Well,i am well past 50 and still making gains,i just had three major surgeries,one was reconstruction elbow surgery,which had my right arm shrink from 18" to 16.5 last feb,3rd,now may 25th my arm is back up to the other arm of 17.7' each,so it has improved a lot in the last few weeks,of steady lifting,as I am now prepping for the new Englands contest in boston this oct. 29th,the last time I was on that stage was 1996 and I was 41 than.