This reminds me of when I lived in China, they did state sponsored exercise/dance routines in every main square each morning and evening. It was all middle aged women and older women, and honestly it seemed like a pretty good idea to keep older people out and moving around
It might be anecdotal evidence, but old Chinese women were unusually spry.
If you say so.
Lol
The Chinese diaspora still do this in Singapore. All the old ladies belong to one club or another that exercises in the morning.
Can confirm through a sample size of one family that Chinese women live to be 100 while the men are dead by 70. My ex’s Mom is 87 or something and still gets around fine, super sharp, just recently taught herself how to make and edit videos.
Meanwhile all the men on my Mom’s side of the family are done by 65. It really changes your retirement strategy if you think you’re going to live to 100 vs. you might have zero good years after 65.
What it really should change is your health and fitness strategy.
That’s coming from a good place, fwiw. Same as me harrassing microbet to get his colonoscopy.
Yeah I’m hoping to be more like my 80-year-old Dad - who still walks all over and is basically all there except for hearing and eyesight not so great.
I eat pretty healthy and get tons of exercise, which I plan on continuing my whole life.
That’s a good start. But you also need to lose weight. I know you know this and are working on it. Just don’t let up.
I’ve lost 40 lbs. - from 283 to 243.
Still 20-30+ ish to go. If I can keep losing a pound a week I may get there by mid next year.
Walking/hiking has now been a habit for 5+ years. Lifting 4x a week has been a habit for about a year. I’ve long felt it takes 2 years to really solidify a habit into a lifestyle.
Eating a protein shake for dinner has been a habit since the beginning of August. I don’t anticipate doing that forever. But it’s working for now.
Very common in NYC and Toronto, too. When I used to go to the office in Toronto I would walk through Chinatown and the park would always have a bunch of old Chinese ladies working out with a boom box in the morning. Same where I used to jog on the long park on the East River in NYC.
The Chinese and East Asians in general seem to have a lot of things figured out that Americans can learn from, while maybe not learning from stuff like the 6-day work week.
Like umami is a better culinary tool than high fructose corn syrup.
Excited to announce the newest member of the spidercrab household.
Just buying it means that I’m going to become a better runner, right? I assume I don’t need to actually use it.
I think every member of the local Proud Boys chapter must work out at my gym. Lots of bearded dudes with monster trucks wearing thin blue line hats, black rifle coffee, punisher, etc apparel .
Do they think you’re one of them?
Don’t take this the wrong way, but you’d pass pretty easily at first glance.
Big, 50s, white, bearded guy who lifts. That definitely fits the profile if that’s the only info they’ve got.
Maybe. It totally depends on the program and what exactly he is doing on those 4 days.
I don’t have enough tactical accessories. They know I’m not one of them
Need a bag like this. I’ve never gotten close enough to read what the patch says.
I do chest Monday, legs Tues, shoulders Wed, back Thu. and some core each day. I’m not trying to get huge, just keep my upper body from being a pile of goo. Wed and Thu are pretty functional - baby Rippetpoe weeps.
I walk 2 miles each way to the gym, and I also try to work in a couple hard hikes on the other days, and one day of mostly rest, maybe a 2-3 mile walk.
I look forward to my walk the gym every time, so I’m going to ride this until I get bored with it. Might try to work in one more day of arms and wrists (and core). I’ll post curl videos for the thread to critique.
I’m never doing 2 leg days/week. It’s hard enough to get motivated for one.
Ok I finally got a close look at the patch. It says, “I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.”
The guy who owns the bag is like 6’3-4 and built like a linebacker. He’s definitely the alpha of all the black rifle coffee guys. Even has his queen, hot tall brunette who’s got no body fat and looks a bit older than him.
I see the same people everyday so I see all the dynamics.
I’m good with what I’m doing now. I have no specific goals other than go to gym, walk and get out of the house. I don’t need to wrestle a bear very often so I don’t care about maximizing strength. I see a lot of shredded guys doing the same stuff I’m doing, so it can’t be totally useless.
I don’t want to squat or deadlift too close to the hard hikes. I need 3 days to recover or it makes them a lot less fun. I shifted and did leg day Wed this week and just waking to the gym and back the last two days is about my limit.
The most important thing to me right now is keeping a habit of lifting 4-5 days/week. I always think it takes about 2 years to really solidify a habit. This one is getting close to a year. The walking/hiking has been a habit for years now.
Losing weight w/o testosterone or starving myself and wanting to kill my coworkers is nothing short of a miracle for me at 52. Im going to keep doing what’s working until i get sick of it or it stops working.
