a quick question

[shengoikee]

what do you suppose is a common age for a bodybuilder or powerlifter to hit their physical "peak"?

i'm also currently googling

[thereid]

i'm also currently googlingplus comme branling?

[chicanerous]

30

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[shengoikee]

30 seems commonishish

oh well this is good news i guess

[compleks]

Yes, it's all down hill from there.

[receive]

Assuming you start training in your teens, I'd agree.

http://powerandbulk.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=27874&sid=c971653dbfd0415fa6466665af7421ea is a thread full of 40 year olds who are feeling their age and trying to pretend they have another 20 years of progress left.

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Your potential for progress probably starts to decline pretty much in your late teens or early 20's. After that its just the [time spent training] factor that keeps you improving, until the two curves cross and you start to deteriorate.

[Steve]

It's actually around mid 20s but since our society is soft and everyone starts training in high school it's about 30-35.

[shengoikee]

It's actually around mid 20s but since our society is soft and everyone starts training in high school it's about 30-35.

this is depressing haha

[Karlnold]

what do you suppose is a common age for a bodybuilder or powerlifter to hit their physical "peak"?

i'm also currently googling

Probably around the age of 30(perhaps about 35), I belive you can build a larger amount of "mass" at a higher age, but honestly I think you're more likely to reach your physical(natural bodyweight versus amount of lifting power) peak at a lower age.

I don't know. I'm drunk. In the military I was told I'd get useless after the age of 26, which seems bizarre. Eeh.

[Karlnold]

What?

[shengoikee]

the military lied to you! haha

drunk and only one spelling mistake. well done.

[Karlnold]

"belive"... incredible. I wonder if I'd have sorted out that one sober? Probably not. "I believe in love".

[Karlnold]

I don't ofc.

[Karlnold]

Perhaps we'd make friends if we'd meet in real life, Dave? If I'd be drunk and on drugs?

Edit: Probably not.

[shengoikee]

why not?! :agony:

ofc we would

[Steve]

I believe in love, it's all we got
Love hath no boundaries, no borders to cross
War makes money, Kansas sleeps
Curled up in my fatherland this means nothing to me

[Rahf]

30-35.

Bodybuilders keep going on about "muscle-maturity". What it is, I don't know because I never bothered to look into it further.

[Gusch]

Powerlifters I asked told me that the peak in their sport is around 30-39.
They're training for pure strength though, so it probably can't be directly translated to mass gains etc.