79 year old body builder teaches how to have high testosterone/muscle for life

OzzyBonHalen 2017-08-03 12:55:09 UTC #1

What you can learn from one of America’s greatest fitness visionaries, who’s 79 years old and still rocks a solid six-pack

In his 20s and 30s Bass became a world-class Olympic lifter, at his peak able to snatch 245 pounds. In his 30s he started bodybuilding, whittling himself to a preposterous 2.4 percent body fat, as measured at the former Lovelace Foundation for Medical Education and Research in Albuquerque. He’s a walking anatomy chart who won Most Muscular Man at the Past-40 Mr. U.S.A. contest. That physique has remained virtually unaltered into his 70s, as documented in his numerous portraits over the years, clad in a banana hammock, clenched in classic poses, his abs resembling a giant tortoiseshell, vasculature crackling across his arms and legs like lightning.

Bass’s astonishing vigor has attracted more than a little scientific scrutiny. Every 18 months he hustles off to the Cooper Institute—the renowned Dallas-based clinic founded by Kenneth Cooper, the author of Aerobics and the guy often credited with launching America’s running craze in the 1970s—where he undergoes a battery of health and fitness tests.

“Everyone assumes your VO2 max declines with age, that it’s unavoidable,” Bass says. “But mine has barely dropped since my 30s.” Doctors routinely screen his blood to assess his ratio of high-density lipoproteins (HDL, or good cholesterol) to low-density lipoproteins (LDL, bad cholesterol), a key factor in heart health. The lower the number, the better. “A score of 4 is considered excellent. Mine is 2,” Bass says. “Every time I get tested at some clinic or another, I defy the numbers,” he adds, pausing at a high point on the hike to savor the view of the Rio Grande Valley State Park. “My testosterone level has stayed flat. I attribute that to my diet and exercise, and pushing myself to keep my fast-twitch fibers alive and well.”

teh_painkiller 2017-08-03 14:07:35 UTC #2

It's not as if he's going to say "I take exogenous hormones to keep myself in shape".

Even if he is natural, which he isn't, he'd be in the genetic 0.001% which rules most people out.

If you wanna be healthy, lift and exercise. If you wanna be jakked, you'll have to get on the gear.

40 years since pumping iron and people still expect to get jakked from milk and eggs. The gullibility is fucking astounding.

Someone 2017-08-03 14:49:35 UTC #3

I think he may be on creatine..

RealHumanBeing 2017-08-03 14:54:12 UTC #4

That stuff actually works?

Someone 2017-08-03 14:56:35 UTC #5

Jup, 12 week creatine cycle:

hrafn88 2017-08-03 18:34:34 UTC #6

Dat dere cell-tech.

Ned_Diggers 2017-08-03 20:22:17 UTC #7

Gear. Can't blame him, I'm looking forward to abusing a TRT script someday when I'm old and shut down. Lying about it, though, is douchey. We expect better from our elders.

CaptainMorgan 2017-08-03 20:24:42 UTC #8

Fuck, you beat me to it. Therefore... Dat dere viagra-tech.

Is there anyone out there apart from Rich Piana that isn't a Billy bullshitter, despite the fact he has products to shill? Even Mike O'Hearn is still pulling the 'all natty' gimmick.