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All right - I joined a gym

Aunt Spiker

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I'm not sure what I want to do with my fitness - but I've maintained the same level of physical ability for 2 years - and I'm sort of sick and ****ing tired of it. I don't have any means of truly changing things enough to not really quit, either. So off I go to the gym.

What do you do when you don't have anything to do? Dunno - I don't want to gain anymore muscle mass but slimming down a bit more wouldn't hurt I suppose. I don't think it would take long, really.
 
I'm not sure what I want to do with my fitness - but I've maintained the same level of physical ability for 2 years - and I'm sort of sick and ****ing tired of it. I don't have any means of truly changing things enough to not really quit, either. So off I go to the gym.

What do you do when you don't have anything to do? Dunno - I don't want to gain anymore muscle mass but slimming down a bit more wouldn't hurt I suppose. I don't think it would take long, really.

Try joining a fitness class that is fun and entertaining while helping with the cardio/weight loss - something like Zumba or Barre classes
 
Generally speaking, when I don't have anything better to do I go to work.:lol:
 
I'm not sure what I want to do with my fitness - but I've maintained the same level of physical ability for 2 years - and I'm sort of sick and ****ing tired of it. I don't have any means of truly changing things enough to not really quit, either. So off I go to the gym.

What do you do when you don't have anything to do? Dunno - I don't want to gain anymore muscle mass but slimming down a bit more wouldn't hurt I suppose. I don't think it would take long, really.

Honestly the best thing you can do at the gym (at any age) is some weight training with some free weights. It gets your heart rate up, burns calories and it means you burn more calories when you're not even working out (increases your resting metabolic rate). You just have to make sure you stretch well before and after.

I wouldn't worry too much about gaining muscle mass or anything. Nobody 'accidentally' gets big or puts on too much muscle. You have to eat a lot of protein/calories and lift a lot of weight to actively build noticeable muscle.
 
Meh, I am not a joiner...truly I wish I was...this thread caught my eye because I am currently chowing down on vast amounts of pizza and wine (it's red so I'm going to say that's the healthy part of the meal).

My diet is 80/20 clean/junk more or less. meaning some weeks I'm a bit cleaner than others. For the life of me, I can't get walking right now. I wear a fitbit and aim for 7 to 10,000 steps a day. But since the new year began hitting that treadmill at 5:45 AM for a half an hour like I usually do five days a week, meh, not happening. Was going to this evening but smashed the crap out of one of my toes...might be broken might be badly bruised. None the less, treadmilling isn't happening tonight or likely for the next week until I heal.

Screw it...cheers, this pizza and wine rocks and lifting the glass...that's heavy no?
 
Meh, I am not a joiner...truly I wish I was...this thread caught my eye because I am currently chowing down on vast amounts of pizza and wine (it's red so I'm going to say that's the healthy part of the meal).

My diet is 80/20 clean/junk more or less. meaning some weeks I'm a bit cleaner than others. For the life of me, I can't get walking right now. I wear a fitbit and aim for 7 to 10,000 steps a day. But since the new year began hitting that treadmill at 5:45 AM for a half an hour like I usually do five days a week, meh, not happening. Was going to this evening but smashed the crap out of one of my toes...might be broken might be badly bruised. None the less, treadmilling isn't happening tonight or likely for the next week until I heal.

Screw it...cheers, this pizza and wine rocks and lifting the glass...that's heavy no?



I don't know your age, but I looked after myself all my life. I had a 33" waste at 50 and I'm a big guy.

At 60, I learned something very valuable. You need to eat. Regularly as in through the day. I would chow down some breakie at my desk, lunch on junk food if I had lunch and ended up a type 2 diabetic. Now, if I want to avoid more medications, I best stay with the healthy stuff for my six small meals a day
 
I don't know your age, but I looked after myself all my life. I had a 33" waste at 50 and I'm a big guy.

At 60, I learned something very valuable. You need to eat. Regularly as in through the day. I would chow down some breakie at my desk, lunch on junk food if I had lunch and ended up a type 2 diabetic. Now, if I want to avoid more medications, I best stay with the healthy stuff for my six small meals a day
I am going to be 60 soon. I have a tiny bone structure and most of my life would have been considered underweight if people looked at me. In reality I was an excellent weight for my bone structure and my doctors expectations. I was a heavy eater but burned calories easily partly because I am hyper, I smoked at the time and I had a fast metabolism.

Now I usually walk daily and swim frequently and I am careful about what I eat. I don't worry much about the caloric value but I do worry about my diet choice which has become super heavy on the veggies, fruit, nuts, and light on the meat which has to be organic, humanely killed and free range. I eat very little processed food including bread. I do allow myself treats such as this meal tonight. But I don't make a habit of it.

I am also heavily into blending and juicing.

I do not believe it will extend my life one single second but it will allow me to enjoy as many pain free super fantastic days as possible. I want to die healthy not fat and lethargic and full of meds.
 
I am going to be 60 soon. I have a tiny bone structure and most of my life would have been considered underweight if people looked at me. In reality I was an excellent weight for my bone structure and my doctors expectations. I was a heavy eater but burned calories easily partly because I am hyper, I smoked at the time and I had a fast metabolism.

Now I usually walk daily and swim frequently and I am careful about what I eat. I don't worry much about the caloric value but I do worry about my diet choice which has become super heavy on the veggies, fruit, nuts, and light on the meat which has to be organic, humanely killed and free range. I eat very little processed food including bread. I do allow myself treats such as this meal tonight. But I don't make a habit of it.

I am also heavily into blending and juicing.

I do not believe it will extend my life one single second but it will allow me to enjoy as many pain free super fantastic days as possible. I want to die healthy not fat and lethargic and full of meds.



The objective is not extending life, but trying to make sure we can enjoy the years we have left.
 
Low weight, high reps. Doesn't build much muscle, but it makes the muscle you have rock hard.


I used to work out a lot, now I just bang out 60 some odd push ups in the morning and at night, and stretch like it's a religion.
 
I went to a gym years ago but they wouldnt put ashtrays on the nautilus machines so I said screw em and quit.
 
You all are so sweet.

But you've never seen me built - most women don't put on intense amounts of muscle, they just worry they will. However, I do. So I'm trying to stay on top without returning to what I used to look like. Tighten up a bit - change it up a lot - but no major gains are necessary.

But by 'lifting' I mean 'more than what I do now' - I already do lift, considerably (I do a 1 hour routine 3 x's a week with a 35lb kettlebell. I've been doing it for 2 years - and that's why I need a change, not to increase and make gains. I've gained enough I think. God thought it was funny to make me built like Hulkette.)

As for high reps / low weight . . . I think that's where I'm at now, all things considered and brought to factor out with my current abilities. And it's riving me nutso. I just don't want to come to a point where working out is a bane on my existence. I need variety while maintaining the gains I made years ago.
 
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I'm not sure what I want to do with my fitness - but I've maintained the same level of physical ability for 2 years - and I'm sort of sick and ****ing tired of it. I don't have any means of truly changing things enough to not really quit, either. So off I go to the gym.

What do you do when you don't have anything to do? Dunno - I don't want to gain anymore muscle mass but slimming down a bit more wouldn't hurt I suppose. I don't think it would take long, really.

Use the big muscles, your legs and butt. Means walking, hiking, jogging (shudder!), whatever. You're a writer, aintcha? Put your keyboard on a lectern and write standing up. You'll be pacing around, muttering to yourself, just being on your feet instead of sitting is good. I used to write as a hobby and that worked for me.
 
You all are so sweet.

But you've never seen me built - most women don't put on intense amounts of muscle, they just worry they will. However, I do. So I'm trying to stay on top without returning to what I used to look like. Tighten up a bit - change it up a lot - but no major gains are necessary.

But by 'lifting' I mean 'more than what I do now' - I already do lift, considerably (I do a 1 hour routine 3 x's a week with a 35lb kettlebell. I've been doing it for 2 years - and that's why I need a change, not to increase and make gains. I've gained enough I think. God thought it was funny to make me built like Hulkette.)

As for high reps / low weight . . . I think that's where I'm at now, all things considered and brought to factor out with my current abilities. And it's riving me nutso. I just don't want to come to a point where working out is a bane on my existence. I need variety while maintaining the gains I made years ago.

meh, I am jealous.... I would love to look popped...I have a scrawny build so, not going to happen...*sigh* lucky you
 
Hulkettes are hot. I'd much rather see a hulkette, than a skinny chick or a fat one.

For every 1 guy that likes it there are like 50 that don't. But I don't like it - I never really have.

Anyway - I should just care about what my husband thinks and apparently I'm hot as hell when I workout because he turns into a little horndog. lol - market me, Hotwife Viagra.

We've gone a few times in the last week and I ran through a ringer of various things to get a sense of my full fitness level and where i can improve things. The results were 'very very ****ing fit' and 'nothing needs improvement' so I jsut need to find an equivalent routine.

A trainer at the gym suggested I go to the next-up kettlebell and take on an all new routine with it which means less time overall to achieve an equal impact . . . but I don't know - the next up is 45 and I know the second I do that I'll be turning green and there go my lady tits.
 
I'm not sure what I want to do with my fitness - but I've maintained the same level of physical ability for 2 years - and I'm sort of sick and ****ing tired of it. I don't have any means of truly changing things enough to not really quit, either. So off I go to the gym.

What do you do when you don't have anything to do? Dunno - I don't want to gain anymore muscle mass but slimming down a bit more wouldn't hurt I suppose.
I don't think it would take long, really.

being middle aged, it's time to find a sport you can do for the remainder of your life. martial arts, bicycling, table tennis, proper tennis, or swimming would be among the contenders. the important thing is that you DO do them for a long time ... as in the rest of your life
by now you have probably figured out that it is MUCH easier to stay in shape than to get in shape
 
lol

no wonder why authors have a hard time NOT plumping up - it's very difficult to maintain a more physically active life when your job takes place in a chair (or standing in the kitchen as mine tends to do - I'm like a mad woman in there with all my dry erase boards).
 
Well - so I've come into a strange and somewhat frustrating things. I don't feel it - whatever I do - any sort of a burn after. You know? That good old burn from pushing hard and finding muscle fatigue? I'm not getting that and I did quite a bit yesterday. I figured I'd at least feel the stair stepper's after effects. I did 3 miles in 20 minutes. For cardio I like it a hell of a lot more than the elliptical - but still . . . I could probably go to the gym every day at this rate which is the opposite of what I really want to do.

There's one thing I cannot do - because of back issues I've never worked on it. But, my back problems are a thing of the past these days. I don't know if that's a true sentiment or if I'm just at a point where I'm fit without having aggravated whatever my back had going on. You know, it's been 5 years since the old 'it's okay to rely on a cane sometimes' conversation with my doctor which made me start working out to begin with . . . so I think I'll actually make working up to doing swings with a heavy bell a goal. I can clean, do 8's, windmills and pistols and all get out - but I never did conquer swings because of my damned back.

Which means starting baby-light . . . just the motion and the resistance - with the assistance of a trainer to minimize issues.
 
Well - so I've come into a strange and somewhat frustrating things. I don't feel it - whatever I do - any sort of a burn after. You know? That good old burn from pushing hard and finding muscle fatigue? I'm not getting that and I did quite a bit yesterday. I figured I'd at least feel the stair stepper's after effects. I did 3 miles in 20 minutes. For cardio I like it a hell of a lot more than the elliptical - but still . . . I could probably go to the gym every day at this rate which is the opposite of what I really want to do.

There's one thing I cannot do - because of back issues I've never worked on it. But, my back problems are a thing of the past these days. I don't know if that's a true sentiment or if I'm just at a point where I'm fit without having aggravated whatever my back had going on. You know, it's been 5 years since the old 'it's okay to rely on a cane sometimes' conversation with my doctor which made me start working out to begin with . . . so I think I'll actually make working up to doing swings with a heavy bell a goal. I can clean, do 8's, windmills and pistols and all get out - but I never did conquer swings because of my damned back.

Which means starting baby-light . . . just the motion and the resistance - with the assistance of a trainer to minimize issues.

I prefer the elliptical more myself but its personal preference. You don't need to feel burn with a cardio work so much. The whole purpose is to benefit your heart .. well and its nice for burning some calories.
Those are good things when we get older.
YOu mentioned earlier you can put on muscle easily and don't care to. I understand that. yea I'm a guy but I'm more concerned about being fit that big. I can put on muscle easily also. its keeping off the table muscle that requires effort.
I think you are looking for something that will challenge you a bit more. something that is a real good core workout. perhaps the suggestion someone gave about Zumba or something like that might be good?
 
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