Are You Doing Any Exercise for Fitness?

I've done pretty strenuous exercise most of my life, along with lots of manual labor. Boxed, competitive running, weight lifting, ballet, circuit training, etc.. Did 500 sit-ups a day, and 100 pushups every other, for many years, down to 200 crunches now, along with 3o min on the bow flex, and brisk 3-4 mile walks. Have laid off everything except stretching for the last two weeks, as I tweaked my back. Feeling much better after seeing my Rolfing lady, and will see her again tomorrow. Will get back to my normal routine in few more days. Have learned the hard way not to push an injury. Always feel better physically and mentally when I workout. Guess it's part of the type A thing.
 

Della said:
I've been doing this routine with this nice peppy Dr. Joe. I like it because it doesn't require any walking on my bad leg but still gets my heart pumping.

Best thing about it is it only lasts four minutes.
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Thank you for sharing this. I could listen to this guy for hours. I go to the gym 5 days a week for strength training but don't do nearly enough stretching so I will do this also!
 

Nathan said:
@Alligatorob , You sound like me...or maybe visa-versa. Actually I'm a bit off my typical regimen, after a recent family tragedy. But I'm trying to get back to normal, yesterday went on a 6+ mile hike with my son. I do have one knee that lets me know when it's had too much fun.
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Me too. My knee issues are due to bursitis that I've had since my 30's. We hiked on Monday in San Jacinto and I was wearing jeans due to the cold weather. If my knee rubs against anything for long periods of time it swells and turns red and reminds me I'm not immortal. :(
 
Geezer Garage said:
I've done pretty strenuous exercise most of my life, along with lots of manual labor. Boxed, competitive running, weight lifting, ballet, circuit training, etc.. Did 500 sit-ups a day, and 100 pushups every other, for many years, down to 200 crunches now, along with 3o min on the bow flex, and brisk 3-4 mile walks. Have laid off everything except stretching for the last two weeks, as I tweaked my back. Feeling much better after seeing my Rolfing lady, and will see her again tomorrow. Will get back to my normal routine in few more days. Have learned the hard way not to push an injury. Always feel better physically and mentally when I workout. Guess it's part of the type A thing.
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I also worked out all my life doing a variety of things: running, hiking, weights, racket ball, swimming, boxing, pushups. pullups, aerobics, and Judo which I loved. The only that I was halfway good at was Judo (I hated Karate). I was so-so at everything else.
In my early 60's the owner of the gym I used encouraged all of us "fit" older guys to start taking "progress" photos of ourselves to keep track of our progress.

I have another one taken just before I turned 70. We had some guys in their 80's who just blew me away with the shape they were in. One 84-year-old fellow did deadlifts with about 280 pounds, and he only weighed about 170. We had another guy in his 80's who did excellent pullups, and a 95-year-old who came in and used the treadmill everyday and then lifted light weights.

I was doing fine until Prostrate cancer got me. That treatment stripped muscle off of me like crazy. I am over the cancer now, and able to workout again. But I will never get back to where I was at 65, or at 69 when I was close to turning 70.

Such is life, I had a good run and we just "roll with it."Pecos At 69.JPG

This is me at 65:


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Della said:
I'm super impressed that you can get down on the floor and back up!
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Funny you should comment on this. Several years ago, I showed a neighour how easy it was for me to drop down on the lawn and then get right up. She said she could never do it. Actually, I get down on the floor 5 days/week when I limber up in the morning. As far as I am concerned, if you take care of yourself and keep fit, there is no reason to do the "old man's walk" that I see everyday with the seniors around here. You know, "the senior shuffle" or whatever you want to call it. Too much TV for them; I figure!
 
Funny, I was at the doctors the other day and got the standard question... " do you exercise"? I chuckled and said... well... I don't belong to a gym or anything, but, unless you would consider climbing a ladder and working on my roof, climbing the ladder and installing solar heating pool panels, walking the dogs every morning, afternoon, and evening, shoveling and spreading an average 1900 pounds of mulch that my little trailer would haul onto the sandy soil they call dirt here,(so far somewhere around 30 trips) then raking the large pieces off the new grass, painting the house, (inside and out), clearing the property (pulling vines and sticker bush's), and, building or remodeling parts of the house as the woman thinks of it, then no... I don't exercise. ;):ROFLMAO:
 
Pecos said:
I also worked out all my life doing a variety of things: running, hiking, weights, racket ball, swimming, boxing, pushups. pullups, aerobics, and Judo which I loved. The only that I was halfway good at was Judo (I hated Karate). I was so-so at everything else.
In my early 60's the owner of the gym I used encouraged all of us "fit" older guys to start taking "progress" photos of ourselves to keep track of our progress.

I have another one taken just before I turned 70. We had some guys in their 80's who just blew me away with the shape they were in. One 84-year-old fellow did deadlifts with about 280 pounds, and he only weighed about 170. We had another guy in his 80's who did excellent pullups, and a 95-year-old who came in and used the treadmill everyday and then lifted light weights.

I was doing fine until Prostrate cancer got me. That treatment stripped muscle off of me like crazy. I am over the cancer now, and able to workout again. But I will never get back to where I was at 65, or at 69 when I was close to turning 70.

Such is life, I had a good run and we just "roll with it."View attachment 216434

This is me at 65:


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Thought you weren't going to post these but okay....! :D Looking good MDB.
 
I've decided to start my exercise program again. I gained back some of that 26 pounds I had lost. I've been what I call "stress eating". I think a lot of it has to do with being bored, though I shouldn't be with all I could be doing. I ran into my upstairs neighbor yesterday when I was taking my walk (several times around the block). She's 85 years old and she wants to start back walking on Monday. We are supposed to go to the next town over and walk around the strip mall before the stores open. I wanted to walk again today but we are supposed to have storms this afternoon so I'd better take the garbage out and walk this morning. I'm also planning to pull out my mini peddler and get back to dancing to my dance playlists. I'm going to see if I can get my neighbor to sign up for the senior center so we can go on Tuesdays and Thursdays, exercise days.
 
SeaBreeze said:
I go on a walk daily with my dog, around 2 miles in the park. I just started going to the gym again, after slacking off for a couple of months. I don't get too intense there, just some time on the weight machines, exercise bikes, elliptical or treadmill. Sometimes I'll squeeze in a Zumba or other exercise class. I only go a few times a week, and usually out of there in around an hour. :eek:nthego:
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Yep I do strength training with dumbbells and bands twice a week, go on bicycle rides twice a week, and hike with a moderately loaded backpack once a week.
 
I have little gym in my living room (or you could say, in lieu of a living room). I was down to an hour a day but am back up to 1.5 hours, 6 days a week.

Half an hour of that is on the rebounder (mini trampoline). This is what brought me back from being crippled.

I also stretch for 15 minutes every day.

Other equipment includes
Treadmill
BOSU
Leg Magic
Flags*
Hula hoops
Resistance bands

Most of my equipment is second hand. I did pay several hundred for the rebounder. It was worth every penny!

*If you're curious about the flags, the ones I use don't have a pole; they have weights sewn into one corner. Here's a nice demonstration (not me in the video).
 
Since surgery I have tried real hard to get in a lot of exercise, especially my knees and legs. 2 to 3 hours a day, 6 days a week, mostly in the gym, some at physical therapy. My gym time is not so vigorous as most, so I try to do more hours.

I think it has helped a lot with recovery.

Physical therapist today suggested I slow it down a little, maybe I will but its winter and got not much else to do.
 
Because covid wrecked my lungs, I FINALLY figured out a routine for exercise. What I do now is that instead of a brisk walk it's a slower walk about 1/3 speed and I may breathe heavy during it.
What this does is gives me the exercise but doesn't leave me breathless at the end of my exercise. It's still too early to tell but I'm working on that and I just got my mandolin safety slicer so I will be going and shopping for vegetables tomorrow.
So, tomorrow I start and we'll see just how well it goes I am running a kind of a diary which I've been up and down like crazy on it so we'll see how successful this becomes.
 
SeaBreeze said:
Doug, most animals move about all the time and stay active naturally, also they don't eat food with all the additives and fillers in it that we sometimes do...unless of course, we feed it to them. You're not saying that obesity is the result of exercise, are you?
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Well most obese Americans get plenty of exercise travelling back and forth from the couch to the refrigerator. And dont forget all that exercise getting in and out of the car before and after the trips to the drive- thru 🤣
 

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