Strongest dude I ever saw was this stonemason who built a stone wall at my house. Dude had to be 65 years old, weathered, wrinkled, sun-beaten, constantly smoking a cigarette, and he would pick up a giant stone with one hand and a hammer in the other and chisel it like it was a piece of Styrofoam. All day… He was Albanian.
I'm mates with a 56 year old British mason, who aside from the age and nationality fits this description perfectly. Absolutely crushing grip strength as well.
Nearly pulverised the bones in my hand.. it was like being gripped by a chain smoking cyborg
Honestly the naturally strongest person I've ever met, and he was about 5 foot 6, and wiry lean
A guy I used to work with told me a funny story about that. He was young and a had a few drinks at the bar and was being perhaps a little rowdy. An older gentleman came over and politely asked him to tone it down. He got all cocky and challenged this older guy to a fight. He figured that since he was younger and a carpenter in good shape, he’d win no problem. The older guy was fairly slight and a little shorter than him. This old guy one punched him and knocked him on his ass so fast that he didn’t even know what happened.
There's no such thing, after around the age of 40 your strength peak is reduced as time passes. What you really think about is what Pavel Tsatsoulin (the kettlebells guy) is calling "greasing the groove". It's a way of strength being developed just by frequent repeated physical work without necessarily high effort. Very amazing how it works very contrast to how most think improving strength works. For more information you can just google "greasing the groove".
You've obviously never worked with old people. I've worked assisted living facilities, acute psychiatric care, prisons. Like OP, I've experienced it personally.
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u/crevettexbenite Feb 26 '25
Ever heard of old men strength?
Shits fucking real mate. It humble you like nothing else.