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Why don't more people do it? For 3 days a week, one hour a day, you can make drastic improvements in physical fitness, mental acuity, and general psychological health.

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I did...until about 3 years ago. Work, life got in the way. I miss it. When I was younger I was a gym rat and steady at the iron. Lifting is great for you body and you mind, tremendous health benefits.

You bring back memories of a time when my workouts would leave me so spent that when I stopped at 7/11 for a giant diet coke after leaving the gym (I always did that) my arms would shake so much I had to use to hands. I loved that feeling!

OK. I'm going to start again next week. You got me thinking about it now. Monday I'll start the old man's routine, slow and low. LOL!

Does getting up to go to the 'fridge for another beer, count? I mean, unless its half-time, in which case the Little Lady gets her exercise by fetching it for ya. Uh Oh.


By the way, a much quicker way to get that feeling is to stick a wet finger in a lightbulb socket.
Yours in trending-the-thin-line, mirth,
Issodhos
P.s. Caveat to the more impressionable: DO NOT ACTUALLY TRY THIS. IT CAN CAUSE YOU TO GO SERIOUSLY AND PERMANENTLY "TOES UP".

That's been the problem, Isso. The older I get the more thrills I get from a soft chair and beer. Hell, the light socket might be a quick workout.

Awesome! You're doing yourself a great service


Naughty naughty.... soda, even if diet, is bad! Acid on the teeth, empty calories, etc. A protein within 30 minutes of a workout is the best bet. Buy some sort of protein powder and a shaker; fill the shaker with a serving of the powder. Immediately after your workouts, fill up the shaker with water from a fountain there at the gym and drink up the goodness. Then, maybe, you can get that diet soda as a treat
I love that post-workout shaking feeling as well!

Also, alcohol suppresses your immune system by destroying antigen receptors. And the empty calories are awful. Stop that! Drink a good beer once in a while, but by no means every day or every other day. Don't drink on the days that you lift, you're just undoing all the good you did yourself!

I wonder where rick is lately.

Oh, probably at the gym.

I'll be starting my weight training again next week, I believe. My shovel, hoe, and wheelbarrow are ready. All's I need is to borrow my friend's pickup truck so I can get down to the mulch yard and buy a few truckloads of weight.

Does going from the horizontal position to the vertical count?

I bike, but have trouble keeping up with my somewhat younger friend. As I outweigh him by some 50 pounds, is it, or is it not reasonable to ask him him to carry five 10 pound bags of potatoes when we race? I am willing to forgo the 12 year age differential, but believe that weight handicapping should be perfectly legal.

This is a matter of pride... and, of course, ego.

Am awaiting decision from: USACYCLING

Cycling! Awesome. I do a good bit of that too. I am the program director for the Badlands Cycling Association. We do bicycle tours through the rural area in the Mondak region.

LOL the sack of potatoes.

What kind of bike do you have, itstarted?

Cycling is tough work. I ride a bike but that isn't cycling.

Running or cycling is very boring to me. At the same time when I used spend time at the gym in the weight room, runners and cyclist used to give me a load of grief for doing something ploddingly boring. Weird, innit? To each his own.

Road bike is a 1978 Motobecane Mirage (French made). I never met anyone who had this bike who didn't wish they had it back. Weinmann brakes, Gentleman wheels, Suntour gearing, Stem shifters, solid as a rock, and built like a watch. Teeny bit heavy, but a great ride.

The mountain bike is a 1990 Offroad 452...unusual bike with Girvan elastomer headset, and elastomer rear suspension, with proflex fork... an unusual bike that was a fore runner of the proflex line, which later, sadly, became the K2. They only made 174 of the model 452, I think... Took the industry about 6 years to catch up.

I love both bikes, but don't really ride as much as I should, though I take a 30 mile road ride every week and ride about 5 -10 miles/day. It's enuff for a 73 year old... though I have a friend who is 84 and puts me to shame.

IMHO, though I was a swimmer, bike riding is a great way to stretch out muscles, and exercise, without the shock or damage to the cartilage and bone... This becomes more important as we get older.

And what do you ride?