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I'm old , have a headache , but I'm on my way out the door to pump some iron. 20 min jog , Back , rear delts , biceps , lower abs , stretching .

If I can drag my broken old ass to the gym , you can too faggots ! Get off your ass , and push your physical limits ! You'll be the better for it

I'm old , have a headache , but I'm on my way out the door to pump some iron. 20 min jog , Back , rear delts , biceps , lower abs , stretching . If I can drag my broken old ass to the gym , you can too faggots ! Get off your ass , and push your physical limits ! You'll be the better for it

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[–] • 12 pts

Back around 2005 I lost the ability to walk.

In 2015, I taught myself how to walk again.

It was either that or the wheel chair.

It wasn't easy - but walking is valuable.

Like freedom, walking is something you don't truly appreciate until it is gone.

Being able to walk is a kind of freedom.

I'll be back out there doing laps of the local baseball diamond this year, just as soon as the snow melts.

I do laps so I can measure my progress over time.

Probably lose 40 pounds by July.

If you want your freedom, you have to take it.

[–] • 5 pts

I salute your never surrender outlook ! Eye of tiger friend , eye of the tiger !

[–] [deleted] • 3 pts

did you lose ability to walk due to being fat

[–] • 1 pt

Got a puppy recently, now I have to walk. . .a lot haha.

[–] • 0 pt

That's precisely why I did not get one:)

[–] • 1 pt

Did you lose your mobility because you became morbidly obese? If so, disgusting. But you know that- and you have a tremendous amount of respect from me (whatever that's worth to you) for getting your shit together and being a man. I say this as a man who was fat as a kid. I got picked on for it a little (I was too big to really bully too much). Early in high school, I got tired of being fat, tired of being ignored by girls- so i started running. Didn't take long before girls starting noticing me, I became much more confident and thus attracted more friends/girls. All because I decided to take what I wanted. This is true masculinity- knowing what you want, and going hardly to get it.

If you lost your mobility due to injury/illness, and you still managed to overcome this, you have nothing but admiration from me.

[–] • 0 pt

Unfortunately, a rare chronic illness that rather altered my life.

The doctors were all waiting for me to die. Instead I clawed my way back from the abyss one step at a time.

I managed to arrive at a place I can live with. Without a wheel chair.

In the summer I train.

In the winter I shovel snow.

Is it hard? Yes it is hard. You know what I think about on the road? If that motherfucker Terry Fox could walk halfway across the country on one leg, with cancer, then I can do another lap. It doesn't matter that it is hard.

[–] • 6 pts

This. This right fucking here. Habituate yourself to meaningful movement every day. If you're not lifting, you're martial training, sports ballin', running or engaged in active recovery. No exceptions. No excuses.

[–] • 3 pts (edited )

I'm reading this while on my stepper machine. But ... my health provider just recommended AT LEAST AN HOUR A DAY of exercise for EVERYBODY! They never recommended that when I was in my 20s or 30s or 40s or 50s or 60s. What gives?

[–] • 3 pts

If I want a work out, I clean my house, do the laundry, weed the garden and help spouseAnon in the wood lot.

[–] • 2 pts

Try sneaking a little me time at least 3 times a week. Maybe just a 15 min yoga , or pilates inspired routine. If you're consistent you'll feel amazing , and love it
I promise you will

[–] • 2 pts

On yoga- I thought it was a girl thing with minimal benefits. When I was competing in a combat sport that involves grappling, I was having a lot of trouble with a specific technique- there's this tiny stabilizing muscle in your thigh that you hardly use in normal activity. But this technique slams most of your bodyweight onto that muscle as you're driving forward for a takedown. These muscles were burning for me, and nobody could give me any advice.

I ended up identifying the name of the muscle, and started searching for stretches- it's a very difficult muscle to stretch. And take a guess at what I found? Several videos of yoga techniques that specifically target that tiny muscle for stretching. IT FELT SO FUCKING GOOD. I mean, the soreness hurt- but being able to get a good solid stretch in, wring out some of that lactic acid, was huge for me. So I began doing this yoga technique, and after a few weeks, the takedown technique was far easier for me to initiate.

TL;DR- yoga isn't just a girl thing. The study of yoga has accumulated an enormous amount of information on stretching and conditioning various muscles in your body that you normally might not use often. There might be something in yoga for you- maybe you've got a stabilizing muscle in your back that is bothering you, and you just can't seem to reach it with your normal stretches; yoga will probably have something for you.

[–] • 1 pt

Yoga and Pilates can be very beneficial for powerlifting , body building , martial arts , hell even football and baseball. Incorporating some yoga or pilates will also greatly help in preventing injuries.

[–] • 3 pts

I don't even leave my house. Just buy some weights and a jump rope.

[–] • 2 pts

M-W-F free weights and swimming.

[–] • 2 pts

M W F

Mree Weights Fwimming

Fixed.

[–] • 1 pt

Oh look, the homo's back. Where ya been?

[–] • 1 pt

Thanks for the reminder. You’re right. I have a home gym so even less excuse than none. Treadmill is my favorite but I have weights too.

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[–] • 1 pt

And even if you're not up for that..

Just get off the screen and move around a little.

[–] • 2 pts

Just not to the fridge and back, lol

[–] • 1 pt

At the very least you should be doing body weight exercises.

[–] • 2 pts

Yeah... a lot of people have trouble doing that first step... taking that first conscious movement and so it is good to break your routine down into the smallest possible steps in order to know and Visualize what comes next.

That's why that first effort to just turn off the screen, stand up and start moving around... maybe with some cleaning... maybe walk outside... whatever.

That where most people fail... that first step. Turn it off. Stand up. Start moving.

[–] • 2 pts

I remember reading a study about people over a certain bmi. It basically said that they walk only from one seat to another.

[–] • 1 pt

A great way to start getting into a routine for newbies:

As soon as you wake up, hit the bathroom and drink some water. Then before you start getting ready for work, do 10-20 push-ups and a set of 30-50 crunches (depending on your ability level, if you can do more, do it). Force yourself to do it.

Eventually, it'll be instinctive. Sometimes, I think I begin my push-ups while still partially asleep because it's so ingrained into me. I'll be sleeping, next thing I know I've got my feet up on my bed so I can do elevated push-ups, staring at my carpet.

This very short routine will help you wake up just as well as coffee. And you'll see results pretty quickly, especially if you're starting from a bad place. THE KEY IS TO MAKE IT A ROUTINE. EVENTUALLY, IT WILL FEEL GOOD TO SIMPLY DO YOUR ROUTINE. It doesn't need to kick your ass and make you all sore. Just enough to get your muscles ripped up a bit, get the blood flowing, your metabolism moving. Breakfast is also very important for metabolism, so after completing this routine a good piece of fruit and some nuts or something like that will complete your routine.

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