Maxx's Muscle Mass Method

9Jun15 -

     It appears I have deleted or lost all of the past year or so of this post.

      Shit happens for a reason.  Can't justify this one.

        185 people were readers and I'm certain they got some info about maintaining muscle mass into the advanced age when muscle mass is incrementally diminishing.

     Calorie pounding is important to feed any attempt to add muscle mass.

I have simplified this count in the type of food and the minimum minutes of preparation.

    By now, you know, my drug of choice is marijuana.  You my assume that I am high on pot   A lot.

     I may do a day by day on this post but seeing as how it is so easy to lose, I may not bother.

I'll find another way to express my writing jones, although I admit to being really enthused about Maxx's Muscle Mass Method.  I know it will work for anyone.

5Jul15 -

      As I review the past year of this post M4, there has been a major evolution since that beginning in Jul 14.  So much so, that I'll condense it to where bare minimums apply to food preparation time.  When pounding calories, the most time should be spent consuming the food, not getting it ready to eat.
     I don't bake any whole wheat bread in the traditional way; whole wheat flour, yeast, oil, water, double rise, three loaves at a time.  Instead, I mix the flour, salt, oatmeal, an egg and water enough to stir to a batter consistency, then spoon it into a cup and microwave for 3,2.1.  Three minutes and twenty-one seconds.
     Addenda include peanut butter, chicken, fish, beans, broccoli, or whatever you like.   The  mere presence of oil inside the cup allows the loaf to be dumped out easily.  Once cooled it may be hand carried and eaten.       My first mix usually results in three cups of finished product.
     Then I do one with apple, raisins, walnuts, powdered milk.  Sometimes a sprinkle of sugar.  Sometimes with cocoa powder.  Cinnamon.
     Garlic, onion, carrot, rosemaryjane, curry, turmeric, other herbs and spices, beans and greens is the final fixings of the day.
     I previously used a crock pot to cook my beans.  The quantity was such that they began breaking down, even with refrigeration, before I used them up.  Now, I do a small quantity in a lidded stove top pan over high boil and close watch.  Beans boil over or boil dry in a short unwatched span of time.  So stay with them and keep adjusting the flame to where they don't steam the lid to rattle, but are quick steam cooking the hard beans. Once at that level you can come back to them, later, and check for softness.  There may be enough beans (or peas) for a couple or three skillet fulls, as opposed to the crock amount which lasted into weeks, so they are fresher.

     60-pounds of weight on a bar with vertical grip and room outside the iron for a horizontal grip.
Begin with 10-reps (which will apply throughout) of vertical grip squats. To a level thigh. Filling lungs on the way down and bursting the air out on the rise up. I elevate heels with a 2X4.
    Let the weight drop to arm's length and bend over, straight backed. Engage the lower back muscles by pulling the weight up to gut level and then allowing it to pull you closer to the floor until it is resting there just prior to the 10th pull up. then straighten up, move to a seated position and press the weight.  Move back to floor and curl the weight.  Change grip to horizontal and press to behind the neck, then do ten more squats.
     Move from there back to seated and press the weight.  Then move to floor, remove weight to front grip and curl the weight.   Then back to seat for front press.   Put the weight down and do 100 crunches, 10 full straight sit ups and 10 pushups.
      That's one set.  I do three.  A loosen one, warmup one and builder.

There's a year of posting condensed to the core.  I assume some reader interest lies here.  Actually, I felt obligated when I saw numbers added after it was deleted.

6Aug15 -

     I expected to still be running at age seventy-seven and the nine-miles I do every other day (all year long) is pain free, except for those little stabs in a knee or a foot.  These are genes attempting to slow an older body to stop exercising and sit down.  Sometimes I bag the run on the days I mow my lawn and the neighbors. 
     Never considered I'd be lifting weights at this age, but I put more emphasis on doing the three sets every other day.  Twenty minutes for each set, so it's only an hour.  I tell you it adds up over the years and the results will show in musculature.  Loosen up, warm up, build up.