THE CLUBHOUSE

It seems here in my beloved clubhouse and outside in the real world, friends and acquaintances are leaving the party waaay too early. This hobby we all love is way too stationary to stay healthy. Gals and guys you have to exercise, you do not have to go crazy and start pumping iron but at least walk around. Talk to your doc first before you start any regime, but please look after yourselves. Eating the right foods and a little workout can make you feel years younger in both mind and body. Your loved ones will thank you for it and think of the dent you will put in all those unfinished models with a few extra HEALTHY years on the old calendar. Once again live long and prosper.

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Hey! I've lasted longer than I ever thought I would!! Don't know about
you, but I'm partying!!!

Here... you go exercise and I'll hold down the fort!

Buc Wheat wrote:Hey! I've lasted longer than I ever thought I would!! Don't know about
you, but I'm partying!!!

Here... you go exercise and I'll hold down the fort!

Well Mr wheat i did not say become a carmelite nun, party hearty but all things in moderation.

Started taking vitamins and other suppliments a few years back and found I was beginning to look younger and younger. My hair is fuller and darker and my skin looks younger as well . At 67 I now look 50 at most. Inside I feel every day of that 67, though not all the time. Chopped down six trees last summer and cut them into chunks small enough to haul away. Wish I still had a wood stove.

Gave up alcohol completely over 15 years ago. Just found I no longer had a taste for it any more. Now if I can just kick the Plutonian Nyborg and Black Lotus.

temperflash wrote:Gave up alcohol completely over 15 years ago. Just found I no longer had a taste for it any more. Now if I can just kick the Plutonian Nyborg and Black Lotus.

Stygian? The good stuff?

The more exercise, the more energy to build stuff.

I have a pretty screwed up Central Nervous System (no proprioception in my legs, can't tell where they are). It's kind of amazing that I can walk, but years ago, I was a dive master, played hockey, mountain biked, kayaked, etc. No one believed I had the issues I do because I was in shape. Then my kids got older, I wasn't carrying them on my shoulders anymore, the dog was aging out, so there weren't long walks anymore, I was less active because life moved in a different direction.

Now, although my condition hasn't changed, you would have no problem believing I had something wrong. You'd probably ask, dude WTF? Now I walk the dog (comically) just for survival.

Bottom line is, get in shape and stay there, it's way too hard to crawl back.

Everything what Loborex and Austf is very true..
I go for walks. as much as I can I need to loose 25 pounds..

Luckily (or unluckily) I have a job that keeps me on my feet 8 hours a day.
Doing strenuous physical activity.
I am also too cheep/poor to hire out work around the house, so I do all my yardwork, home repairs, home improvements, car repairs, snow shoveling, etc.
So I stay pretty active.

That said, I do end up spending a lot of time sitting on my butt here at home.
Which is why I still try to get in some sit-ups, push-ups, squats, and stretching 3 or 4 times a week.

Gotta keep in shape if I want to have any chance of putting a dent in my kit stash.

tay666 wrote: I am also too cheep/poor to hire out work around the house, so I do all my yardwork, home repairs, home improvements, car repairs, snow shoveling, etc.
So I stay pretty active.

That said, I do end up spending a lot of time sitting on my butt here at home.
Which is why I still try to get in some sit-ups, push-ups, squats, and stretching 3 or 4 times a week.

Gotta keep in shape if I want to have any chance of putting a dent in my kit stash.

Same here. My house was built in 1906 and over the past 20 years I've change everything from the soil stack on down. Ceilings, walls and floors, deck or the landscaping. When the kids were young, I carried 36 sheets of sheetrock up 3 flights all alone to build my shop in the attic.

When the kids got older, I had them do the heavy stuff which in turn caused me to drop out of shape, So I've gone back to doing the mowing, shoveling myself. I put my driveway in by hand (pavers), I'm not going to pay someone to move the snow off of it.

The only thing I've paid someone else to do was install a furnace (after I installed all the ductwork) just to make sure. That and some aluminum trim at the peak of the house that came down in high winds. They days of going 35 feet up on the ladder are well behind me.

If it wasn't for yearly State Inspections, the local mechanics would never see my face.

I read that online shopping is having an impact on people's health because going to store is all the exercise many get.

Your right about online shopping they only online shopping I do is on ebay..
Going to stores like normal people do..
Other want to become lazy and shut ins. yes there use for home delivery
of things like food and clothes if your old or disabled..

The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. Now that it's cooler though, I will make an earnest effort to get more exercise in.

ausf wrote:They days of going 35 feet up on the ladder are well behind me.

Yeah. There are some things I just won't do anymore.
As I get older, I don't bounce so well when falling down

tay666 wrote:Luckily (or unluckily) I have a job that keeps me on my feet 8 hours a day.
Doing strenuous physical activity.
I am also too cheep/poor to hire out work around the house, so I do all my yardwork, home repairs, home improvements, car repairs, snow shoveling, etc.
So I stay pretty active.

That said, I do end up spending a lot of time sitting on my butt here at home.
Which is why I still try to get in some sit-ups, push-ups, squats, and stretching 3 or 4 times a week.

Gotta keep in shape if I want to have any chance of putting a dent in my kit stash.

But STILL with the ciggies



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Twenty-five years ago, I made a vow to myself that I was going to get in shape -

Through peaks and valleys, surgeries and life changes, I've still held onto a gym membership, which I take advantage of three times a week, I do thirty minutes of cardio, and fourty-five minutes of weight training each visit. This, THIS, is going to be my best chance at staying moderately healthy into the stretch run into retirement and beyond. I'm a type II, but A1C is below 6. I'm a big boy, but solid. The weight training sees to that. I've eschewed the bench press for dumbells, but my leg press is pretty significant. I just need to eat (and drink) less carbs. Booze during tailgate season is my weakness (And WF, TOO!!!) . No cardiac issues, no blood pressure issues, no orthopaedic issues, but for the first time in my life, I AM starting to feel a little tired. I'm fightin' through it...