Page 5 - Old Man, Young Muscle - Ebook by Steve Holman :: Flip It & Read It

The írst was the pandemic. I had no idea gyms would close for so long. It was an

unwelcome surprise, as my home gym was pathetic.

How the hell was I going to build muscle with

moderate-weight dumbbells and a bench?

The max I could use was 50 pounds in each hand,
and not a barbell or squat rack in sight.

My motivation had already been bottoming out due
to boredom at my commercial gym and stagnant
results from my hour-plus workouts.

While I used to be proud to peel oì my shirt,
suddenly I was embarrassed. And with gyms

closed, I had a bad feeling that everything would
only get worse…

It did. I started missing workouts and sunk even
further into looking like a cranky, non-training old

man.

I was about to give up and start wearing socks with
the pandemic hit and gyms closed, I was
sandals, but then it hit me: I had to take this as a
ing pathetic physique-wise. I had to do
mething, and my sparse home gym was slap-in-the-face challenge…
only option.
"Come on, man. You've got decades of training
experience. Ditch the old-codger nosedive and at

least prove you can build a decent physique with limited equipment."

Then a second key event occurred that set my motivation on íre:

I was reacquainted with former Mr. America Doug Brignole...

Mr. America and the Ultimate

Muscle-Building Exercises

I interviewed Doug back when I was the editor at Iron Man, and his training ideas
did not sit well with the bodybuilding establishment.

With his biomechanics background, he said things like overhead presses were
crap for shoulder development, downright dangerous in fact due to joint

impingement.