Older and fitter

chucknorris

Kantankrus_Mare wrote: »

Wow Chuck norris!! Thats some serious fitness!! :beer: I'm impressed.

I have to admit to bailing on my step class this morning. Body is still aching somewhat from my first body combat class and I dont want to over do it and put myself off. Thats my excuse anyway :rotfl:

Will be back to my other step class tomorrow night though.

Keep up the good work everyone. I have to say.......getting more use out of my gym membership has made January fly by!!

I tried one those combat classes, boxercise was the one that I did (but it also had kicks),I thought that it was very good, but I couldn't really work it into my weekly schedule (with 3 runs and the odd cycling too), and I was still carrying a secondary running injury in my hamstring which was aggravated by the boxercise class.

I do less now (than when I was doing gym classes), but previously after suffering a bad running injury, I had to stop doing everything for about 8 months and i became less fit and put on some weight. That is when and why I started gym classes, and I also started aiming for 10 a day (instead of 5 a day), I found that eating so much fruit and veg meant that it was easy cut out less healthy food. I lost about 15 kg over 10 months, I'm now down to about 67 kg (at 1.75 m height), so I'm happy where I am now, which is about 5 kg less than I was before my running injury, and I was quite fit then.

I must admit when I first get out of the car on winter Saturday mornings to do a park run in the freezing cold, I do think of the much more comfortable gym where I did my body pump classes at about the same time.

Kantankrus_Mare

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: I read part of that as only doing 5 classes a day instead of ten :eek::eek: Till I reread it.

trailingspouse

Me too!!
And it's reminded me that I need to eat more fruit. I eat loads of veg (sprouts are my favourite), and OH eats lots of fruit, but I tend not to eat as much as I probably should. Must. Try. Harder.


All the snow's gone here now - still flippin' cold though.

chucknorris

trailingspouse wrote: »

Me too!!
And it's reminded me that I need to eat more fruit. I eat loads of veg (sprouts are my favourite), and OH eats lots of fruit, but I tend not to eat as much as I probably should. Must. Try. Harder.


All the snow's gone here now - still flippin' cold though.

What made it easy for me to have much more fruit and veg, I reckon that I average about 8-9 per day, was starting to roast vegetables (I always ate a lot of fruit anyway), but I found that I particularly liked roasted veg with olive oil.

Now if I could just find a way of cutting down my wine consumption, my diet would be really perfect, but then again who has no sins or vices, certainly not me.

MallyGirl

trailingspouse wrote: »

Me too!!
And it's reminded me that I need to eat more fruit. I eat loads of veg (sprouts are my favourite), and OH eats lots of fruit, but I tend not to eat as much as I probably should. Must. Try. Harder.

I eat loads of veg but virtually no fruit. I have berries on my breakfast but nothing else for the rest of the day. I have a savoury tooth not a sweet one

trailingspouse

I agree MallyGirl - I have a savoury tooth too. If I'm out for a meal, I always have the starter but not the sweet!! I guess it could mean I'm less likely to fancy a piece of fruit if I'm a bit peckish.



Tonight - I will have fruit.



chucknorris - I'm having a cheeky glass of wine right now!!

Gloomendoom

trailingspouse wrote: »

chucknorris - I'm having a cheeky glass of wine right now!!

You mean grape juice. Fruit!

Kantankrus_Mare

A glass of red wine on the go here too but I DID manage dry January.

Only problem is , I am craving chocolate as well. Oh well......I figure thats what I work out for.

trailingspouse

I think I've been a tad under the weather. Nothing you could really put your finger on, but last Saturday evening I was exhausted. It got to 9 o'clock and I decided to go to bed (I don't normally even think about it until gone 11). I normally only need about 5 hours sleep, so when I fell asleep at just after 9 and woke up at about 2am I thought that was me for the night. Then I turned over and slept again until 7:15!!! So I must have needed it.



I felt OK - in fact, well rested. So off I went to the gym for the 9:30 session on Sunday morning. Just couldn't get going - no push. No oomph. I normally hit 82/83% of maximum effort, but on Sunday morning it was 76%, and was a real struggle. I came home, had a shower, lay on the sofa and fell asleep again!!


Went to the gym again on Tuesday (I go every other day), and could only hit 79% - an improvement, but not up to my normal levels. But on Thursday I made it to 85%. And I did it again today. No idea what the problem was, but whatever it was, it seems to have went. I must have looked rough last Sunday, cos 3 people asked me if I was feeling OK!!

trailingspouse

OK, I may be asking the wrong people here (as you're all already doing loads of fitness stuff) - but I'm going to ask anyway.


I was in conversation with the woman who runs the gym that I go to, and we're concerned that older people, for a variety of reasons, either don't get themselves to a gym at all, or if they manage to go they don't stay. They do one or two sessions, then give up.



So - 2 questions for you.
1) Why do you think this is? What are the barriers to success?
2) If there was a gym session designed solely for older absolute beginners, run by someone who was of 'more mature' years, would that make a difference?


As I say, I'm probably asking the wrong people here - but maybe you could ask around amongst the people you know who haven't yet caught the fitness bug? It would be very much appreciated.