I am an inch shorter 5' 10" a few pounds heaver at around 170 lbs. Waist is 32-33" I haven't measured my chest lately, but I would guess around 40"

I had myself up to doing one hour workouts on the treadmill of about 6 miles, until my knees decided they didn't like the pounding and i had to take a couple of months off from running. I have since started running at an even slower speed, barely even jogging to tell the truth at between 4.5-5mph, but I do it on an 5%+ incline so I am still able to do a workout in the 7-800 calorie range. I am trying to increase the incline until I can get back up to a 1,000 calorie workout, but at my "advanced age" of 56, it is becoming more and more of a challenge to stay in anything resembling decent shape. Of course "round" is a shape,just not the shape I would choose for myself.

I have no delusions that I will ever get back into what I would consider "good shape" but as long as I can date twenty somethings without looking like we are too out of place, i can live with it. I will further confess that it gets harder to do every year. I used to be able to whip myself into shape in a couple of weeks and still be in decent shape after taking several months off from the gym. Now it takes me months to get into shape and it seems like even a couple of weeks away from the gym feels like starting all over again.

I guess getting old sucks, but it does beat the alternative. lol

I think he too was almost 6' and was not only "happy" to be that thin, but was trying to get others to emulate him by walking 6-8 miles a day, or what ever the fuck he was doing for exercise.

Personally I feel a bit skinny at 5' 10" and 170, I would much prefer to gain another 10 pounds or so, but only if it were not concentrated around my gut. and somehow I don't see that in the cards for me, anymore than I see myself doing sub six minute miles again anytime soon.

For me I try to balance my drinking like fish, eating like a pig and fucking like a rabbit, and not becoming  a huge blob of fat while indulging all of my vices.

I may start splitting time on the bike for my cardio work to give my knees a break, and I never had a bit of problems with my knees in my youth. Another option is to walk using  a very steep incline over 10%, I believe that 4 mph at a 15% incline will burn about 1,000 calories an hour, similar to running over seven miles an hour on level ground, with a lot less stress on your knees.

but with my FWB who is about to turn 26 I know for a fact we don't look out of place, when she was nineteen and we would check into a hotel together I would get those "looks" like I was robbing the cradle. People now assume we are married, waiters, desk clerks, other couples we meet at the bar all act like we are a married couple.

Maybe part of it is, I don't feel out of place with younger women, so I don't look out of place.

Pal to pal, I don't really give a fuck what you think.

A previous thread got me to wondering just how out of shape the guys who say they're out of shape really are. So, let's find out.

I have been the same way most of my life, except it was only the last ten years or so that I have to worry about my gut.

I used to try my  hardest to gain weight and just like you, I would get stronger, but not any bigger. I am now at probably one of the healthiest weights i have been at my entire life. I would love to gain another ten pounds, (of muscle of course) but like you, I just don't see it happening.

It's funny people who would never dream of calling a fat person fat, have zero qualms about calling an underweight person skinny.

Come to think of it, I don't think i even broke the 150 mark until I was well over thirty. I spent most of my twenties weighing around 145, as a teenager I was able to fight as a 5' 10' featherweight, I guess those days are gone forever. lol

Pump some iron and eat a sandwich will ya?

ot out of shape at all. No gym. I walk my dog a lot.

After hurting my back, along with emotional disasters the past two years….I've gotten to the heaviest I've ever been.  I'm 6'2" 275lbs.  It's so embarrassing.  Most people don't think I'm near that heavy when I tell them, I carry it well etc.  But I KNOW I'm way overweight.  I'm around a 40" waist now.  No idea chest etc.  

6' 2", about 200 lbs, 33" waist, 45" chest. Resting heart rate = 48. Run 20-30 miles per week, 5 days strength training and swim or elliptical twice a week on running off days. Pretty much in the best shape of my life, thanks in no small part to this particular pastime and my desire to get the most of it.

...I'm 6'4". 195lbs. 38" waist 44/45" chest. Work out regularly at the gym. Knees are becoming a problem. I am in the process of changing my whole workout routine to accommodate knees and lower back disc problem.

5'9" 240 lbs 44 waist.  Heavy but not blob material.

Dude... At 5'10" 170 and 56yo, I guarantee that you look out of place dating twenty-somethings.

I can't gain any mass from eating and working out. I get stronger, but any "mass" just goes to my gut. Give it another ten years and you'll see what I mean.

Entering this hobby and spending time with beautiful ladies helped motivate me to get my act together (after several years of little exercise).  Completed several triathlons in the last couple years

Good for you for making that kind of commitment, I've been thinking about getting into triathlons but the time required is a killer.

I used to do marathons, but can't handle that amount of running anymore.  Triathlon training is so much more enjoyable to me because you get to mix things up.  You should look into it - start with a short Sprint Triathlon.

Since I'm on my bicycle or at the gym doing light lifting 6 days a week my body looks better than most guys my age, and better than some 20 years younger.

a small amount at a time, Any excess turns into fat to be stored as fat asap. For me at 122 my normal weight when i do alot of body building training and diet.

Pal to pal, I'm totally grabbing your dick right now

I could use some muscle tone. but I ain't trying to be no bodybuilder.

...doesn't really tell you how fit you are.  Men's Health came up with 10 standards to gauge your fitness. The only gripe I have is it's not age adjusted. I can still do over half of these, but being in my late 50's can't do what I could in my 20's and 30's. But the important thing is I can still kick my son and nephews asses. LOL.  

But it's a start. After listening to so many providers talk about the fat slobs they deal with, I thought it might be interesting to see how many fit that characterization. Problem is, anyone who does is not going to chime in.

2 new hips in 4 years. i was 6', 188 and now I'm 6', 210. 56 YO...effing golden years!

...slow walk on the treadmill. I'm using a recumbent bicycle more now for knees and back. I'll need to change my resistance work too.

and like others, most motivation is from entering hobby. It not only gave me motivation to get in shape in order to enjoy more physical activity of an amorous kind, but motivation to simply live longer.
53 yo
5'8"
150 lbs
8-10 dead-hang strict pullups
Gym 5-7 times a week when injury free, including an occasional gym class with my much younger ATF (always kicks my ass). She has been an incredible motivator.
December of 2013, I weighed 197 and could not do a single pullup.

At 44 6' 190lbs. One advantage to working for a living is that in the past I really didn't have to workout after work. The problem with that is that now that I mostly supervise I find that while I have been able to maintain my weight, rather than being 190lbs of muscle I am 190lbs of some muscle and more fat than I am happy with.

...good for tone, firmness, definition, and improves bone density.

...as guys do, trying to show off for the ladies. The thing is...are any of us being truthful?

All my life I tried eating different ways, different foods, etc. It never made a difference, except for beer. That added to my middle.

I almost always tell the truth. No percentage in lying, and I don't have to remember what I said.  Besides, who would lie about being a skinny 64-year-old?

and free weights, tone without building too much muscle, thanks for the tip will add to my regimen.

a few years ago--down from 240 to the 203 with a 36" waist down from 40".  I have much more stamina BCD.

height for me personally (if I had the choice), but all heights and sizes are sexy if they know how to work it

gravity put them there. let  'em stay where they are.

Posted By: 89Springer

A previous thread got me to wondering just how out of shape the guys who say they're out of shape really are. So, let's find out.  
   
 I'm 5'11', 158 pounds. Waist is now 34" (it was 32" two years ago when I was hitting the weights daily at the gym). Chest is just 38" or 39". I do 3 to 5 miles non-stop every night on the treadmill, doing 4 mph with 2 minute bursts of 5 mph every ten minutes.  
   
 Anyone else want to spill his guts?

they're legit for sure, and I can do most of them, but I've always looked at resting heart rate as a better gauge of overall fitness than any particular feat of strength. Anything in the 50s or lower and you're in pretty damn good shape.

To be at 240-250 lbs  
I'm 6'3" barefoot  
size 36 or 38  
280 lbs

After I became a dad I let my weight creep up until I got to 257 at my heaviest. I felt like shit all the time, both physically and mentally. Took awhile but I dropped over 60 lbs, and the only weight I gain now is muscle. Keep at it, it will happen and you'll look great, feel great, and fuck your brains out. GOOD LUCK!!

Then again, I was just bitching to a lady that I have gained 10 pounds in the last year and I am disturbed by it.   I am 5'9", 175 pounds and I have a 33" waist and a 41" chest.    It is not so much the looks part of it that bothers me, it is the fact that all my really good pants don't fit.   At this point, my trim suits remind me of sausage casings.    Glad to see that so many of you have discipline, I am going to try to start working out again. Uggh!

You'll be singing a different tune if surprise, surprise, you end up living another 40 years, as unlikely as it may now seem to you. lol

Every sixty year old here was once 20 years old and bulletproof. Myself included,

Still a 30-32. I'll die of a heart attack skinny, and handsome.

given advancements in the medical arts and pharmaceuticals it's more likely you'll just have a long, shitty back nine. You're Pfizer's wet dream: healthy, bad. dead, bad. Chronically ill? Priceless.

Take that Pfizer!

I also drank anywhere from eight to eighteen beers a day. At all-you-can-eat restaurants, I'd make the waitresses work their tails off. I once ate thirteen plates of fish at an IHOP. It was payback because they wouldn't give me a second helping of coleslaw.

Once upon a time, it didn't matter what I ate or drank, until recently I too drank 10-15 beers on an average day, and then went "drinking" in the evening. lol That and an appetite that would have me eating a dozen lobsters at a single sitting, or an entire sack of crawfish all by myself (but not in a single sitting. lol) Yes, I should have weighed 400 lbs with all the calories I consumed.

It was just recently that I had to swear off the beer. Or at least cut down to less that a six pack a month. (Thank God for vodka, and vino. lol) When you are our size even an extra 5-10 pounds around the middle gives you that "pregnant" look, So I swore off the beer a year or so ago and lost two belt loops off my waist. It was either that or spend four hours a day in the gym trying to burn off those empty calories.

Sure, the john 'population' is probably similar to the 'regular' population. But...I bet there are more good looking, in shape types than the average person thinks. Most (I said most) guys on this board are educated, have great paying jobs (or are just plain loaded) and those kinds of people generally are self motivated people who also care about their health. I doubt the majority of TER members are fat asses barely skimping by to make ends meet.  

back your first paragraph up. There are more very attractive, fit, very sexy, sensual men here than most think. From the ladies perspective, there's nothing like being surprised when you see "him" for the first time. Now mind you, attraction means something different to all of us I'd like to think. I'd also like to think it keeps alot of ladies here playing in this world. Why wouldn't it? I know it keeps me here vs dating in that "other" world. No thank you LOL.  

Good for you guys to get some connection there.
Please do not use our discussion as a reason.
It cheapens your connection...
Thank you. Have a nice day.😈

Aldo abs!

Damn that 300lb bench press is a bitch.

strictly you define it.  when you see a woman in public who is not overweight is she fit? does it mean you're attracted to her?

Weirdest and least comprehensible post I've ever had directed my way.

I'll try to make my point differently.

I'm 6' 158. I was 175 last March, but I felt miserable and started running in the park. Couldn't run a mile the first run, now I'm running anywhere from 5-12 miles per run. Very motivated to run a half marathon this spring in Pittsburgh. Also lift 3 times a week, and do some kickboxing from time to time as well.

... especially considering my age (well into AARP territory).