Gaining weight and restoring reasonable muscle mass at 60+

A Little Success Story - I said above I have created a daily (6 days a week, really) regimen. I have been focusing on balance because I have a tendency to vertigo, am naturally clumsy, and am always in a hurry - hence I am labeled a "Fall Risk." The other day I was hurrying to move a friend's car so to get her carport repaired - I stumbled badly running up 3 steps, but managed to stay on my feet & right myself by grabbing the railing. Only injury a stubbed toe and a sore elbow from holding my weight with my bad arm .A year ago, I would most likely have done a "face plant" on the top step and hit my knees.
So, no wounds except my pride, not even a bruise.
I'm more convinced than ever to keep it up.
Sue

This has definitely been an ageing journey for me. I'd been keeping relatively fit for some years with training and classes and jogging. But now I'm my upper 70's I just can't keep up the daily workout in the same way. I started running every day and got tendonitis in my hips. That really puts a damper on things. I'm still recovering. So I decided to work on my pullups and started doing them daily. We'll you guessed it: I now have tendonitis in my elbows.
The result is that I finally understand that I can't focus like that without breaks. I think in both situations I got indications that something was going wrong but I wasn't used to those signals. Boy do I hate tendonitis. I've got to get smarter about this. And I'm admitting to myself that yes, I am ageing and parameters are changing.

Hi Rod - Boy, do I hear you! My favorite activity since childhood has been running...hip replacement in my 50's put an end to daily runs because, as the ortho said, "You don't want to wear these hips out too...repeat surgery is no fun." So I switched to treadmills, walking, and other activities. But I still chased my "littles" (who can now outrun Grammie) and ran barefoot on the sand at the beach occasionally.
Now in my mid-70's, my feet have told me no more beach running - I had to try it a second time last week just to be sure...and today I am limping on 2 very sore big toes - I guess my PT telling me I'm not a kid anymore is really no joke.
Tendonitis -ice, more ice, topical Voltaren gel, Kinesio tape and gentle stretches. It takes months for it to go away in my elbow, and it seems like it can come back with one wrong day of activity.
What are you doing for your elbows?
Sue

Rod-
Avoiding injury is so important. As we age recovery takes longer and simple strains and bumps compound to create chronic pain.
I was so happy to realize I could jog until the impact began to aggravate old lumbar spine injuries. I found that fast walking can be done without the impact.
Hazel is waiting....gotta go!

This has definitely been an ageing journey for me. I'd been keeping relatively fit for some years with training and classes and jogging. But now I'm my upper 70's I just can't keep up the daily workout in the same way. I started running every day and got tendonitis in my hips. That really puts a damper on things. I'm still recovering. So I decided to work on my pullups and started doing them daily. We'll you guessed it: I now have tendonitis in my elbows.
The result is that I finally understand that I can't focus like that without breaks. I think in both situations I got indications that something was going wrong but I wasn't used to those signals. Boy do I hate tendonitis. I've got to get smarter about this. And I'm admitting to myself that yes, I am ageing and parameters are changing.

Hi Rod - Boy, do I hear you! My favorite activity since childhood has been running...hip replacement in my 50's put an end to daily runs because, as the ortho said, "You don't want to wear these hips out too...repeat surgery is no fun." So I switched to treadmills, walking, and other activities. But I still chased my "littles" (who can now outrun Grammie) and ran barefoot on the sand at the beach occasionally.
Now in my mid-70's, my feet have told me no more beach running - I had to try it a second time last week just to be sure...and today I am limping on 2 very sore big toes - I guess my PT telling me I'm not a kid anymore is really no joke.
Tendonitis -ice, more ice, topical Voltaren gel, Kinesio tape and gentle stretches. It takes months for it to go away in my elbow, and it seems like it can come back with one wrong day of activity.
What are you doing for your elbows?
Sue

I've been a lifelong exerciser, but now that I am in my mid-seventies, my first question when doing exercise, especially something new, is how can I keep from injuring myself doing this exercise. This has become a primary question because an injury, even a minor one, can set me back for days, weeks, or sometimes months. Questions like increasing exercise become moot and my modest exercise--slow like a tortoise--is effective because it is sustainable. I listen carefully to my body.