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A trip to the doctors office
During a routine trip to my family practitioners office the other day my well meaning doctor noted I had gained 13 pounds since I last saw him 6 months ago. Although yes, I had gained a few pounds of fat, I advised him I had been doing Starting Strength, and at 57 years old I was by far the strongest I'd ever been in my life. He told me big weight lifters always die young, and I should be doing strictly cardio and stretching. I literally could hear Rips voice ringing in my ear. After I got done chuckling at this advice, I entertained the doctor with a little tale. You see in January I was walking my dog and tripped over a section of raised concrete. I went completely ass over elbows, broke my phone, and damn near smashed my nose into the concrete. Without hesitation I popped up and much to my amazement I was completely injury free. I realized all that time in the gym doing starting strength had just saved my ass. I advised the doctor that had I been doing his silly cardio and stretching routine I would surely have F'd myself up with that fall. Also, even though my diet was far from clean, my A1C dropped to the point I'm no longer pre-diabetic. I'm a believer! Many thanks to Rip and all the SSCs dealing out the truth!
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That's what it's about. Too many in the medical industry do not get it.
Last fall, after almost 10 months without the gym, just doing bodyweight flailing in the house, I went in for my physical. The doc was all excited because I lost 20+lbs, yet was shocked when I said it was because I wasn't lifting. She's been all about the chronic cardio and pushing the meds to chase every single lab result (so much so that I had to build a spreadsheet to track trends and variability to keep her focused).
I wonder what she'd say now that I've gained back that 20lbs now that I have my own setup in the garage. But I won't ever know. I got a new doc.
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