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• Old man strength by Nick912 on 27 Jan, 2008 09:55
• I just posted in the Discipline thread and it made me think of the times that my Dad got ahold of me. He has crazy "Old man strength". He did manual labor and worked hard all his life. He is not a very big guy but man when he gets ahold of you he can crush you!
  
  I consider myself a pretty strong and fit guy. Even today when me and dad wrestle around keeping in mind that he is in his early 60's he is strong as an ox. He will grab ahold of you and has a kung fu grip that will bruise.
  
  Does anyone else know about "old man strength"? 
• #1 by Robmeister on 27 Jan, 2008 13:10
• Yeah, my ol' man was a tough ol' cuss.  WWII combat vet.  He's now 83 so his strength can't quite back up his mouth anymore.  But he can out-ski me when he visits here in Denver.  Great shape for 83.
  
  He was in his 50's when my sister and I were teens.  My sisters boyfriends were scared of him.
  
  I'll be in the same boat with my kids hitting their teens when I'm in my 50's.....so I'm dedicated to follow my dad's example and stay in good shape.  That and a bald noggin might be the intimidation factor needed to keep punks from messin' with my little girl. 
• #2 by Timmay on 27 Jan, 2008 13:14
• My dad is that way.  I just wish sometimes I had my dads build......but from the Puddin pics....you can guess my dad doesnt look like me ! LOL
  No but seriously, my dad worked in a rail yard as a welder and he always had these huge arms and was over all fit. He never worked out or anything but I guess his natural metabolism kept him in good shape.  My dad is 58...not old by any means....but his mind is showing his age sometimes. LOL....He has alot of upper body strength...where as I have alot of lower body strength..my legs.  I guess its probably all those Richard videos ..jammin to the oldies..LOL
  
• #3 by frostillicus123 on 27 Jan, 2008 17:26
• My old man is 53 he had a massive heart attack a few years ago and lost a lot of size, both muscle and fat. before his heart attack we were wrestling around and i'm a big dude and at the time in great shape and in Jujitsu and he was keeping up with me. I refused to use and subs cause he didn't know any... but he was strong. He also had some real fast hands for being a dude 300+ lbs. Now that he's a lot smaller and hasn't got much heart left about 40% we don't fool around like that, but I still respect his hands i know that they are still fast.
  
  With that being said the day my old man realized I wasn't a little kid anymore I was about 18, and was trying to put some things in my school bag, and he was in my way, can't remember how I asked him to move, can't piocture it being too rude, he wouldn't and asked what I was going to do, I got some double under hooks spun him around and sweeped his feet, and landed on top of him with a thud. and we started to roll around on the floor. Must have been a site to see i remember mommo worried thinking we were fighting but it was all in good fun.
  
  And a story just to show the respect my old man got.
  
  I was in College with a fella from my home town who knew my parents was friends with one of my uncles. Now this guy was in jail a few times, was a well known scrapper, and could handle himself really well. At the point I met him he had turned his life around and was focusing on becomming a better person. Anyway I was joking about doing something stupid and getting kicked out of school (the teacher also from my home town and knew both my parents well being good friends with the same uncle that other guy was). My teacher said now what will you do when you get kicked out of school and your father finds out, my reply was "he won't go home i'll go live with Winston" now winston's reply was "When frosty the big man comes walking up my mountain looking for you I'm pointing the to closet you are hiding in. That's a man I don't want to piss off I've seen him in action."
  
  So to have that kind of respect from someone who is litterally scared of no one shows my old man lived something i might not quite know.
  
  So anyway; I asked my friend about the "seen him in action" and he began to tell me a story about my father and uncle being at a boot legger in there neighborhood. (this boot legger owned a store and took care of his community giving my father and uncles/aunts jobs in his store as young kids in the 60's and 70's, he also send food home to families that needed it including my fathers)
  My uncle is a bit of a mouthy fella and gets himself into some jams (at least he use to not so much anymore being 55 does that to a fella). My old man on the other hand is a quite dude that seriously likes to avoid trouble. So they are at this boot leggers place and someone starts screwing around with my uncle, my uncle told the fella on no uncertain terms where to go and how to get there. This dude and his buddies requested my uncle to step outside, my uncle says ok stands f**k outside I kicked your ass here before let's do it again. And drills the guy, as his friends start to gang in my uncle my old man jumps up and clears the table swinging for the fences. The room had 7 people in it my dad my uncle, my friend Winston who was about 14 at the time (he is a bit younger than my parents.) turned out the other 4 were the dude my uncle was fighting and his friends. Winston told me that they cleared the room those guys either left with there tails between their legs, or was on the floor a bloody mess (my uncle was a little ruthless and left his enemy for lack of better words a little worse for wear)
  
  I went to my old man with that story and all he ever did was give me a smile and say I don’t remember that. But he had that smile told more than words ever would.
  
• #4 by Medic aka Rocko on 27 Jan, 2008 17:29
• I've experienced this with a patient I took to the hospital one night.  Not sure what was actually wrong with him, but he was very combative and around 80 years old.  Took 3 of us to keep him from hurting us or himself.  I later heard that while in the hospital, it took an unusually large amount of meds to sedate him and keep him that way so they could treat him.
• #5 by dope on 27 Jan, 2008 19:17
• Quote from: Nick912 on 27 Jan, 2008 09:55

  I just posted in the Discipline thread and it made me think of the times that my Dad got ahold of me. He has crazy "Old man strength". He did manual labor and worked hard all his life. He is not a very big guy but man when he gets ahold of you he can crush you!
  
  I consider myself a pretty strong and fit guy. Even today when me and dad wrestle around keeping in mind that he is in his early 60's he is strong as an ox. He will grab ahold of you and has a kung fu grip that will bruise.
  
  Does anyone else know about "old man strength"? 
  

  
  I turn 63 in a couple of weeks. I know about "old man strength". Former body builder and still work out. 60 is the new 40 dontcha know
• #6 by Alexander215 on 27 Jan, 2008 20:40
• I haven't met too many older gents with small, frail hands so I've always wondered if its just a natural progression for their hands to be come larger.
  It will be interesting to see todays generations grow older and see.
  All the men in my family have larger, powerful hands so I think that some of it is genetic, and some of it is grown.
• #7 by Tyler on 28 Jan, 2008 02:07
• My grandfather is like that.  He was a boxer back in the Navy during WWII and a rancher for a large portion of his life.  At 84 I'm still amazed at his strength.
• #8 by PBurke on 28 Jan, 2008 06:41
• my dad is 6' 4" and about 300 lbs or more. up until a couple yeas ago when his health got to him, he was like a grizzly bear. with those big work hardened hands
• #9 by Mikekoz13 on 28 Jan, 2008 06:47
• My Dad is 72 now and he too has had heart problems over the years. He was 42 when he had his first heart attack. Seven years ago when he was 65 he started having a lot of problems. Turned out his arteries were in critical condition. They immediately hospitalized him and the next AM did quadruple bypass. Before the operation the doctors counseled us that the chances were high that he wouldn't make it thru the operation becasue his heart was so bad. But he did make it htru and when I talked to the surgeon after the surgery I asked him "How much longer do we have with my dad.... months, a year, what?" He looked down and said "I would enjoy every day that you have left with your Dad'. That was seven years ago next month. he still rides his bicycle about 5 miles a day in the warm months.
  
  My dad is a small guy, anly 5 feet 6 inches with an average build. I never really thought of my dad as tough.
  
  but about 10 years ago right before my Uncle Ron died I had a long talk with him. My dad and Uncle Ron met in the army and married sisters making them brother in laws. My Dad was in Airborne and my Uncle eventually moved on and became a Green Beret and fought in Vietnam.  He was the toughest but kindest man I ever knew.  During our converstion he was telling me about all the times he and Dad had spent together in the Army. They used to drink and fight just like a lot of Army guys.
  At the end of the conversation my Uncle quietly said to me," Of all the tough guys I've known in my life, and I've know many, your dad was the toughest'". I was shocked and simply said "ReallY?'. he never said another word but just smiled, rocked back in his chair and gave a very slight nod. He apparently was remembering some good times. We lost my Uncle not too long after that. It was the only time i have ever seen dad cry,,,, and that was just a tear or two, out back behind the funeral home.
  
  
                                            Mike..... appreciating everyday that tough old guy is still around-
  
  
                                                                     You still ROCK Dad........
• #10 by frostillicus123 on 28 Jan, 2008 07:27
• I don't know what it is with the old boys and big hands. All my uncles and my old man have huge hands. where mine aren't all that big for a guy my size.
  
  Thinking about all my uncles they are all incredibly tough individulges. My dad's 2 oldest brothers (about 10 and 8 years older than pops) they use to scrap all the time, uncle Billy the older of the 2 would carry a knife with him cause the boys in his day were big on the weapons. My uncle Bobby the second oldest son was the frist person in Yarmouth to have his hands registered as leathal because the judge got tired of seeing a nice guy getting into fights every weekend.
  
  Now both these guys are super cool and you wouldn't picture it in a million years.
  
  My mom's youngest brother is only about 5'3 (this is the side of the family i get my height cause everyone on my dad's sides is like 6ft+) but back to my Uncle Jimmy, he's my favourite uncle, has 4 beautiful girls and is truely a loving dude. I've waqtch this guy go from 0 to hero in .001 seconds knocking people out cause they are messing around.
  
  I'm tough but these boys have earned the title.
• #11 by herronm on 28 Jan, 2008 13:32
• My Father in Law was like that.  He did manual labor his whole life.  Even into his 70's and undergoing lung cancer treatments, he was still stronger than me.  Not only that, he could fix anything and had more common sense than any "educated" person I've ever known.  He's been gone 2 years and I'll never stop missing him.
  
  Max
• #12 by frostillicus123 on 29 Jan, 2008 11:27
• After reading all our stories and thinking about mine, i have to say as much as I hate him, and there are times when i'm sure that's what it was, I absolutely love him with out question. As annoying as I find him when he's around (he annoyed the hell out of me on his last overnight visit), I miss him when i haven't seen him for a while.
  
  But for the rest of the stories without a doubt our "old man" wasn't as tough as we protray. I say this with all due respect, but i'm sure if we asked Paulie B's kids who the tough fella they know is, good chance they are going to say their dad, and in his own right he deserves it. and replace Paulie's name with any person on this forum with kids and
  
  So where am I taking this??
  
  well my point is as kids we've read the comics, watched the cartoons and as adults we watch the movies with the recent releasal of x-men, spiderman, superman, daredevil, ghost rider, fantastic 4,  Incredible Hulk, Hellboy, and the list goes on and on. we've neglected our own real life super heros that contributed to our lifes either as children, to our wife's life like in the case of herronm.
  
  Basically, as much as i've hated my old man, i realize now everything he's ever done that's made me angry he's done because it was the best he could with the availbe resources, knowledge, and ability, with only my best interest at in mind.
• #13 by Marz on 29 Jan, 2008 11:34
• My dad has been a heavy duty mechanic most of his life and he does in fact posses old(er) man strength. He is slow as molasses but if he gets a hold of you... death.
  
  Needless to say, my brother and I are both pretty quick as a result.
• #14 by PigPen on 29 Jan, 2008 11:47
• Very good point Frosty