Gaining weight and restoring reasonable muscle mass at 60+
I have turned 68 and my weight has been reducing despite maintaing balanced diet. Recently, I joined the gym to stay fit and restore reasonable muscle mass. I hope I am on the right path to strengthening my maturing body.
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A woman named Carolyn Jordan has a youtube challenge. Most are free. She has a group you can join, also. I think she’s great and have done a number of her workouts. Many of them (maybe all, don’t know) use your own body weight for the workout. Good luck!
Hi Rod - yes, how much is too much, i can almost always accomplish what my trainer asks me to. Should i? No. He won’t push me beyond what I can do, but ultimately it’s up to me to say I need to back off. I pay the price next day.
Finding the balance of how hard to workout with weights (which I really like) and not do too much so I can run, walk or bike the next day, i.e., not be pooped, is my challenge. Always looking for that balance. Since my running distance is very minimal I need to do more biking, or maybe water aerobics to get my aerobic workout.
Fun story, was at ER yesterday (that wasn’t fun) but when nurse was drawing blood, something about my veins he commented, Oh, you must be pumping iron. Glad to see my efforts show!
Btw, there is a fun email I get regularly - Geezer Jock (Google for address) very inspiring stores about older athletes.
Since I post here regularly, I’m 71 live north of San Francsico. Started running at 35, pretty much running only til I was in my 50s, then sporadic weights, swimming. Due to a few foot operations, since 2022, never have gotten back to running byond 2 miles - workout with trainer twice a week on weights, and use a peleton once or twice a week. Would like to get running miles back up to 3 days a week, 3 to 5 miles. We’ll see. In the meantime I do something most days. This website is so supportive and I love that it is nonadvice giving, but sharing what works for us.
Geezer Jock has excellent inspirations from all on that list.
IM 85 WITH Parkinsons in addition to advanced spinel stenosis and have knee replacement in May, I hope. So my walllking is limited as well as standing for more a few minutes. But exercise is a must for PD, so bought some dumbbell weights and ordered and put together a recumbent bike to keep my knee muscles tuned up for surgery. Wish I could gain some weight as PD has caused me to loose a lot.
GAry
Best of luck with your surgery! It sounds like you are doing so many of the rights things to help with the PD!!
@gamatthews03, have you had the surgery?
@rek, how is the tendinitis doing now?
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The magic words "focusing on balance" are among the few phrases that most younger doctors are unaware of when discussing with their aging patient population.
Good luck with everything, GA.
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