Glycomann
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I'm always a little taken aback when I see these threads. So far i have avoided back surgeries. I have degeneration L3-S1 and haven't squatted or deadlifted heavy in 7-8 years at this point. Lots of other lifts that load the spine I have replaced. I guess age teaches humility. I think all the AAS over the years didn't help things. I am thinking of Joe Krupiel. He was a 1936 alternate in Oly lifting. I knew him in his late 60s and realty 70s. He was natural and still very well built. He still did clean and press from the floor nearly every day I saw him in the gym. He was still setting power lifting records in age groups into his late 80s. No surgeries that I know of. N=1 here but still...