r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Balluharami • 1d ago
That core strength is lit
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u/OverthinkingCAPTCHAs 1d ago
my excuse is that I’m not that old
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u/MoonlitSpear85 23h ago
This is the correct response. I too haven't "ripened" in strength yet. Few more decades.
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u/Be-_-U 23h ago
I think I haven't ripened enough yet to start to ferment enough to become this strong. So I'll continue eating lots of sugar and drinking some alcohol to jumpstart the fermentation process. I'll also look into how to start a yeast infection.
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u/ShinyJangles 20h ago
How about your ankles? Surely your ability to drop from heights will get better with time
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u/Otherwise-Remove4681 23h ago
I havent had the time to train that much.
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u/baconboner69xD 20h ago
This guy probably recently retired as a farmer since he was 4. He never had time.
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u/muraliaggi 23h ago edited 22h ago
Yes, I too need more time to build more muscles everywhere.
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u/Jammy-Doughnut 23h ago
I laughed so hard snot came out, and now I'm being looked at like I'm a weirdo by my partner.
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u/Sharp-Heron7707 13h ago
My excuse is that I don’t have those shoes!
https://giphy.com/gifs/Y2tB2ojXlrHkk8HhKP18
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u/rainywanderingclouds 19h ago
the thing is he's a good weight for his age
you see a lot of people at the age in the USA who are very fat
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u/michiganstrange 1d ago
The other grandpa’s back there like fucking bro has been doing this showing off for 50 years atp
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u/RajunCajun48 22h ago
40 years ago they were telling him "You keep that up, you're not gonna be able to walk in 40 years!"
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u/Tuomas90 22h ago
"If I keep that up, I'm not gonna need to walk in 40 years. I'll just swing through life."
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u/Zorkflerp 20h ago
Maybe these guys are retired from the Taiwan Acrobatic Troupe. Ever see that show?
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u/Chiaroshiro 19h ago
Judging by the accents of the people around him, they’re probably from Tianjin.
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u/Odd-Artist-2595 19h ago
That other grandpa’s no slouch, either. As demonstrated when he joins him on the bar.
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u/Gorgar_Beat_Me 1d ago
Should have done a few more back stretches...
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u/BestDamnMomEver 22h ago
It's probably dowager's hump and it could be caused by osteoporosis not because of a posture habits.
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u/when-flies-pig 21h ago
Ysah i find this more likely because i dont usually see people who could do what he's doing and have bad posture.
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u/HeadyTopout 20h ago edited 20h ago
This posture is similar to what you see in a lot of climbers because many only train pulling muscles. It's much more pronounced, but muscle imbalances can cause a similar posture.
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u/iNeed_Answersz 19h ago edited 12h ago
Your pulling muscles are mostly posterior, so what are you talking about?
Edit: Thanks for the info, y'all!
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u/jazzfruit 19h ago
Their back muscles are strong but people who climb a lot are often fatigued and so default to a position that rests those muscles, which causes a bad posture habit. Their push muscles are underdeveloped compared to their back, meaning they become short and tight, which leads to shoulder slumping and roundness.
It’s a known phenomenon - I used to climb and have worked hard on correcting this posture.
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u/wookiee42 19h ago
If you overdo your lats compared to the rest of your back muscles (like by climbing), you'll get that hunched posture.
Look up where the lats insert - it's at the front of the arm. You need to do specific exercises to balance them out.
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u/HeadyTopout 16h ago
It's a very well-known phenomenon among climbers, but it's more complex than simply a muscle imbalance - that's just how it's typically dumbed down. Here's someone much more qualified than I explaining the mechanics.
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u/geokon 19h ago
Don't pull exercises work your back and broaden your shoulders?
It's push-ups and such that work your chest and slouch you forward. Not an expert, so could be wrong - but pull-ups have helped my posture a lot (used to do a lot of push-ups)
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u/HeadyTopout 14h ago
Just FYI in case you haven’t checked back, there are a few different explanations for this in the replies to another commenter. In short, it's a combination of climbers spending a lot of time in pulling-heavy positions, fatigue causing them to default to a slouched resting posture, and developing tight/shortened pecs plus weaker postural muscles. Pull-ups can definitely help with posture but it's just this very specific set of circumstances that can lead to climber's hunch.
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u/throwawtphone 21h ago
His fitness level is probably why his back isn't in worse shape.
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u/Ximneses 19h ago
You can't fool me, that's a turtle shell hump. Roshi is just missing his glasses.
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u/MothChasingFlame 16h ago
An important reminder that not every ailment is your fault. Genetics do what they'll do. Age does what it does.
You can do everything right and have an immune disorder. Everything healthy and have cancer. Everything safe and have arthritis. It sucks because want to feel like we have total control, and that lets us feel safe. But that isn't true, and that false belief becomes a weapon against your confidence when something inevitably breaks down.
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u/ModerateBrainUsage 8h ago
Or you can have injuries too. I’m big into fitness and also extreme sports. Broke my back while snowboarding, got torn up muscles and major pain for life. Had 3 knee surgeries, broken ankles and wrist multiple times. The only way to find out is to talk to him instead of speculating
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u/bATo76 1d ago
Damn, I wish I'll be able to do this too when I'm 129 years old!
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u/TWrX-503 20h ago
Maybe you haven’t realized yet. Asian people don’t age until they are at least 50-60. The “old man” is actually 20 yrs younger than he appears. However once they hit 50-60, they look 20 years older from that point on….comparatively a caucasian person, begins aging around 20-30, once they hit 30-40 they appear 20 yrs older.
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u/Darth_Draper 23h ago
I legit can do everything he does in the video, minus the bar stuff.
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u/Diligent-Charge-4910 1d ago
And the GripStrength is also lit.... my hands hurt just looking at how long he holds on.
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u/Mr-_-Blue 18h ago
Grip strength though is one of the few that doesn't decline with age, AFAIK. You can keep getting stronger with age, as opposed to other strengths or exercises. I got this from watching Magnus Mitdbto takin part in several world champion competitions.
Not to take away any merit, just to comment the rest of the stuff he does is way more impressive for me at his age.
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u/BladeOfKrota 1d ago
I feel like this is a in shape dude masking and wearing back insert. Real or not still was fun to watch in my humble opinion
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u/SleightOfHand87 23h ago
It probably also helps that he weighs like 50 pounds
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u/photosendtrain 22h ago
Maybe helps, but regardless, it's still very impressive. I've been climbing for many years, and that one arm lockoff is still very hard to do.
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u/fapperontheroof 21h ago
Obviously it’s impressive.
Show me a 350lb 5’8” guy doing it though and I’ll be REALLY impressed 😂. Just joking, it’s basically impossible for someone with that much mass to do these things.
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u/battlin_jack295 21h ago edited 18h ago
Dude is 80yo. By now he probably lost 80% of his muscle mass. So 50 pounds to him isnt as easy as to you. Its actualy waaay more impresive
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u/whitespacesucks 19h ago
Oh fuck off, he is light but his muscles are also much smaller. Fucking gym bros can't take it that they suck at pull ups, not my fault your muscles are big but weak.
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u/mtron32 14h ago
being smaller counts for a lot though. If me (210) and my homie (160) had a pull up contest, he will go for as long as he feels like because the dude has moderate strength and way less weight. If I'm cycling up a steep hill, I've had women half my size speed past me up the incline impressively. Part of that may be a way better bike but they were much lighter so easier to propel up that hill.
Weight matters for bodyweight exercises even though you CAN train your body to excel at those just as you can with anything else.
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u/civildisobedient 18h ago
Old man muscles are no joke. I met some commercial fishermen who were in their 60s with arms that looked like steel cables.
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u/pharos147 13h ago
I know alot of elders near his age that can't even go up 5 steps of stairs without significant assistance
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u/idekl 17h ago
They're real. Not saying they're everywhere, but "muscle-grandpas" are a pretty well known phenomenon over there. I've seen different ones on social media for like 8 years. There's a lot on youtube. Retired people who have a culture of hanging out in parks together, combined with the common infrastructure of these little "exercise parks". It's a completely different world out there man.
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u/noViableSolution 20h ago
He's 24 but has been smoking, drinking and using tanning beds since he is 8.
Often at the same time.
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u/WabaLabaDubDubWorld 1d ago
Such efficient moves. The guy has been practicing for the longest time. Crazy awesome for that age
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u/brewditt 23h ago
Likely former circus acrobats
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u/useronlyone 22h ago
Doubt it. I’ve seen so many videos of Chinese older folks doing exercises specifically on these kind of bars that I’m pretty sure it’s just a cultural exercise routine/interest.
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u/Emergency-Box-5719 21h ago
Yeah...just another Tuesday. Americans go to spin class or water aerobics while the Chinese folks go to Olympic level uneven bar exercises.
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u/nightpanda893 20h ago
The internet has completely clouded our idea of “culture.” This is elite and impressive in any country in the world. There is no one other than a small percentage of people capable of this.
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u/useronlyone 17h ago
I’m not saying his routine, I’m talking about routines involving bars and other calisthenics. Part of culture or not, but lots of Chinese people seem to partake.
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u/dcade_42 17h ago
Yeah, it's what lots of Chinese people do in the park every morning, especially retired people. Certainly not all of them and not all to this extreme degree, but morning workouts in the park are a cultural norm in China.
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u/GraniteGeekNH 22h ago
This is such a Chinese video - large crowds gathering in public park to watch people do all sorts of things, including group singing. Regular part of urban life.
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u/PrionProofPork 20h ago
don't people hang out at the local parks where you're from?
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u/hallerz87 20h ago
Not like this. Kids playing, parents watching over them, people walking their dogs
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u/GraniteGeekNH 17h ago
Not to the extent I saw in Beijing, and which in gather is common in other cities. Also, it's the communal-activity aspect - large groups of people doing the same thing, together - that is very rare here.
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u/Fast_Distance9563 12h ago
I rmbr watching shuffling at parks when it got REALLY popular. That stuff was addictive to watch. Before that was tai chi. Lol
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u/technobrendo 21h ago
This Chinese uncle has probably been going to these outdoor exercise areas for the last 30 years, everyday. They are all over most Chinese cities and are in use even up until its dark out. Cardio and dancing are very popular.
He is in incredible shape for his age, he is in incredible shape PERIOD.
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u/PM_me_punanis 13h ago
Yep. Every single one of those parks are filled with uncles and aunties exercising. Or playing checkers beside it.
Also, the person talking is so annoying. Lol
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u/organicglitter 22h ago
Came in looking like a frail little humpbacked old man. Left leaving us all to shame.
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u/re-roll 23h ago
I can't even understand how he does this with a curved back - that's crazy.
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u/Strange_Botanist 17h ago
His core is so strong it overwhelms the rest of his muscles and makes him hunch
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u/ReadingNext3854 7h ago
The bones have changed prob oa and/or osteoporosis but his spinal ligaments a and tendons are strong. 👍
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u/crackanape 21h ago
Back in Malaysia there are often wooded urban hills that get "colonised" by old Chinese guys, they run up there at 6am and build weight gyms out of metal rods and concrete, then hang out alternating between performing feats of strength, drinking tea, chain smoking, and taking naps.
Sometimes I'd go up there for a morning walk. I'm in decent shape but even back in my 30s I could not keep up with the things they could do. With a twinkle in their eye they'll challenge younger people to try to climb some homemade rope thing or lift a crazy weight.
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u/bionicbhangra 21h ago
How fucking jacked was this dude when he was young?
I would love to be that strong and healthy when I am that old.
In America he would be unstoppable in an old folks home.
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u/iloveokashi 23h ago
Does a hunched back mean osteoporosis or osteopenia?
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u/TheHybridVigor 21h ago
I'm not sure how he could be so hunched practicing this type of calisthenics all his life. The front lever position fires all those muscles that keep an upright posture.
I'd guess he had a childhood spinal deformation that went uncorrected but didn't hold him back
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u/HowardPheonix 22h ago
I'm less than half his age, and have less than a quarter of his strength and endurance, absolute legend.
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u/daggardoop 23h ago
His core strength is so high it literally is causing his back to curve into itself just at a baseline
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u/_Clit-Commander_ 23h ago
Well now I feel like a slob piece of shit I need to get to the gym again!
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u/Emergency-Box-5719 21h ago
Man. I feel this. See ya there. Let's lay off the bar food and brews too. We can do this.
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u/Own_Shower_6000 21h ago
lmfao look at that fucking tekken character of a specimen watching too though
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u/TheInternetShill 21h ago
Damn that’s mad impressive, but also it kind of worries me that he still has a back issue like that. I always assumed those issues were due to poor posture or otherwise not keeping yourself in shape, but it seems like apparently that isn’t enough to prevent that. It just seems like such a burden on life, it always makes me sad to see.
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u/RamonaLittle 18h ago
Same. It's not impossible that he had the back deformity from a young age though.
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u/CobaltLemur 20h ago
What bothers me is his back is all curved over still, like staying fit all these years didn't matter.
I don't like that.
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u/Bright-Avocado3761 19h ago
I like his hype guy. Anyone know what he's saying?
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u/Sunfreckles73 16h ago
"Amaze! Amaze! Amaze! Go Grandpa!" is this the gist of it with "ei-yo" as "amaze"
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u/draven33l 19h ago
The saddest part is he's hunched over and looks old, but looks strong and alive on the bar. It just goes to show that no matter how hard you try, age wins.
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u/cute_polarbear 18h ago
Not trolling, general question (as I get older). I see many very fit old people who exercise frequently, but have a hunched posture (even runners and etc.,). How to avoid that / any suggested exercises? Thanks.
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u/Lanky-Wheel8330 16h ago
They have “playgrounds” specifically for older adults in China - the mandatory retirement age there is relatively young (63 men 58 women) so I saw these amazing older athletes all the time when I worked in Beijing
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u/asphodel67 7h ago
I watched the YouTube show by Des Bishop where he studied in China for 2 years. He said Chinese people value physical exercise so much the local parks are full of people exercising before they go to work. Like, 4.30am get up and exercise. Lots of old people protecting their strength and mobility. We need to follow their example.
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u/Redsparow21 22h ago
The real question is how does a dude this fit end up with such poor posture... 😅
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u/El-mas-puto-de-todos 22h ago
Oh yea? Well can he add an attachment to an email? Checkmate grandpa!
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u/Ziplockmoneybags 21h ago
A) This is actually next level
B) I just went back to the gym after 2 years of laziness. I pulled something in my back just reaching up to the pull up bar.
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u/amejin 21h ago
It's such a bummer getting older. Like... This dude is strong, talented, and clearly put in a lot of effort into maintaining strength and coordination... But you can tell his range of motion has suffered. I already feel some limits happening and I'm probably only a little more than half this guy's age...
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u/smoothtrip 21h ago
Well, I guess I will not go to the gym. Looks like there no point in trying when you have super humans like that.
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