Health and Fitness Thread

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I have this thread on some other forums I'm on.
For me it helps to keep me accountable by posting on my improvements and setbacks.
Others post giving advice and encouragement and posting their goals and results.
In 2015, I weighed over 230 pounds and my bodyfat percentage was probably in the 30's. My wife and I joined the Y for resistance training and cardio.
In 2020 we joined another gym that does fitness assessments and by then I was 140 pounds and 14% bodyfat.
I had some baggy skin and decided to try to fill it with some lean mass.
I was tested in June and I was 166.5 pounds and 10.2% bodyfat.
At 5'8" that makes me 4 pounds overweight and at 62 years of age that makes me lean for somebody half my age.
My next goal is to hit 170 pounds and bodyfat in the low double digits by the first day of Autumn.
This morning I weighed 169.6 pounds. We'll see if I make my goal later this month.
 
I'm not a regular gym member but I've been doing a fair amount of PT since a medical issue in June 2024. I had 2 weeks of PT and OT while in a therapy hospital and had outpatient PT for about 14 weeks afterwards. It all helped immensely.

That said it is a good thing to have someone to work out with or report to, such the therapist, when at least starting. It's easy for most of us to blow things off for whatever reason and then you get out of the habit of your chosen physical endeavors. Once the habit is established you can have a notebook/diary to record your efforts and what may have changed or what you may have overlooked or missed. For me I've slacked off on walking, need to get back to it pronto, especially with hunting coming up!

The one thing I've not done is join a gym, there's one close enough so I can't use that as an excuse.
 
30calflash said:
I'm not a regular gym member but I've been doing a fair amount of PT since a medical issue in June 2024. I had 2 weeks of PT and OT while in a therapy hospital and had outpatient PT for about 14 weeks afterwards. It all helped immensely.

That said it is a good thing to have someone to work out with or report to, such the therapist, when at least starting. It's easy for most of us to blow things off for whatever reason and then you get out of the habit of your chosen physical endeavors. Once the habit is established you can have a notebook/diary to record your efforts and what may have changed or what you may have overlooked or missed. For me I've slacked off on walking, need to get back to it pronto, especially with hunting coming up!

The one thing I've not done is join a gym, there's one close enough so I can't use that as an excuse.
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I have a degenerative peripheral motor nerve condition called Multifocal Motor Neuropathy. There's no meds, treatments or cure and very nearly put me in an electric scooty chair. According to my neurologist the only thing that'll help is eating healthy, resistance training and cardio.
Took me most of a year to relearn to walk using the muscles in my legs that still work, joined a gym and I have been going at it on a regular basis since 2015.
It's become a lifestyle for me.
 
Really good workout today. Basically, I just picked up from where I left off 6 days ago. I did manage to resist increasing my workout weights until I got to my last set of preacher curls and there I added just 5 pounds.
It'll be interesting to see how sore I am tomorrow.
It may be a bike day or a recovery day.
Or a recovery on the bike day.
Definitely gonna need my protein.
 
I have been off a couple weeks traveling and working but last 2 days back at it. I alternate treadmill (hiking) and a rowing machine. I use the iFIt application for them and have gotten 176 workouts in so far 2025. I’m short, pudgy, and 55 but have pretty decent endurance. Always good to be in some sort of shape before hunting season. Also a physician and every single year I admit hunters with their first myocardial infarction. My best advice is to stay in shape all season and to quit smoking if you’re a smoker. Cigarettes and family history combine can make for a bad hunting day!
 
At my last fitness reassessment at the gym, my goal was 165 pounds and a low double digit bodyfat percentage. I was 166.5 pounds and 10.2% bodyfat.
After that I made a new goal of 170 pounds and low double digit bodyfat.
Today was my last workout before my next reassessment on Monday.
This morning I was 171.6 pounds. That makes me 9 pounds overweight.
We'll find out on Monday what that extra weight consists of.
 
Nice day for a hike on my favorite mountain trail. It goes up and over a mountain ridge with an increase of 362 feet in elevation in one mile.
Lisa and I would hike up and over and back whenever the weather cooperated and sometimes when it didn't but we went anyway.


Today, I went 5.56 miles and it got up to 94 degrees.
 
Today was reassessment day at the gym and the results are in.
In June I was 166.5 pounds and 10.2% bodyfat.
My goal for this time was 170 pounds and low double digit bodyfat.
I tested out at 170.6 pounds and 12.1% bodyfat. According to the BMI charts that makes me overweight by 8 pounds and my bodyfat in the lean range for somebody half my age.
I consider that goal obtained.
Maybe 175 lean pounds by December?
 
I had intended to go out for a nice bike ride today but they were calling for rain showers on and off all day. So instead I just rode my home spin bike in my living room.


Since it's supposed to rain all day tomorrow, I plan to go for a nice uphill walk on Lisa's home elliptical.
 
I gotta admit that building measurable muscle mass is kinda fun but injuries aren't.
So, I decided to take it easy on pushing myself and gear my workouts more to the real reason I started going to the gym in the first place.
It's to battle my peripheral motor nerve condition to try to retain mobility and reduce muscular atrophy.
Injuries by trying to push myself too hard are counter to my goals.
So at the gym today, I reduced some of my workout weights and concentrated more on doing proper reps without straining myself too hard.
I still got a pretty good workout and a good pump.
 
Today's workout didn't go quite as intended.
When I got to the gym, I saw a sign saying that due to a water pressure issue the bathrooms are closed today.
The thing is that there is no medication for my degenerative peripheral motor nerve condition but I did find some over the counter fitness supplements that do help by temporarily increasing my peripheral blood flow. I try to time taking them so they kick in when I get to or shortly before I get to the gym.
The only other thing that helps with my condition is resistance training, cardio and healthy eating.
I can tell when the supplements kick in because they make me havta pee, lots and frequently for about an hour.
Not a condition compatible with closed bathrooms.
Anyway, I decided to go home for a home workout.
One good thing that came out of the Covid-19 shutdowns is that Lisa and I got some home equipment for a good workout when the gyms closed.
Still, I did get my grocery shopping done, some stuff dropped off at Goodwill and got a pretty good home workout.
 
Weighed myself this morning and I weigh 173 pounds. My next goal was 175 lean pounds by March, now I decided to just keep doing what I'm doing and see where it goes as long as I stay lean.
Who knows, maybe 180 lean pounds by next summer?
I felt really good at the gym today and got a grrreat workout.
The thing is, when I started at this new gym in 2020, I weighed 140 pounds. My goal then was to get up to 155 lean pounds.
I'm planning on some home cardio on Lisa's elliptical tomorrow.
 
It is the little daily progress that leads to big results
Thanks for the consistency and tips @snubbyfan
Keep em coming!
 
Yes to the above. Wish I had the time and stamina to do half of what you do.

I've been walking more, mostly evenings when dark but it's a quiet area and I saw a few others doing the same last night. My night route is about a mile and a half with some elevation so it's a fair stroll. As I did it I began thinking of extending as there's many intersecting neighborhood streets in that locale.

When it's daylight there's a decent trail that's maintained that i like to hit, 3.5 miles total, but it's usually a1.5 miles there, then off to or back to work.
 
On today's workout, I decided to try doing front rows with the cambered bars for shoulders instead of overhead presses at the Smith machine.
Since it was my first time doing a new to me movement, I started with at 20 eventually working my way up to 60 pounds.
As long as I didn't try to raise the bar too high, I didn't feel pain in my right shoulder.
We'll see how that works.
The rest of my workout went very well and I got a pretty good pump.
 
I started doing upright rows instead of overhead presses for shoulders at the beginning of this month. On today's workout, it seemed a bit easier so I grabbed the next bar heavier.
So far it seems to be working and not causing any extra pain in my bad shoulder.
Tomorrow it's home cardio on my home spin bike.
 
Being an old guy I'm kinda limited to walking, got in a mile and a half last night, including some elevation. That's good be cause I'll be hitting the woods starting tomorrow, where i'll get a little more in.
 

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