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I am back down to prediabetic levels thanks to running. No meds at all. I run 3-1/2 miles every other day alternating between weights one day and running the next.
The difference in blood levels and pressure is amazing since i stopped the bike and went back to running.
I am back down to prediabetic levels thanks to running. No meds at all. I run 3-1/2 miles every other day alternating between weights one day and running the next.
The difference in blood levels and pressure is amazing since i stopped the bike and went back to running.
Just got back from Anytime Fitness where I worked out for 10 minutes on the weight machines and then did my usual mile fast walk.
1.08 miles in 20 minutes 25 seconds... nothing special for someone 30 years old but it's a good aerobic workout for me with a pulse rate of around 130 after 10 minutes.
Running... honestly, I don't think my legs can handle running right now but maybe if I lost the extra 30 lbs around my gut I could.
There is nothing special here but what I would like to do is go more often as in twice a day.
When living in Ohio I found swimming three times a week at the ymca and then dancing exercise videos at home worked out better than a gym during the cold months.
On one side of my family, everybody has lived into their 90s and 100s without ever having heard of a gym :-), but all of them seemed to have a passion for long walks, which I have as well. When I am at home (meaning all the time in the past year), I pace up and down all day, usually with the book I am reading, which I guess qualifies as a long walk too. I have never been to any gym since I graduated from high school. But I have started doing the plank exercise recently since the lower half of my legendary flat abdomen has started to pop out ever so slightly, like I guess in someone in early pregnancy (though I have never been pregnant either, and don't believe I am now at 61 :-). I think the stomach-popping matter could be due to posture/bone changes, due to age-related lumbar hyperlordosis of the spine, but I'll try and see if planking can do something about it... it would be pretty shocking to lose my figure, I never expected that!!
After a heart attack at age 75, my father stopped driving a taxi 12 hours a day every day and stopped working, was walking two miles a day every day until cancer at age 87 got him. The walking was really valuable. He was going to live with me but "there's no where to go", he'd walk every day to the supermarket a mile away to get one item. There were woods and a lake and lovely surroundings but he wanted a destination "I'm a city boy." Also wanted to walk to the train to Atlantic City to gamble what little money he had left after paying his small bills. He couldn't afford a car and eyesight prevented driving anyway. I do think the walking and perfect eating after the heart attack gave him many more years of healthy life.
Sadly Riverbird has passed away, some time ago. This thread is very old.
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