Hey! Well, would it do any good to lie? I like to say there are 5 parameters to age, 5 ages, if you like. These are physical (I mean your health and overall fitness), mental, emotional, social (how you fit in socially, interact, how active you are, still working, etc.) and last only chronological. So i’m 74, but look and behave much younger. Which explains why I do the things I do or is it the other way around? i.e., swimming, western riding, cycling and walking my dog, Salsa, and teaching… not interested in retiring just yet! I I like your approach and have been following your plan since January. my body definitely agrees. As for the plateau thing, I’m not sure it’s true. I generally follow your advice, 3 workouts per week, on days when I’m not doing cardio, and upping weights by no more than 10%, over a few months. But now I think routine has set in at the intermediate level and I’ve got to find variations. As for gym workouts, I’m sufficiently motivated to work on my own, but who knows, maybe after the summer break.

Hey Jakob, how old are you and how long have you been training?

I’ve been following the intermediate training plan, with moderate success. Foodwise, I eat like a horse these days, but my cruel ‘mirror,mirror on the wall…’ fails to convince me that I’m putting on any muscle. So I seem to have two issues, or even three, if you take my senior status into account. These I could sum up as ‘stuck’ or permanent beginner, the age/progress issue, and where I want to or should take all this… any comments welcome, especially from seniors or do they rarefy at some point, like imploding stars? Not my view, I hasten to add LOL

“Cornflakes” is one of those words that got adapted into the German language but was mangled on the way. The German word “Korn” stands for “grain”, which as a child led me to believe cornflakes are made of grain. And the “flakes”, with the stress on the “a”, are routinely pronounced like “flex”.

And while I’m at it: Remember the Woolworth department stores? That was a name far from what the German tongue could handle. So it became “Vollwot” 😉

You know what’s one of Scooby’s favorited German words? “Lendenwirbelsäulenprobleme” – lower back problems 🙂

And man, 60 lbs! Awesome job!

Thanks for taking your time to do these videos for people. I lost 60 pounds in the last 2 years. And like most people I know, when you start to lose weight, you think you must go “on” a diet. And that you will never be able to eat anything you enjoy, until that time you can go “off” your diet.
It’s helpful for people to see that they can have good meals, and still eat healthy and lose weight. It’s really not all about starving yourself.