{"id":12946,"date":"2024-11-04T09:15:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T13:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/?p=12946"},"modified":"2024-11-04T09:29:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T13:29:37","slug":"building-muscle-in-your-50s-its-never-too-old-to-start-bodybuilding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/building-muscle-in-your-50s-its-never-too-old-to-start-bodybuilding\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Muscle In Your 50&#8217;s &#8211; It&#8217;s Never Too Old To Start Bodybuilding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\ud83c\udfc6 I&#8217;d like to give a Huge Congrats to Mike Brown who competed in his very first bodybuilding competition on Saturday at age 61 \ud83d\udcaa <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He won the Novice Lightweight Class and placed 2nd in the Master&#8217;s 50+ and 60+ Divisions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/muscle-after-40\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.leehayward.com\/2024-pics\/Mike-Brown-Bodybuilding.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Back in 2021 Mike reached out to me and said that he&#8217;d like some help to get in shape and compete in a bodybuilding competition someday&#8230; Well that goal finally became a reality on Saturday November 2nd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike is a prime example that it is possible to get in your best shape in your 60&#8217;s when you follow a proven system, trust the process, and refuse to quit \ud83d\udc4f \ud83d\udc4f \ud83d\udc4f <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to having him back on the Total Fitness Bodybuilding Podcast again to share his physique transformation and bodybuilding competition journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to see the program Mike followed to achieve his physique transformation, you can download a copy of the Muscle After 40 Blueprint PDF below&#8230;<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/muscle-after-40\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Click Here To Download The Muscle After 40 Blueprint PDF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Brown is a prime example that it is possible to get in your best shape in your 50&#8217;s and beyond when you follow a proven system, trust the process, and refuse to quit. He started working out at age 56 and after just 4 years of training he competed on stage in his very first bodybuilding competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[47,235,117,51,89,68],"class_list":["post-12946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bodybuilding-competition","tag-bodybuilding","tag-bodybuilding-competition","tag-bodybuilding-diet","tag-build-muscle","tag-building-muscle","tag-fat-loss-diet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p36tGh-3mO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12946"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12952,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12946\/revisions\/12952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}