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The Aging Warrior
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Добавлен 28 авг 2020
Hello and welcome to The Aging Warrior! This is a channel about general health and fitness for older people. My name is Rob Peterson, and I’m 55 years old (born 1966). My first love is gymnastics, so I make a lot of content about bodyweight strength, but I also cover a wide range of topics in the areas of general health, strength training, aging, injury prevention and recovery, and nutrition. One area of particular interest for me is elite athleticism in older people. I do extensive research in this area, using myself as a test subject.
This channel started its life as “Calisthenics Through the Ages”.
This channel started its life as “Calisthenics Through the Ages”.
My Best Stuff Post-50 #4
Calisthenics and bodyweight strength training advice for older athletes.
All the best muscle-ups that I got on video after age 50 - at least five different kinds (depending on your definitions). And a little bit of a story about how I trained for them.
Hashtags:
#OlderAthlete #FitOver50 #AgingWarrier #Calisthenics
#BodyweightStrength #BodyweightFitness #muscle-up
#slow muscle-up #fast muscle-up #kipping muscle-up
All the best muscle-ups that I got on video after age 50 - at least five different kinds (depending on your definitions). And a little bit of a story about how I trained for them.
Hashtags:
#OlderAthlete #FitOver50 #AgingWarrier #Calisthenics
#BodyweightStrength #BodyweightFitness #muscle-up
#slow muscle-up #fast muscle-up #kipping muscle-up
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My Best Stuff Post-50 #3
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Calisthenics and bodyweight strength training advice for older athletes. The best stuff on parallel bars that I ever got on video. I did much better stuff than this on p-bars - even after 50. I swear! But I wasn’t smart enough to record it… Hashtags: #OlderAthlete #FitOver50 #AgingWarrier #Calisthenics #BodyweightStrength #BodyweightFitness #p-bars #parallel bars #gymnastics
Back To Working Out After A Minor Setback
Просмотров 528Год назад
Calisthenics and bodyweight strength training advice for older athletes. Just a quick video to let people know that while I’m not exactly 100%, I’m at least back on the horse. I cover a few things about my recovery from shoulder surgery and how I’m working out right now. Contents of this video: 0:00 - Intro 1:18 - Recap of my injuries and surgery 1:42 - Rehab and recovery 2:54 - Strength traini...
My Best Stuff Post-50 #2
Просмотров 644Год назад
Calisthenics and bodyweight strength training advice for older athletes. Muscle ups and pullovers at age 50. Well… age 49.9 anyway. I like the video so I’m posting it even though I filmed it about a month before I turned 50. Hashtags: #OlderAthlete #FitOver50 #AgingWarrier #Calisthenics #BodyweightStrength #BodyweightFitness #RotatorCuff #SportsInjury #BicepsTendon #TendonRupture
My Best Stuff Post-50 #1
Просмотров 460Год назад
Calisthenics and bodyweight strength training advice for older athletes. OK, take 2. I decided that I don’t like the Shorts format, so I’m going to make these as normal (but short) videos. While I’m waiting for my shoulder to heal, I thought I would post all my best stuff from after I turned 50. This one is from October 2016 - the day after I turned 50. Hashtags: #OlderAthlete #FitOver50 #Aging...
How I Gradually Degraded And Finally Ruptured A Biceps Tendon
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Calisthenics and bodyweight strength training advice for older athletes. I recently broke one of my biceps tendons. Completely broke. As in: snapped in half. I also severely damaged one of my rotator cuff tendons. There were clear warning signs that I didn’t pay attention to in the months leading up to the incident. In this video, I describe exactly what I did that lead to this injury. Hashtags...
I Have A Broken Biceps Tendon. Why Does My Arm Still Work?
Просмотров 5192 года назад
Calisthenics and bodyweight strength training advice for older athletes. I just broke one of my biceps tendons. Completely broke. As in: snapped in half. Why does my arm still work normally? It turns out that you don’t really need the long head tendon, and most people don’t have it repaired. In this video I discuss the physiology and talk about my decision to have surgery. Hashtags: #OlderAthle...
I Snapped A Biceps Tendon - While Juggling!
Просмотров 8392 года назад
Calisthenics and bodyweight strength training advice for older athletes. I broke a biceps tendon! While juggling!!! Sounds crazy, but it’s true. The backstory involves getting older, plus years of heavy calisthenics and weight training without sufficient time for recovery. This video is a description and some video of the actual event, as well as some additional footage of a former professional...
Possibly The World's Most Grueling Sport: Tower Running
Просмотров 1,6 тыс.2 года назад
Calisthenics and bodyweight strength training advice for older athletes. What’s the most intense sport? Tower running, or competitive stair climbing is a definite contender! I recently competed in a race to the top of the US Bank Tower in Los Angeles. It was unbelievably difficult. I thought I would crush it - at least in my age category. Instead I got crushed by people a lot older than I am! C...
The Trick To Doing Pseudo Planche Pushups And Planche Leans
Просмотров 7 тыс.2 года назад
Calisthenics and bodyweight strength training advice for older athletes. It’s very important to be able to measure the amount of lean when doing pseudo planche pushups and planche leans. If you can’t measure the lean, you can’t track your progress, or even be sure you’re making any progress at all. Also, it’s easy to lean too far and injure your shoulders. This video is about the best way to me...
A Good Way To Train The Transition Of A Slow Muscle Up
Просмотров 36 тыс.2 года назад
Calisthenics and bodyweight strength training advice for older athletes. A tip on how to train a slow muscle up on a bar. Hashtags: #OlderAthlete #FitOver50 #AgingWarrier #Calisthenics #BodyweightStrength #BodyweightFitness #MuscleUp #SlowMuscleUp #SlowMuscleUpNoFalseGrip
Is Hanging Really All It's Cracked Up To Be?
Просмотров 9 тыс.2 года назад
Is Hanging Really All It's Cracked Up To Be?
How To Build More Muscle With Pushups
Просмотров 7012 года назад
How To Build More Muscle With Pushups
Weighted Squats Are Better Than Pistol Squats
Просмотров 1,3 тыс.2 года назад
Weighted Squats Are Better Than Pistol Squats
Two Surprising Observations About Long L Sits
Просмотров 1,3 тыс.2 года назад
Two Surprising Observations About Long L Sits
Listen Up Internet: I'm Not Taking Cold Showers!
Просмотров 3522 года назад
Listen Up Internet: I'm Not Taking Cold Showers!
First Attempt At A Handstand Post Shoulder Injury
Просмотров 8363 года назад
First Attempt At A Handstand Post Shoulder Injury
How To Make New Year's Resolutions That You Can Keep
Просмотров 923 года назад
How To Make New Year's Resolutions That You Can Keep
The Surprising Effectiveness of Intermittent Fasting
Просмотров 7153 года назад
The Surprising Effectiveness of Intermittent Fasting
Complete At-Home Strength Workout For Beginners
Просмотров 5533 года назад
Complete At-Home Strength Workout For Beginners
When did the meaning of the word "calisthenics" change?
Просмотров 5883 года назад
When did the meaning of the word "calisthenics" change?
My one year journey to a press handstand on rings
Просмотров 5523 года назад
My one year journey to a press handstand on rings
How I damaged my shoulder without being aware of it
Просмотров 1,2 тыс.3 года назад
How I damaged my shoulder without being aware of it
The unfortunate consequences of ignoring the warning signs
Просмотров 6533 года назад
The unfortunate consequences of ignoring the warning signs
What's the difference between my young body and my old body?
Просмотров 8103 года назад
What's the difference between my young body and my old body?
Appeal to perceived authority much?
Thx for this info man jus subbed 💪🏽
Hi Rob, I just came across this channel and found it extremely informative and useful for my aging (non-warrior) journey. Just wishing you good health in 2025!
Hello sir, from 2025. In 2025, at least here in China, it is common to make the guess that someone, who makes considered-but-silly conclusions, has ADHD. Getting a diagnosis may help you feel better, even you do not seek treatment, in that having something to blame instead of yourself.
This may be offensive, for which I apologize in advance. But I am leaving this message because I think we share same troubles in life. You see, in most vids, people emphasize on training and progression, not why and how. To this "normal people", it is acceptable to not knowing why and just work for it. What's the result? They end up being able to do it and knowing how. Sadly, for we who always want to know how before being to do it, there isn't always a good enough explanation and we do not have enough knowledge in every theory that runs the world. By now, my explanation is ADHD, but as well it may be wrong, like millions of other false-explanations I made.
Thank you for the detailed explanation. I will do my best to follow it carefully.😀😁
I hope you are doing well, Rob. I'm sure I'm not the only one who mises your videos. I hope this year you decide to come back and keep discussing calisthenics. Take care!
Math PhD here, this is exactly what I was looking for, thanks.
Your videos are great and at 66 have challenged myself to do both a slow muscle up and handstand push up in 2025. With the help of your videos I am optimistic I can do this as my pull ups, dips, pike push ups are solid however I have a question I hope you can help me with based on your injury experience: For the most part my muscles feel robust when training however when I really try to accelerate my pull ups I get signs of golfers elbow and when I crank hard on the dips I get some pain at the tricep attachment points. My questions: 1) at our advanced advanced age are there additional precautions we need to take to protect our joints and 2) How often can we safely train these techniques to reduce the risk of injury? In my enthusiasm I have been trying to train most days and this is clearly not smart. Hope you are keeping well and would love it if you start posting again
Totally agree with you. Testimonies are not science if , he thinks he has discover something (especially someting that could save so much money and pain, because rotator cuff surgeries are very frequent as are subacromial inpingement and surgery for decompression) he should try to get published. A book is a book, it's not a scientific article and it did not have any scientific value unfortunately.
To each their own, but it seems to me you went about this in the most complicated and expensive way possible. Which is fine. It’s your money and your time but for anyone who watched this video in the hopes of building their own backyard high bar, I worry they will be very discouraged. Paying for steel, powder coating, all the ancillary pieces, and a contractor is excessive for many many people. 12 foot CCA 6x6s, a bar, and some quikcrete will get you there for a few hundred dollars.
True I'm 36
Why not try to perform a stradle handstand so that the back of your legs press against the straps in the handstand position? That way the straps will prevent you from overshooting the position and landing on your back.
LOLZ finally!!!!
Prob most succinct explanation to get there in the most direct route
There is shit out there people doing, that I can tell everything is impossible until someone is finally foes it. Some years ago, people were saying you can't deadlift 500kg. After one did, many followed.
Huge props for your intellectual honesty
@@LeDogueDeBroceliande Thanks! Ivan at least claim intellectual honesty if not a great intellect 😆
Thank you sir. I grabbed 6x6s before watching and was wondering if anyone used them!
Does that mean you're going to use 6x6 wooden uprights? That should work pretty well. Just make sure you do something to prevent them from rotting at the bottom.
@ Treated but only 8ft tall. The soil is pretty wet here so im considering bolting two metal posts to the bottom and cementing around the metal like an anchor. Also allowing me to move the whole thing by just removing the bolts. Pretty much what you described for uprights being above ground without the cost of buying the part that keeps it anchored:
@ Yeah, that sounds like the right thing to do.
yeah...three videos in and i'm starting to think this guy is just one of those genetic freaks 😂 not a regular person for sureeee 🧐
Yeah, unfortunately not a genetic freak. I'm just stubborn and have a hard time accepting reality :)
i built it thanks to your video
Glad you found my video helpful! Does this mean that I no longer have the best pullup bar in the world? 😆
@@The_Aging_Warrior instead of using flanges i welded a galvanized steel bar directly between the posts and i used more concrete to cement the posts into the ground. i also welded and screwed in a pair of parallel dip bars to the side
Sounds like you need to do some toe curls for strength, it will prevent your cramps. :)
Haha I just watched a documentary on the Empire State Race run and the focus was on Wai Ching Soh, yeah he's pretty good haha
My shoulder messed up fro shoulder pressing with bad form
Motivation
Amazing video bro, greetings from Mexico! 😄
Could you please say how thick is this upright? I only found uprights with 3mm of thickness
The uprights are "4x4" steel posts - actually hollow steel tubes with 1/4" thick walls. I made a video about the construction: ruclips.net/video/mXeNRC1E19U/видео.html
@@The_Aging_Warrior thanks
A lot of "probably" and "possibly" and negative "speculation." The negative comments are very weak. The positive comments are good.
would love to see a tutorial video
Thanks - maybe I'll get back to it someday if my shoulders ever heal...
I LOVE THIS and I DO remember you next to us at the start! See you next week??
Thanks! No, unfortunately I won't make it this year. (or did it already happen?)
No need much time on pullover. Get your wife/girlfriend instead to slowly push your ass when you struggle upwards. Downwards you can (should) descend unassisted.
Well, having taught a couple of people how to do it, it seems to me that many people need a lot of guidance. Also, not everyone has a wife/girlfriend.
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Love your content!
Love your videos!! I’m an aging dancer facing rotator cuff surgery tomorrow. Similar to you I was told I can recover ‘a lot’ of my function with just physio . When I pushed they said that my tear would progressively get worse with time but as I’d be able to do ‘most’ things anyway and as I am sixty now then by the time I’d be less able I’d be 70. Well, I explained that at 70 I intended to be rock climbing and doing handstands for fun. So, like you here I am, wondering if I’ve made the right call to do the surgery when indeed the pain does seem to be resolving. I like your videos cause they really mirror my sentiments. Rock on fitness brother !
Thanks this probably saved me from rupturing my biceps tendon
Look at your comments under your video. That'll tell you all you need to know. It's ok to be wrong. Your point about shoulder injuries happening as a result of overuse is wrong. There are few people on this earth that prioritize bullet proofing the shoulders unless they sustain a shoulder injury. This proves his point to be true.
True, you are a nobody. This method has worked for many.
thanks , i'll start from the top! I'll try tomorrow ! i am 54:)
Great video! Another strategy to avoid posts rotting in the ground is to use bitumen tape the one made for roof covering that goes around the chimney and provides hydro isolation.
Personally I usually combine L sit sets with bac bridge variations sets, for muscle balance
I am a 65 year old ENT specialist and can confirm that it is very difficult to publish something if you do not work in a teaching hospital. And let's be honest, doctors are also human and have a preference for forms of treatment that guarantee a doctor's income. I currently have a shoulder problem and the first thing my colleague suggested were injections. I'm going to give that hanging a chance first...
Found a perfect video made my day.. I want to ask that i have galvanized pipe 3*6 cm can i use it for swing and pullups and muscleups?
@@honeysonaiya3836 I don’t know. I’m not sure I would trust pipe to swing on.
@@The_Aging_Warrior here after searching alot I got ms pipe 4*4 inch 3mm thickness aaprox wieght 65 kg (143 lb)per pipe with 6 meter length Will it work?
great tutorial ,like all your video's
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I want one
I can do pull over, I will try your advice. Thank you 🙏
Fantastic video much respect, I'm 61 soon and my goal is a slow muscle up, i can do 10 strong dead hang pull-ups with 10kg so i think i have the strength just need to perfect the technique, thanks for the brilliant insight I'm stoked for the next gym day. 😊
What was the intended point of your smug 'review' of a book that has helped 1000's to recover shoulder ROM (Range of Motion), functional mobility & active strength??? You may want to look into how the pharma-profit-based medical system & its "scientific research" functions & do a review of that. See how long it lasts on youtube before being banned -- IF it even can be posted for any length of time.
Thank you for sharing your experiences:)
Suffering for over a year from shoulder pain. Been hanging for a week - 10-12 times a day for 20-30 seconds. I am already experiencing significantly less pain and I have a lot more range of motion.
Just tore my bicep in the most bizarre way. was reaching for something and it tore. I do landscaping and crook my arm a lot. Lots of paddling in the ocean. The fact it happened while you were juggling just reinforced what it you said and what my friends said: You're getting older. I'm 37. I still train like I'm 27, and introduced a lot of new things that really added up in the end.
Wow, that's surprising. Sorry to hear about your torn bicep. I guess overtraining and getting older don't mix.
Hi Coach, just wanted to thank you for all the training you share. I have been following you for a year and have finally got my free standing hand stand around my 50th birthday. So happy Subodh
Nice - congratulations on the handstand!