Personal Health?

Coach Potter said:
I can’t think of anyone who has been helped by my advice🤣.
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when we were around 30, living on a tight budget with three kids, I gave my wife a present of 10 workout sessions with a woman personal trainer at a local small gym, knowing she would never even think of letting that money go to waste. She's been exercising at home and gym ever since.. :)
 
SurfnFish said:
when we were around 30, living on a tight budget with three kids, I gave my wife a present of 10 workout sessions with a woman personal trainer at a local small gym, knowing she would never even think of letting that money go to waste. She's been exercising at home and gym ever since.. :)
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We did that for my mother in law. Went to two of ten and it's been two years since she last went 😂
 
While it has always been the case that it is critical that we become an aggressive advocate for our own health care it has become doubly so since covid. Within our stressed medical system, it is just too easy to delay tests, appointments, etc. We have to insisted on getting our questions answered, needed tests, etc. otherwise it is too easy for the "system" to put things off.

Curt
 
I'm 60, laying in bed, and scrolling.
My finger never takes a day off but my eyes need readers.
 
BriGuy said:
I've discovered that it is physically possible to slow down the progression of time by riding a stationary bike. Never has an hour felt so long. 😉

Seriously, though, modern indoor bikes with all the feedback they provide are great!
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Takes a lot of discipline to ride or run indoors. I did it, but hated it. Just had to for racing. I would always get dressed and get out no matter the weather if at all doable. That's how I figured out I had an aptitude for cyclocross.
Still hate working out indoors. A few hours wading a slippery stream, park activities with the grandkids, yard care, that's what works for me now.
Still getting 20-25 hours of OUTDOOR activities, it's just different stuff.
 
Zoran said:
I struggle with weight and fitness. Work from home mandate cut my daily bike commute to office. It was 12km total, back home kind of uphill. In addition my food intake was smaller while at work. Now, try to compensate with daily 3km walk in the park. That is how I spend lunch.

I am eating more at home and that makes me mad. I am pleasantly surprised my blood tests are very good but they are not going to be if I don’t start biking more often. Looking forward to start of dry fly fishing season. I found your replies very inspiring.

I found myself working longer hours voluntarily. I like a lot my work, my employer and I am satisfied how I am treated. Struggle is that I am mostly alone at home during work day, sleeping in one room and working in another. Connected by chat to colleagues but no visual contact. I think it affects me sometimes.

During lunch time in office we used to talk about hockey, have walk around building, learn something out of work related, meet someone out of our team.

My wife hands me list of things to do thinking I don’t do much in life, since she goes to work every day. I hate doing this small chores every day I used to do on weekends (if I am not out fishing and she must do it 😏)
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I wake up to list of chores daily. Since my wife is forcing me us to move to retirement t condo the tasks have .multiplied. no regular fishing or bike riding for now. Stress earing has added weight that I lost when joining road biking group in early spring
 
have had an Armstrong trainer for 20 years, primarily used in winter, which replaced a road bike on a wind trainer. Like to mix the saddle time with weights, bands, and floor ....spin, hit a set, back on the saddle, rinse and repeat, makes for a good workout and breaks up the spin boredom...and now, off to the pool to join the other water dogs
 
I get my weekly workout roping CAPR.


Seriously though, lots of great stuff in this thread!
 
Evan B said:
One thing I've learned since really taking this seriously in my mid 20s: hardly anyone will listen to this advice. They have to come to the realization on their own. Not one friend, family member or acquaintance I've had this discussion with since realizing the same thing has taken my advice. None, zero. They either continue to make excuses or just say "I don't wanna," or they had a "rock bottom moment" of their own that made them come around. Wish it was something people would listen to, but I just haven't seen it happen.

I think what's even more frustrating for me is having someone I know decide they want to do something, but choosing the path of least resistance or some fad that won't yield sustainable results. Others get focused solely on one thing like steady state cardio, which while still being better than nothing, is inferior to anaerobic strength training for overall health and fitness as we age. And I'm someone who REALLY enjoys the cardio, and is good at it.

Like I said before: I'm happy to help and could make a thread on the topic, I just know most who WANT to do something are likely already doing it. My audience would be for those who are in that situation but don't know how to do it (which is actually a lot of folks). One thing I'll say about strength training is that without some kind of professional coaching, you're likely to do the major lifts incorrectly. No amount of watching you tube or reading online is going to get you lifting right. In my training/coaching of hundreds of people, I've never once had someone come in fresh off the street and be able to do ANY barbell or dumbbell lifting with proper form unless they had previous experience with a professional coach of some type.
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You are so right!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For 50-plus years I have had the privilege of working with preteens and teens both as a classroom teacher and a Wrestling coach. They do well when they know they can do well and they change only when they know they can change. All we can do is remove the obstacles and try to build their confidence!
 
I am the most healthy no matter what I do. NO ONE IS AS HEALTHY AS ME!!!!! It doesn't matter i can eat a steak. FIVE STEAKS!!!! if I feel like EATING five steaks i'm eating 5 STEAKS!!! I remain considered the MOST HEALTHY regardless because I assert my health!!!
 
This is why I like AI. It tells me what I want to be true 😂

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(My times are real, my "1%/elite" status, I'll just believe because that makes me feel good)
 
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Fourbtgait said:
Though being retired, still lift 3 times a week, blah blah.
The most profound or biggest boost to my health, was being forced away from a male Dr., to using a female Physician’s Assistant. Whereas he was always rushed, saying no issues. She actually listened. When I reiterated something I had said to the Dr before, she took it several steps further and found the actual reasons why, prescribing lifestyle changes all for the better.
Sure, at first it was uncomfortable talking personal issues with a female, but finding out she listened was eye opening. I lost track of her, requesting another female PA and she listened. I finally found her at a different clinic then lost her again. But before she left, I asked her who else at the clinic was as good as her, she referenced a female Dr. 4 years later, I am still confident a female in healthcare gives better service than male.
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Women are far better GP's from what I have seen. Listening is the most important skill and I have found female GP's to be far better at listening.
 
For those messaging asking what school I coach at: I don't work/coach at a school. I coach and train at a strength and conditioning gym to (mostly) adults. Average age for most of the classes I instruct is around 40-50yrs old, give or take. Usually between 10-30 people per class.
 
Bad arthritis from not having a functional PCL in my right knee (college soccer injury) means that biking is really the only place I can push my limits these days at 60. Still do all the other stuff, just can't go all out like I once did. Like Coach, I try to go 7 days, alternating biking (outdoors and indoors on Zwift) with weight bearing exercises or outdoor landscaping stuff.
I ride 4 days a week about 10 hours cumulative in the summer except when training for an even when it ramps up. A little less in the winter due to mental fatigue from the indoor trainer. Weights on the off days. My step daughter is a personal trainer so I always have a plan...
 
I am 74 years old, swim at the health club 3 tim s a week. Golf occasionally. Unfortunately I have type 2 diabetes and 3 months ago my doctor put me on Mounjaro. She said my appetite will decrease. It sure did decrease; I lost 20lbs in the last 3 months and I eat 1/2 of what I used to eat.
 
Congratulations to all of you who have worked out ways to stay fit. My regimen is 4-6 mile walks a few times each week and yard work. I need to work on upper body and arms more though. To try to improve mental sharpness, I am learning piano…which is quite challenging for me.
Also belong to a book club and that has been rewarding. One book we read a while back is called “Outlive.” It is on the subject of fitness as a lifelong objective.
 
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