Health and Fitness Thread

[snubbyfan]

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.

 

[snubbyfan]

I haven't been to the gym since last Tuesday. I'm really looking forward to getting back to it tomorrow.
Planning a bike ride on Tuesday, a range trip on Wednesday then back to the gym on Thursday.

 

[30calflash]

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.

 

[snubbyfan]

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.

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.

 

[snubbyfan]

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.

 

[snubbyfan]

Nice little bike ride today. I ended up going 26.75 miles and according to my Garmin watch, I burned 968 calories.


The trees are just starting to turn. It's going to be really distracting before too long.

 

[snubbyfan]

Nice bike ride today. I had intended to go through the Paw Paw Tunnel but instead, I took my usual ride.
It's always cold dank and musty in the tunnel.
Maybe next time....
Anyway, I went 'bout 28 miles.

 

[Wvcruffler]

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!

 

[snubbyfan]

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.

 

[Lord_Stark]

Thanks for creating this thread, you're so close to your goal, keep pushing, you've got this!

 

[snubbyfan]

Thanks for creating this thread, you're so close to your goal, keep pushing, you've got this!

We'll find out on Monday. If I do hit that goal, what's next, 175 lean pounds? I'm 62 years old, how far can I get?

 

[snubbyfan]

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.

 

[snubbyfan]

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?

 

[snubbyfan]

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.

 

[snubbyfan]

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.

 

[snubbyfan]

31.45 miles on today's bike ride. Beautiful day. Not much in the way of fall foliage but it's early yet.