@Durek_The_Bald Any female that religiously extreme has a high chance of being a slut and professionally religious women should be on the list. At one point early in life I worked for a religious community. God there were so many sluts there! I only banged one and she was the hottest one of the lot but there were a great number of real skanks.

Highlights were; The very fat boss's wife left him after finding him in the act of banging a girl (who my parents used to get to baby sit me), so he took on a family of women in the kitchen and used to get a blow job off the fat sister in charge with his morning coffee. He then used to install a slut in the basement flat of the staff accommodation below his house. This slut was allowed to go to the kitchen and demand any food she liked (which annoyed the hell out of the kitchen as they then couldn't always prepare the menu they had advertised). It was obvious how she paid for the perk. Room 36 was in the attic and was never used so it became the sex room for staff on duty. My line manager got called in over a supposed mouse infestation to be seduced by a gorgeous 18 year old he found waiting for him stark naked. There was a girl from New Zealand who was quite deumure. She worked on a sort of tourist visa and her behavious was not bad but just before her visa came to an end, after her time as an employee was over, she called me to her room in staff accommodation over some maintenance issue and there she was in bed with an older couple. She was totally unphased and just chatted about her problem like I had caught them drinking tea. There was the 30 year old girl who had an 80 year old man's car parked outside her room all night for days at a time. There were two sisters who invited me to have a threesome (probably would have agreed these days but back then I was too taken aback). There was the African Tyrone who argued that god didn't call it adultery if you used a condom as condoms are unnatural and he managed to talk quite a few married women into believing him. I thought him a bit of a scum bag but he was topped by another guy from Africa who had seen the light (of a visa) but he didn't share the other guy's views on rubbers. He infected a mother and daughter in that community both with HIV before dropping dead of AIDS.

So yeah I can believe it about nuns. In my experience very religious women are; 30% unfuckable and coping by being religious 60% a bit mental, probably damaged and up for whatever any other life brings 10% genuinely religious and incorruptible

@Kloi Falls spell the end. By the time they start to fall, they are so frail that they lack the recovery to heal.

Provided you don't go senile, the loss of the ability to get up from a squat is really what defines when your life as a man ends and your second childhood begins. If you can't get up you are basically fucked and have to be taken care of.

Balance is a big deal. I have a lot of older customers and everyone loses their balance at some point and then a stick is advisable on rough ground and no more ladders. Gosh I hope this comes late for me! I have spent my adult life working at height.

Whatever else you do, retain the ability to get up from a squat. Strength is the best protection and all the gym beasts should have this on their side, so long as the heart can take the load of all the extra weight they have piled on.

@SeasonedRP I understand that the older guy is effectively caught in a fork. One one hand he recovers less effectively. On the other hand he also responds less well to the training stimulus -the number of genes whose expression is altered is much reduced. There are a number of studies on this in mice and men. Here is one such article. Its worth reading a few. www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047637400001780

This means that as you age, you have to use your resources wisely. Some age earlier than others and in the end if you know your body, you should be able to pick up on when things change for you. In the late 40's there is usually the most pronounced change for men and things then carry on gradually declining until around retirement age mid 60's when you take another more pronounced dip.

Young guys only need a small stimulus to get gains and they recover fast. Its why young tradesmen who don't even do any sport or training usually look great on a construction site in summer with their tops off -work alone is enough stimulus, they can go out drinking after and still look great. When older tradesmen do not do any sport or training they look worse than office workers when they take their tops off in summer. The job is actually driving these guys down as they are not fit and can't recover from it. The stress usually makes them fat as well and they often live less long than desk jockeys.

There is no need to change things up until you see you need to. Then it becomes a case of making the stimulus felt enough yet not slamming yourself beyond your recovery ability. An extra set is said to sometimes be the answer but it will have to be lighter or less frequent or else it will push you too far into muscle damage to effectively recover in time for the next session.

I am not really a lifter, so I can't say the exact things lifters should do but the aging problem of poor recovery and poor stimulus response is the problem one needs to work around somehow.

@Chantfire Its hard to overrate the greatness of this man.

The Greek philosophers made a lot of noise about how the wise man should think and act and are still quoted much today (and deservedly so). M. Porcius, had some things to say on this too, however he also actually lived the life of a great and wise man. That sets him above all the Greek philosophers. He actually walked the walk.

The cognomen Cato itself pays tribute to his sound sense grounded in experience and character, which trumps all philosophy. Philosophy might give a man some of the attributes of a Cato but it can't actually supply the full package. Cato was not only a great paterfamilias but he was also a successful politician, esteemed moral authority, brave soldier, astute commander, a sacker of cities and builder of Rome. Privately frugal, yet a public benefactor. And yes he was also a good farm manager.

The great thing about M. Porcius is that its all one thing with him. It starts with the inner man, disciplined, wise and frugal leading a family which through him is disciplined, wise and frugal, families building themselves up with intergeneration success make up the backbone of the Roman city state which should also be disciplined, wise and frugal. The greatest success a politician can have is to destroy his people's enemies and then give his spoils to his soldiers and his people, keeping very little if anything for himself because -like Cato's own hero and role model Manius Curius Dentatus- he is secure that he already has all he needs -a healthy body, good name that men will stand up for and enough simple food from his farm to keep himself healthy.

Needless to say Cato is very unpopular these days with the liberals. This should tell men all they need to know. Men should study Cato. In the study of self improvement through good mores -customs- it really is a case of bellum se ipsum alet. He didn't mean that when he said that liberal chilling phrase but as he showed in his life, the rewards of the struggle themselves fuel the continued struggle, one needs no more.