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Here’s a role model......



I’m thinking too of an elderly Jack La Lanne swimming across a lake in Japan, rope in his mouth and pulling a rowboat.

How did these guys do it?

They work at it. Have you seen Cher?

Jack Palance wasn't a pimple on LaLanes ass, physically. LaLane was in another league, from most human beings.

Good stuff .

Sad at the shape people are in these days especially young people around here .

He really was. He was a freak of nature.

Not this over aged farm boy.

Better living through chemistry

My parts do not work as well as they used to. There is also considerable pain in several areas. I have learned my linitations. Food intake reduced as well as alcohol intake.

There are things I should just not do!!! And for the things that must be done, I just take my time.

Not really all that old, just wore out.

Thought I was.

Picked up some weights a bit yesterday., Learned I ain't. 57 here. Can still do fifty push ups but counting on that as my marker needs serious rethinking.

When you are young and worked out daily all was great, lean, and cholesterol fine etc....you start skipping workouts bet periodically recharge on them without much lag.

Those intermittent periods of inactivity get longer but ....you can still do some things when you hit the weights again.

Then you count the days in the intervals of inactivity and they don't alarm you- merely annoy you a bit and you chastise yourself. Maybe workout a few days.

Then...your old warm up becomes your new work out.

Then you get quarantined but liquor stores stay open.

Much starts at conception... some are more blessed genetically than others and some are cursed.

I remember watching Jack LaLane when I was a little boy.

I keep reminding myself I’m in good shape.

Round is a shape...

Not near enough said in this area.

Most of the "supplements" available for outstanding old peoples youth look are not affordable. Unless you are a Hollywood type or at least in the six figure category.

Growth Hormone shots $1000 a month
Hormone replacement creams, pills, etc. from $200 to $600 a month.
Botox shots for cosmetic contour $100 - $200 a month

this isn't considering the foods, and nutritional supplements and in a lot of cases the professional training counseling.

Adrenochrome

Ha!

Is this not a reasonable place to park?

It does help to be born with good genes and I believe I was, but you still have to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

I was raised working in a ice plant, so I was at one time anyway, extremely fit. Also ran, in school and afterwords.
Any of my fellow oldtimers remember Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini. Yeah! That kind of fit. He too worked in a ice house.

Now at 64 years young and retired, I ride a trainer and cross country ski in the winter, Ride bikes (Mountain bike and road bike) in
the summer, and stretch a lot (Don't be afraid to let your wife teach you a little yoga) Work to keep our little horse farm in shape, and
still start and train horses.

Byron

I'm doing better at 55 than I was at 45. Though I just told the wife that after doing a 14 hr day on the farm, I really do not want to do another one the day after. Diet (and associated weight) has a huge influence on not only stamina and strength, it has made the pains and aches so much less, and the recovery times so much faster. Keep the weight off, keep the body fed properly, keep the stress under control, and keep moving. But the bottom line is, carbs are the devil.

It ain’t the years, it’s the miles!

Insulin resistance is problem,, Snacking is the devil. everything you eat stimulates insulin production.

Good post Byron. I too think I got some pretty good genes. I am genetically thin. I worked for any muscle I have. I have always been active. At 57 with 5 shoulder surgeries and now having a titanium ball with NO socket, makes upper body workouts a challenge, but I ain't quitting yet.