What age do you ditch CrossFit and bodybuilding for just some good stretching?

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I ain't nevah gonna stop!

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I don't crossfit, but this. As long as I can do it, I'm doing it.

Also, physical activity is linked positively to longevity, so what are you talking about?

Weightlifing keeps bones strong.

Don’t be a bitch, have some agency. If you’re doing EMOM deadlifts, for instance, and you’re not ready, don’t do that round. Why is this hard?

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What age do you ditch CrossFit

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Hopefully never. Why would you? Eventually, I guess, you could start scaling the weight back in the strength portion or WOD. I don't expect to do the weight I do now when I'm 60, but I still intend on being in CrossFit.

Why not strength train with the cardio aspect mixed in? It's the best of both worlds, if you're trying to stay fit with good muscle tone.

Do you mean stop competing in bodybuilding or stop strength training? Never stop strength training.

if you are just talking about lifting weights aka strength training....there is nothing better for longevity. there is zero research that shows stretching lowers all cause mortality

where do these people come from?

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Yes, but they kind of go hand in hand. If you don’t have the mobility to lift or really struggle with ROM you are going to struggle to strength train. Mobility also helps with balance which causes a lot of injuries with older folks

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oh i agree and I like things like yoga and other type of things like that, especially crawls for mobility

but the OP makes it sound like we should give up weights all together and get up and just do some "good stretching" lol

im a big fan of supple leopard style mobility and I absolutely love different versions of crawls and lots of band work. Im not huge on static stretching unless its similar to extreme stretching where you are doing hangs or other extremely extremely deep stretching

Hope life has been treating you well along with others on the board

this damn injury has me appreciating any type of activity. hopefully out the boot by the weekend and can get back after it.

Good thinking. The handful of people Ive known who do crossfit have all injured themselves at one time. Getting injured as you age is tough on recovery.

Movement, some strength training with cardio and proper nutrition. Good to go.

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mental and physical health

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Mental health is why bringing your workouts in writing, not in an app, is key. Your rage meter doesn't drain as you watch the second hand on the clock on the wall in between sets, rather than look at your most recent like on IG, or scroll around your app trying to figure out what your next weight is, etc. Rage only builds as people pull weights that you carefully pre-staged on your rack, or walk across your deadlift platform as you're in the middle of a sub 90 second rest period.

Harness the rage. The fing dude supersetting between four or five stations managed to do three sets of deadlifts in 45m this morning, while wasting a platform. Oh, I'll be thinking about you on Friday when I DL again.

If the rage doesn't come out in the gym, I'm going to say something really, really, shitty when a dude asks me the same question three times on a 30m conference call.

But it's healthy. I swear.

Never?

I scale when necessary.