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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.
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 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.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 went to a gym years ago but they wouldnt put ashtrays on the nautilus machines so I said screw em and quit.
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.
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.
...God thought it was funny to make me built like Hulkette...
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. .../QUOTE]
Those 50 don't count. People like me do.
Those 50 don't count. People like me do.
Yes - I long for the day Bush the Clown come onto me
Skwats!!!!
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.
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.
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