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[Prairie_Seagull]

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[SheltieLover]

1. I'm with you, Seaagull!

[Prairie_Seagull]

3. HI Sheltie, we were in MIRT together and I learned much from you.

Maybe, maybe I can return the favor. Part of what my walking routine is now, is working with an electrical muscle stimulater. This is contraindicated with a pacemaker. Sorry but this appears so far to be very effective way to wake up older and unused or neurologically damaged muscle. I will go into this more later. This is a new thing in my repertoire and in my view overshadowed by other techniques I use.

[Prairie_Seagull]

4. I love your waving thingy.

[multigraincracker]

2. I live in a tiny house with no room for equipment, so I mostly go outside.

I have a 1/10 mile track on my property that I try to walk or slow jog 4 or 5 days a week. I average about 6,000 steps a day. 75 years old and it's just what I do. Others have their own routine. What ever you do is great. I have a pacemaker and 3 different Cardiologist have all told me the same thing...KEEP MOVING. I never sit longer than 30 minutes without getting up and moving.
On the other hand, I could get run over by a school bus tomorrow.

[Prairie_Seagull]

5. My grandmother lived over 100 years

and almost never sat down, even as she aged. I know you are on to something. Also when you do sit, I don't use the arms to launch myself out of the chair. This is good for the quads, glutes and the core among other muscles I am sure. When one starts this for a time you need to put your hands forward and gradually move your hands in toward your chest. I cross mine on my chest. It is something we all do daily multiple times and should be using to our advantage.

IMO

Damned lazyboys.

[Prairie_Seagull]

6. You will have to tell us about tiny house living sometime.

It's an intriguing idea.

[Prairie_Seagull]

7. Page 2, the 'set up'.

First, I have a horizon treadmill with mechanical additions. Almost anyone can add these additions and if you can't, I am sorry, what follows is probably not for you. That said, I suppose you could get someone else to set this stuff up for you. Onto the 'set up'. The mechanical additions I have added to my set up are as follows.
1, I have added a device called a VIVO universal laptop treadmill desk. Got my a while back on Amazon.
2, I use a 17" Dell alien-ware laptop which is a good puter but not top shelf. It is however a gaming computer which of course haha I have never played a game on.
3, I also use and have nearby, a EMS (Electrical muscle stimulator) here is a link. .https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-get-fit-using-electrical-muscle-stimulation-ems/. More on this later. This is contraindicated for folks with pacemakers. Please check with your health care professional prior to use. There is plenty to read on line on this topic. There is a learning and physical learning curve.

These first 2 items will allow for listening and viewing, music and video of our choice. The point of the VIVO IMO is to bring our laptops up to our eye level or nearly so and our backs much closer to or even in-alignment. We are all looking down a lot these days due to our phones and what have you. In addition our own computer stuff will allow for a more immersive experience IMO. So lets put that to rest. What is to follow will mostly be my opinion so I will probably omit 'IMO' in future.

Are we OK with that? I am not a doctor, that is just funny all by itself. Not a physical therapist. I am just a dude with life long training in personal health of myself and at times others.

Next time, Mind set. (this should be fun)

[Prairie_Seagull]

8. How the hell do I engage with a topic around mindset and exercise?

Jump right in I suppose.

I have had a mindset and the actions taken around it. In my youth I walked into a dojo on a lark and never looked back and except for times of injury or illness never stopped with this mindset. I was 14, the year 1974.

I will jump over much of the ensuing years as this is imaginable. Suffice to say I worked out in one way or another nearly every day since that time. Sometime just a robust stretching thing or running when I could at that age and twice a week at the dojo. Like many I found Bruce Lee very young which effected the outcome of my life in a significant way. Back in the day, it was a very private thing. Not to be discussed except in the dojo really. This has changed dramatically or I would not be talking about it now. I could go on but this started a lifelong love of physical fitness.

I was no physical specimen at that age but became one. Man do I have stories. Regardless I saw then as I do now at 64 the benefits of having a daily or almost so routine that becomes part of what we do, life if you will. Training is not a life style really. It is (to me) life itself and has been for a long time. It is one of the first things I think about in the morning, other than DU of course. I plan my retired life around my work outs. Hey we are (mostly) retired around here and now of all times we more easily can make the time for training. I will use the word training frequently and it is a hefty word but all it really means to me a physical activity with a goal in mind. "I am training for a triathlon" or the like. My goal is life itself and for some of us this is blatantly true. For others it could be the want to loose a few pounds or many pounds. Whatever you train for. It is a good thing and I think this urge to train is inheritant in us all.

Bruce Lee once said that "running is the king of exercise" Well he died at 32 so never got to experience an ageing body very much, so I would paraphrase this and say augmented walking is now my "kIng of exercise"

Next time, the doing.

[Prairie_Seagull]

9. If there are any who wish it.

I will continue via PM. Please contact me and I will respond to you directly.

A swing and a miss.

Thanks to all who have read thus far. Much going on around here.

Peace