What exercise have you done today?

John cycling said:
Here are a few random thoughts, hopefully helpful.
Personally I feel that pushups are okay for people in their early 20s, but unnecessary and way too hard for seniors.
Also that nitric oxide blow out fad, using quick jerky movements with no recovery between, is totally the wrong way to exercise.

Okay, so what to do. The way to build strength is with slow movements, not quick jerky ones.
You could use a couple of 3 or 5 pound handweights, lay on your back on and bed, and raise the weights slowly up and down.
For the heart etc, steady continuous exercise is best. The intensity can be gradually increased with fitness, taking care to not overdo it.
Walking is a great exercise for this. Personally I feel that walking is perhaps the best exercise, due to it's importance in keeping our mobility.
Walking around the house, walking around the yard, walking around the neighborhood.
House work is exercise, washing things, cleaning the floors, doing yard work, gardening, mowing the grass (and weeds).

Any exercise, before doing it fast and/or hard, first needs to be first done slowly and easily.
Plus any time an exercise is too hard, it's too hard. New exercises are best started out both slowly and easily.
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There is a man who lives in my area 92 who walks 2 miles every am , think he takes off weekends and it gets HOT / humid here Spring / Summer in fact today we hit 85 but he seems unfazed .

I do not see him a lot just now and then but we chat . He is also mentally sharp .

I once suggested perhaps a stationary bike or even treadmill inside due to the heat and he looked at me with disgust and said no he liked to walk .

Good thing I did not offer him a ride home which had thought of doing , he would have kicked my --- .
 

Walked 2.5 miles in a nature preserve 20 miles north of where I live. We were the only 2 walking there on snow and ice covered trails(with slip on cleats over our boots). The nature preserve also has a few hills so it is a little bit of a challenge with the ice. I was so happy to have more daylight when I returned home at 6 pm, I took another 30 minute walk in my neighborhood:)
 
Welp. I went to the doctor over my immovable right arm and was diagnosed with a tear in my rotary cuff. It's from doing that Nitric Oxide Release work-out that I recommended to you guys and linked here twice.
Thanks goodness none of you paid any attention to me!

I told my sweet little doc about my lifetime of devoted exercise; the calisthenics>Canadian Air Force plan>aerobics >jogging> jumping rope>ballet bar>dozens of DVDs. From 1962 to today.

He kindly told me that I might have reached the age where it's doing me more harm than good, because the repetitive nature of exercises can be very wearing on joints and ligaments.

Now don't let me discourage anyone. I've been at it non-stop for 65 years before I reached this point and it's possible my healthy heart and lungs (in spite of smoking for 25 years) and my good blood sugar numbers (in spite of my sweet tooth) are at least partly good because of all that exercise. It's just over for me.

[I can't do any walking or biking because my bad fall a few years ago permanently blew out my MCL and every step I take causes my leg to bow inward and all the sitting routines use a lot of big arm exercises.]

I still have my housework. :love:

I'll still be watching you all.
 

Della said:
He kindly told me that I might have reached the age where it's doing me more harm than good, because the repetitive nature of exercises can be very wearing on joints and ligaments.
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To me, that sounds more self-serving than kindly. The less exercise people do, the more their bodies wear out,
the more they become dependent on doctors. They know that, which is why they constantly push that false dicotomy.

In her 70s, my Mom went to a doctor due to having some pain in her legs. The doctor told my Mom, who had the good
habit of walking a lot, to stay off her feet. I told her, "Mom, you need to keep walking. If you stop, then you'll lose that ability.
Remember the saying, use it or lose it." However she took his advice and soon after that she lost her ability to walk on her own.
First she started using a walker for a few years, then she was confined to an electric chair for the rest of her life.

Walking is especially good for the knees, along with easy slow natural squats and other knee exercises of various types,
as the repetition and movement through various positions helps to distribute the synovial fluid through the knees, the same
being the case with other joints and tissues as well. Rather than stopping, perhaps pick and choose a path that is better for you.
 
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Twostep said:
Oh Della! How will this be treated?
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Thanks, Twostep, you've a very caring person. We're trying a course of prednisone right now which seems to have "cured" it. At the moment it's taken away the pain, but when I stop taking it next week, it may come back. This means the tear might be small and I won't need surgery, but time will tell.

@John cycling -- I hear what you're saying and "use it or lose it" is just what my 80 year old golfing big brother was telling me yesterday. I expect I'll be looking for something I can do as soon as I get through this week of prednisone.
 
Della said:
Thanks, Twostep, you've a very caring person. We're trying a course of prednisone right now which seems to have "cured" it. At the moment it's taken away the pain, but when I stop taking it next week, it may come back. This means the tear might be small and I won't need surgery, but time will tell.

@John cycling -- I hear what you're saying and "use it or lose it" is just what my 80 year old golfing big brother was telling me yesterday. I expect I'll be looking for something I can do as soon as I get through this week of prednisone.
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Please do not get the cart before the horse. Right now you are on steroids and not in the sense of invincible. My permanent room mate is such a patient. But doc it does not hurt anymore! Time for an old time remedy - 2x4!
 
Della said:
Welp. I went to the doctor over my immovable right arm and was diagnosed with a tear in my rotary cuff. It's from doing that Nitric Oxide Release work-out that I recommended to you guys and linked here twice.
Thanks goodness none of you paid any attention to me!

I told my sweet little doc about my lifetime of devoted exercise; the calisthenics>Canadian Air Force plan>aerobics >jogging> jumping rope>ballet bar>dozens of DVDs. From 1962 to today.

He kindly told me that I might have reached the age where it's doing me more harm than good, because the repetitive nature of exercises can be very wearing on joints and ligaments.

Now don't let me discourage anyone. I've been at it non-stop for 65 years before I reached this point and it's possible my healthy heart and lungs (in spite of smoking for 25 years) and my good blood sugar numbers (in spite of my sweet tooth) are at least partly good because of all that exercise. It's just over for me.

[I can't do any walking or biking because my bad fall a few years ago permanently blew out my MCL and every step I take causes my leg to bow inward and all the sitting routines use a lot of big arm exercises.]

I still have my housework. :love:

I'll still be watching you all.
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I'm in Miami and as you know Miami you can say is other then the beach area Latin America . I had a plumbing job Mon where a guy smoked for 50 years like so many do in Latin America he was in a coma , had a stroke 5 years ago , he is 100 percent now .

He looks great , I told him I might now take up smoking see if it puts some hair on my bald head because even his hair was lush .
 
John cycling said:
To me, that sounds more self-serving than kindly. The less exercise people do, the more their bodies wear out,
the more they become dependent on doctors. They know that, which is why they constantly push that false dicotomy.

In her 70s, my Mom went to a doctor due to having some pain in her legs. The doctor told my Mom, who had the good
habit of walking a lot, to stay off her feet. I told her, "Mom, you need to keep walking. If you stop, then you'll lose that ability.
Remember the saying, use it or lose it." However she took his advice and soon after that she lost her ability to walk on her own.
First she started using a walker for a few years, then she was confined to an electric chair for the rest of her life.

Walking is especially good for the knees, along with easy slow natural squats and other knee exercises of various types,
as the repetition and movement through various positions helps to distribute the synovial fluid through the knees, the same
being the case with other joints and tissues as well. Rather than stopping, perhaps pick and choose a path that is better for you.
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Agree and have met countless here who never had cars , walked miles their entire lives and they are not kids .
 
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I still tend to do my free weights upper-body exercise in the evening... nothing extreme, just to keep fit for demands of everyday tasks.

I've been experimenting with riding the exercise bike in the early part of the day, meaning various times in the morning. Getting the circulation increase with a timing that seems to clear my head for the day. I'm now supposing it'll be my routine, but I do go by feel in terms of how I adjust these habits.
 
I do not exercise and basically can not. I have a very rare auto immune disease Eosinophilic fasciitis.
Mine came from trying to exercise 5 years ago. Mind you they were simple, things, no fitness center, I mean a 3 year old could of done what I was doing. I saw 5 different doctors of different specialty. The rheumatologist knew exactly what it was . One year later, I was considered healed, but apparently there are some after effects.
But I will take this disease over what others have been cursed with.
 
My husband and I got out for another 3 mile nature trail walk this afternoon. Today makes 7 days in a row we were able to get out for a late afternoon walk to take advantage of the dry, spring weather. But rain is on the way for the weekend. Oh well, better than getting any significant snow fall this time of year. If my hip/sciatica pain wouldn't flare up walking on concrete, I would do a mall walk. :)
 
RedAlert76 said:
No just the first year.Plus I had to rake 2 other pills to counter react what perdnisone does.
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That seems to be always the problem with pills. :( You take one to help whatever ails you, and then there is another pill, or a several other pills that you have to take to counteract the side effects of all the other pills. It's damned if you, damned if you don't.
 
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