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Name: Mike
Age: 43 in Sep 2012
Gender: Bloke. The hairy-backed bald sort, with some grey chest hairs.
Stats: 175 cm, 89 kg. Carrying some extraneous gut, but don't really care. Hell, I'm married, I don't even need to suck it in any more.
Location: Dunsborough, WA
Day job: Software developer. So I sit on my arse a lot.
Training Experience: Trained on and off through my 20's. Gave it away in my 30's - fatherhood and work. Been back into it for nearly 2 years, but all my bits started snapping and pinging. Could have sworn I was immortal last time I did this; apparently in your 40's you have to know what you're doing.
Reason for being here: Was trying to debug a knee problem. Read about deep squats, on this site and elsewhere. Knees now wonderful. Ego very badly injured. Currently squatting newbie weights, aiming to progress to girly weights (*) real soon now. Also discovered that I have reached 42 without knowing about a posterior chain, or even having one, apparently. Have decided I need to learn how to deadlift. Have realised the extent of my ignorance of pretty much everything related to lifting heavy, and am doing what I can to improve the situation.
Issues: Isolation - small country town. Am grateful to even have a small, underequipped local gym, but the demographic is mostly school mum/elderly/physio rehab/skinny surfer. Am desperate to turn up somebody in the area who's interested in the practice and philosophy of powerlifting.
Goal: Strength, increased mobility, esp. hips. To compete in some sort of powerlifting comp when I'm in my 80's
(*) Apologies to actual girls here, most of whom can probably outsquat me
Age: 43 in Sep 2012
Gender: Bloke. The hairy-backed bald sort, with some grey chest hairs.
Stats: 175 cm, 89 kg. Carrying some extraneous gut, but don't really care. Hell, I'm married, I don't even need to suck it in any more.
Location: Dunsborough, WA
Day job: Software developer. So I sit on my arse a lot.
Training Experience: Trained on and off through my 20's. Gave it away in my 30's - fatherhood and work. Been back into it for nearly 2 years, but all my bits started snapping and pinging. Could have sworn I was immortal last time I did this; apparently in your 40's you have to know what you're doing.
Reason for being here: Was trying to debug a knee problem. Read about deep squats, on this site and elsewhere. Knees now wonderful. Ego very badly injured. Currently squatting newbie weights, aiming to progress to girly weights (*) real soon now. Also discovered that I have reached 42 without knowing about a posterior chain, or even having one, apparently. Have decided I need to learn how to deadlift. Have realised the extent of my ignorance of pretty much everything related to lifting heavy, and am doing what I can to improve the situation.
Issues: Isolation - small country town. Am grateful to even have a small, underequipped local gym, but the demographic is mostly school mum/elderly/physio rehab/skinny surfer. Am desperate to turn up somebody in the area who's interested in the practice and philosophy of powerlifting.
Goal: Strength, increased mobility, esp. hips. To compete in some sort of powerlifting comp when I'm in my 80's
(*) Apologies to actual girls here, most of whom can probably outsquat me