Quote Originally Posted by TKO Performance View Post
Woah, I never said the same gains. I said can continue to gain. You are not going to gain as quickly at 40 as you did at 20. That's absurd. You can still gain though. In your 20s you might pack 50lbs a year on a major exercise, maybe more when you first start training. After that its going to get harder no matter your age. You can't just gain indefinitely, or we'd have guys benching 2 tons. In your 40s you may only be able to gain 10-20lbs on an exercise in a year, but the point is that you can still gain.

Trying to short circuit your gains by 3 months at the expense of long term health simply isn't a good idea. If the average person lives to be 80 then 3 months is all of .004% of their adult life (18-80). How is that worth the risk? You're going to get there anyway. Lacking patience is often a sign of lacking discipline.
Fair enough, just glad we could have a discussion that was civil.