The best one is whatever you'll actually do. If you like it you'll do it more often. The more fun you are having the better.
Gardening, you work to eat.
MMA - It's more important to know how to fight than it is to be tough and strong. Learning how to fight is one of the most valuable things you can learn. Swimming - Full body workout, great cardio, great for lungs and heart, easy on joints, done alone. Weightlifting - You want to look strong and fit.
Thanks MMA is a good idea. Definitely a serious consideration especially considering the end non fitness result is the best.
I’ve taken MMA and normally you need fitness activities to supplement it not so much the other way around. But the MMA gyms normally offer fitness classes as well.
Normally they want 3 classes per week and I could really only offer 1.
Normally they want 3 classes per week and I could really only offer 1.
So you're operating a facility?
If not then you are prioritizing other things over your fitness.
Pickleball. seriously
I like to hike.
Lift weights. Whatever else you do after that is fine, biking, running, other aerobics, sports... whatever, but I would say everyone should lift weights. Especially men. It took me years to get my mother in law to lift, and after every stupid fad diet, and every fad exercise craze (looking at you trx), she finally started lifting and now she's losing weight, looking better, and being happier. Humans were designed to struggle and overcome, and to me few things embody that like lifting weights
Lifting weights build muscle, having muscle on your body increases your BMR, BMR is what will burn the most calories in the course of a day.
I eat whatever the fuck I want and still have visible abs. Not that everyone will be like me, but a part of my 'secret' to staying lean is that I've been grappling and/or lifting weights basically my whole life.
Lifting weights has massive benefits for your bones and nervous system as well. Muscles are the obvious part, but the entire skeletal system and nervous system gets huge benefits as well, with one caveat - you need good form.
Kettlebells
Dancing is great.
Rowing is easy on the joints
Two hand touch football, bicycles, niggerball (I know, but what do you expect when I'm 6'2) soccer and yeah I say dancing would probably help too. Me personally mostly heavy lifting and and sprints. But sprints can actually fuck you up, or at least my Achilles seems to think so today.
Any sport that involves sudden bursts of exertion can fuck you up when you get older. I would recommend against heavy weightlifting or running of any kind (too hard on the feet and knees). Kettlebells, Indian clubs, are OK if you start small and work up. Cycling is the best exercise there is for older people, but no electric bikes you lazy fucks. Pedal!
Sounds like kegles are more your speed.
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