Hi, someone e-mailed that they missed the Christmas "snow storm" in N Texas so I am posting some pics. It was also Roxies first "deep" snow. Mostly she just burrowed her nose through it.
Missing Avatar; has anyone seen where my avatar went. Apparently it is too cold in Lewisville and she just took off somewhere. ??? Check perhaps Costa Rica or Hawaii.
Oh yeah, the original topic. Fitness after Forty.
With the New Year I'm sure a few of you are thinking about gym memberships and such. Here is some helpful advice from a former gym rat when I was in my twenties.
Your older now. Don't try to do the same things you used to be able to do. Period. Being someone who used to carry around things that weighed more than I did all day long, this is a hard concept to swallow. Get a spoon, sugar coat that info and swallow it. You will feel better.
Now that I have given up trying to press even half of what I used to, my body feels better. The joints don't ache, the muscles aren't sore, I feel good. The new fitness mantra for over forty is now "Less is better".
Don't get me wrong, you still need to excercise, just go low impact. Walking instead of running if your knees and hips are starting to complain. Low, low weights just working on range of motion and light toning.
You want to find a work out that gets your heart rate up a bit, has you move all your limbs, works on your balance, and most of all does not make you feel all sore the next day. If you are really out of shape, you may be mildly sore after a LIGHT work out, but that will get better.
If you have the $300 for a Wii console and the Wii fit package (Contains the Wii board that you use in the workouts. It also weighs you, checks body mass and balance)
That is a great program for beginners and those of us with joint injuries etc.
Low budget options are going to Half Price Bookstore and purchasing several different work-out DVD's. Find one you like and work with it every other day. Try to work out three to four days a week. If you like to excercise everyday, just pay attention to how you feel. If you are sore, rest a day or lower your weights, reps etc.
Dumbells are great for toning. Buy a set from 1 to 12 pounds to start if you are female. Guys, from 3 to 20 lbs if you have shoulder injuries etc.
Mostly be sure to listen to your body. After forty, most of us aren't going to bulk up anymore. Go for being toned and pain free.
Good Luck and have a Healthy Pain-Free New Year!
This was about 5pm Christmas Eve. It was still snowing.
Hmmmm. May be time to take the hummingbird feeder down.
This is Roxie's first snow. Mostly she rooted around with her nose in it.
Wow, the snow was as high as the plastic deers neck!
This was Christmas morning.
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That is how a Christmas morn should be, a small amount of snow on the ground but brilliant blue sky! Not the blanket of grey we have had now for over three weeks!
Someone sent me a wonderful link yesterday of the UK from space! I am going to post it in my blog.... we have turned into Iceland!!
Have a great Saturday :))
I hope that you have a lovely and warm day.
I forgot - you're on a new schedule now. Real weekends! Woo-hoo! See you in a bit....
Yoga... mnnn yes, I used to do that in my youth, but I had to stop. Benign positional vertigo means I can't look up / back or lay down and many moves require you to do just that:((
Hi Sandi, you are not kidding about looking like Iceland from the satellite photo. Stay warm and safe.
Hi Shore, was over reading your Wordpress blog and just chuckling all through the first part of it. Thanks for the grin.
Hi Calpoppy, I definitely think corgi's are cold weather dogs. Wild thing is absolutely energized with this cold snap.
Yoga is a great excercise. I like the solar salutation, eagle and tree stance are the three I do all the time. Will definitely look for Rodney Yee at HP books.
Well, it's off to the new shift. See ya all next week.
My garden magazines are showing sunny gardens and days. So here is hope for sunny warm days to come.
Hope - hated the jacket the first day, ran away the second day - came running up and sat like a perfect Lady the 3rd day LOL
Gomex water 53 degrees - AirTemp - TOOOO COLD
I've missed my trip to Texas the last couple of days. Good to see Roxie enjoyed the snow. Abby burrows with her nose at the first snow too.
have a great day
Finally today, we have a temperature above freezing, so we are dripping!!! LOL
Well, per usual in winter Texas, the fact that we're out of the cold isn't completely good news for me. Now, we're in the rain. I won't complain too loudly, as we can use some rain, etc. etc. But I've got three jobs waiting on sunshine to get finished, and we sure have the old it's-January-do-you-know-where-your-cash-flow's-gone? thing going on. Ah, well. A couple more cups of coffee and I'll go explore my options.
Enjoyed your header, although of course for me it would have to read "fitness after 60". Most still applies. I pondered that business about you can't do what you used to do as I was lugging plants in and out. But I almost can do what I used to do ;-) One thing I have learned is that those super-duper wheeled carts for moving plants around have their own little problem - getting them up and over door threshholds. What works much better for me is to get the thing onto one end of a large towel, and then just pull. On the towel, even really big, heavy pots will slide right into the house.
I had to laugh at this: Dumbells are great for toning. You mean like picking up Pat Robertson and throwing him over a cliff? (Insert rim shot here) No more on that subject. He's not worth the time or attention.
I forgot to look at your forecast - hope you're not in the rain all weekend, too. We're supposed to clear out by Sunday,but that doesn't do you a whole lot of good!
ADD: What is that gnome looking at? That thing right in front of him... He looks like he's riding on the back of a teeny-tiny steer! LOL
I was feeling 'poetic' this morning:))
I hope you enjoy your Friday .... And the weekend!!!
It's going to be a nice day on the northern edge. I may even get to give Abby a bunny chase.
Have a great day.
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