a 4 month old child and a full time job of at least 40 hours with mostly nightshifts. Pretty busy life. I have a little bitt of experience with callisthenics. I tried level one and thats a good place to start for me.

I'm curious if here are more people around the same age as mine. I want to know what is your experience with training, developing muscles and planning it in a busy life.

If you stick to the program. How many hours are you training?

I wished I have knowned this schedule when I was a teenager. Is it is the best time to start and creatie a good base!

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cpotter24602

over 8 years ago

Hi Jeroen,

Sorry I didn't see your message earlier. I was wondering if there was anyone my age on here as well. I'm 31 and just started the program about 2.5 months ago. I have 2 kids and 40 hour a week job (but its a day job). My wife stays home with the kids, so I'm probably not as busy as you are.

I was worried about being too old for this program, but I'm convinced thats just an excuse. I'm having really good results so far and feel great about the progress I've made. I started at level 1 and am working on level 5 now and planning to go to 6 sometime this week when I figure out when and where to do the muscle up negatives. I've always been really skinny, worse than Christian's "before" pic. So far I've gone from 130 lbs. to 145 lbs. (thats 59 kg to 65.75 for you guys in Denmark) the most I've ever weighed. I've really focused on eating bigger portions and 2-3 good sized snacks every day as well.

I work out first thing in the morning at 5 am. The only way this would work for me is to do it while my family is sleeping. It takes me about 1.5 to 1.75 hours. I'm going to start trying to cut down the rest times between sets because it looks like the workouts could start taking longer.

Go for it! I'm sure you won't regret it! It feels really good to progress in these exercises and do things that you physically couldn't do before! Thank you Christian for putting this program together, its been the perfect exercise program for me at this time in my life.

-Chris

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Daniel Malo

over 8 years ago

Great answer! I think you nailed it, thanks for taking time to respond bro. Keep going at it and never give up. BarBrothers ALL DAY EVERYDAY!! Salute!!

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jeroen

over 8 years ago

Nobody around the same age? People older than me?

haldemannyannic

over 8 years ago

I think here are more teenagers ( 15-20).
But its nice to hear that and older person do the same stuff :)

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Daniel Malo

over 8 years ago

Yeah man, I'm sure there are others. But mostly this program attracted a lot of teenagers. Chris' transformation video really got to us, and for good reason. Anyway, keep it up man!!! You have the support of all your brothers no matter the age! Whatever you need bro, we're here. Let's go!!!
BarBrothers ALL DAY EVERYDAY!!
Salute!!!

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jeroen

over 8 years ago

Than I have to try to prove that 30 ers also can get a muscular body.......

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Daniel Malo

over 8 years ago

And you will!!!!

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raypolyglot

about 8 years ago

I also wondered if anyone older was doing this and what progress they are making. I haven't started yet. Doing a 4 month muscle rebuild program first. 1 month into it. I will be starting in September. I am 47 and nervous about trying this.
How is your progress going?

jeroen

about 8 years ago

One thing I know for sure is that you don't have to be nervous. I started with losing weight. I am not overweighted, Just realised that it goes a bit easier if there is less bodyweight to lift. I am doing, for the first months, more cardio like running (Max 5km), burpees etc. Just to make my condition better. And doing the basics exercises(pushups, pullups, squats, dips and kneeraises), training for more reps and sets. When I feel and see progress I sometimes do explosives or a heavier exercise of a basic exercise. Using chris ' s program as progression list. So I don't do the complete program. Maybe when al the basics really go easy en perfect, I gonna do the program as much as I can. Don't know if this is the right way, it works for me. Accept youre age, only stick to basics and slowly make them more difficult and explosive. The explovises are mentally very good for me. You only live once and you have nothing to lose. Make yourself proud. You can do it!

Salute!

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