An elderly male bodybuilding.

The situation in the men's bodybuilding age a little, unlike thereof in women's bodybuilding. Interest, but rather a curiosity to people over the age of 40 years engaged in bodybuilding competitions have always taken a strange character. People have always been interested in the question of why men aged choose this type of sport, and not, say golf or bowling?

Gradually, with age there are processes to reduce physical strength and reduce muscle mass. Quite simply, the older a man is, the less in size and in the number of its muscle fibers, and therefore less power. This is facilitated by lowering testosterone levels with age. However, heavy exercise and weight lifting in particular are able to slow down the destruction of muscle tissue. However, the fact that men are fighting for their health and appearance even with the approach of old age does not change the attitude of the society towards older athletes.

But the most interesting thing is that most negative comments by athletes aged emanate directly from their peers. While people try grow young again both hands on the old passion, they strongly support and cheer on the people who dared such a bold move. To explain it very simply, the reason is banal envy of their peers simply do not like a strong and still looking young athletes of the same age.