Originally Posted by
Maelochs
I am really touched by the concern ... and really glad fro the advice.
I guess it is time for me to start taking better care of myself beside just more down time.
Stretching and exercise .... the first two things that went away when i got busy and the stretching I never started again, and the support exercises ... spotty at best, which means when I do pick up some dumbbells I hurt myself as often as help. But stretching .... for some reason i went form loving it to hasting it, and I need to man up and try those squats and some of the yoga I practiced for years and then also quit (man do i feel stupid ...
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To all you people still ot there riding and still working at it ... Thank you. I know i will never be forty again .... but I also don't need to think 70 will be a lot worse than 60. The mind is the most powerful muscle and I need to get a little more positive.
Sincere thanks.
Uh, sorry. It will be a lot worse. I had a drop at 63 and another at 70 - nothing I did different, just a noticeable drop. I'll never again be able to touch the stuff I did at 60. Those drop-offs might put an end to athletic attempts to pretend we are younger if we aren't already fit and ready for them. I've also constantly had to change my training in response to the slow drip drip drip of loss of ability. This corona thing forced some additional changes which I thought at first were unwelcome, but maybe the workarounds are even better. Change is good, right? "How it differs from the rocks" as the song goes. We all need to get after it while we have it.