Geoffrey,

I write about this too and it breaks my heart. M y BF met a few of those twenty something top guys weeks before they died. I have written a lot about this, but the folks who need to read it don't give a flying shit what a 68 yo bodybuilder has to say about it. To that, after lifting my entire adult life, never competing, I have an incredible, badass, intensely powerful body at nearly 70. Not. One .Single. Drug. EVER. I began during the Arnold years, and watched so many of my then-idols not only turn into monsters, then die trying to look healthy while committing chemical suicide.

I am an adventure athlete- there are damned few of those, and even fewer women, and of those, I don't know many who are my age. The only way I got there was work. And more work. And more work. And more work. The fact that I did this the hard way is why I have the biological age of a twenty year old in muscles, and a 40 year old in my lungs. That cannot be delivered by needle. And yet I am constantly badgered by people wanting to know my secret .

The secret is hard work, solid nutrition, no drugs, patience, no booze, no smoking. It's not hard. But you have to do the bloody work to get there.