How physically fit are you?

I have a dog (who is the perfect companion) - we walk 2 plus miles/day. I find going to a gym, exercise class and joining a "walking club" do not work for me - ie excuses such as too wet, slept in, not in the mood, excuses ad infinitum. I do have an exercise bike - for impressing visitors!! (ie hardly use it)
 
belong to our local gym, love to go, and have it as an option, usually twice weekly,
treadmill, ellipticals, slow and easy though, especially these days or past two years...

I love potatoes and also eat them while relaxing on the couch :)

never been a mall rat, but am a coffee shop rat at times, decaf, one cream, no sugar...

lately a laptop, computer rat~
 
I work out 2 or 3 times a week — usually 2. I don't want to overdo it. If I work out any more, my knee gives me problems, so every three days seems about right. Once it warms up a bit, I'll be in my shop more, which provides some exercise.
 
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Until the weather changed for the worse I was stair walking, generally 100 flights per session - now I use the elliptical at max incline and good resistance.......increase the resistance, for a shorter period, on the afternoon session.
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Just came across this pic.....wooden stairs not far from our place. My max, in one day, was done a few weeks shy of my 71st birthday in 2013 - 170 repeats, 6785 risers.....the equivalent of going to the observation deck of the CN Tower in Toronto 3.82 times. Those were the days.
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I never needed a gym. I kept horses most of my life. Hay bales average #60 and I lifted several AD carried them daily. Grain bags are #50 each, and lots of them too. Then there's the stall cleaning, fence fixing, and all the other small things besides actually saddling (another #45) and riding. Now, add to that dragging around a #20 pound oxygen concentrator, and being down to about 45% lung capacity, and I think I am hanging in there pretty well.
 
My daily routine is 50' elliptical plus 10' treadmill, or else 60'+ of walking & running outside.

Nemo2 said:
Until the weather changed for the worse I was stair walking, generally 100 flights per session - now I use the elliptical at max incline and good resistance.......increase the resistance, for a shorter period, on the afternoon session.
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That's interesting. So you use #20 for the ramp, and what for resistance?
Being new to this, I've been putting the ramp to #1, the resistance to #8, and going by the distance over time.

Nemo2 said:
My max, in one day, was done a few weeks shy of my 71st birthday in 2013 - 170 repeats, 6785 risers
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Quite impressive! Shades of Matt Carpenter.
Personally, I found that focusing on uphills only wasn't good for my speed, so I did repeats of both ups and downs.
 
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I used to do the gym, Zumba classes, ride my bike, etc. For the past few years, my main exercise is daily walks with my dog in a large open area park, around two miles. Doing all the shopping, running all the errands, house and yard work. My gym closed down for Covid, and I've had no interest in going to another one, was never a gym rat.
 
I have a goal of 7500 steps per day. It used to be a 11k goal, then it dwindled to 10k, and now some days I don't even get the 7500 (but other days I get 9k - 11k). Currently one toe is bruised and sore so I haven't gotten my walk for a couple days. I attending a 'Mind/Body' class for the first time yesterday (here at the retirement community I've moved to) and just standing making arm circles was causing a lot of joint popping sounds, also my balance is not very good -- but at least others in the class also wobbled, though they looked a lot older than me, I wonder what age my body is, I feel like it is older than it should be.
 
Yes, just do it ...

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