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My whole life I’ve enjoyed staying fit and working out. I’m 60 and still going to the gym though I have scaled my workouts back a bit and I jog rather then run rhese days
That's so cool you used to do ice hockey, but that sucks about your knees. I have a treadmill I used to use all the time. I'd put miles on that thing! Now it's a boredom buster where I'll put as many cat toys as I can find on it, stick it on high and watch the toys go flying across the room and hit the walls and the cats pounce on them!I guess I fall into the #6 category at my age,which will be 70 soon.As a kid I did all the usual sporty stuff,even in high school.Where I grew up we had an ice hockey team and my sister and I both played for several years.After a couple of dislocated knees...no more,and that all came back to bite me with the knees I have now.I walk on my treadmill pretty often at a pretty good clip,and I also raise the front end up so it seems a bit uphill,and I feel good about that.
)3.Those who do it to try to lose weight or improve their health - not always too keen on the training itself
I played a lot of field hockey all thru school,so when a group of friends formed this very unofficial ice hockey team,it just made sense,and it sure was a lot of fun.It kept quite a few kids out of trouble,and kept the rest of us active and not looking for something to do after school during the winter or on snow days.Swimming is an option,yes, but I find myself so short of breath that I panic.I may look into their water exercise classes when they offer them again.That's so cool you used to do ice hockey, but that sucks about your knees. I have a treadmill I used to use all the time. I'd put miles on that thing! Now it's a boredom buster where I'll put as many cat toys as I can find on it, stick it on high and watch the toys go flying across the room and hit the walls and the cats pounce on them!
For your knees, would swimming be an option? It's very low impact and such a great muscle builder and muscles hold all those bones and tendons and ligaments in ,and strengthen them. I'd love it if I found a good place to go swimming
The water exercise classes would be really good. One of my friends has done them and she says they're a lot of fun!I played a lot of field hockey all thru school,so when a group of friends formed this very unofficial ice hockey team,it just made sense,and it sure was a lot of fun.It kept quite a few kids out of trouble,and kept the rest of us active and not looking for something to do after school during the winter or on snow days.Swimming is an option,yes, but I find myself so short of breath that I panic.I may look into their water exercise classes when they offer them again.
The town where I grew up was quite small and smack dab on the Hudson River.Not much for a bunch of kids to do,so we just kind of made it up as we went along.The water exercise classes would be really good. One of my friends has done them and she says they're a lot of fun!
I remember playing a game that was a combination of soccer, basketball, and dodge ball but I have no recollection on how to play it or what the rules were. We used to play games like that and make the rules up as we went along. As long as you could put the rules into words, it was a go. Some of the games got really, really funny!
Even though I'm well into adulthood, occasionally my Mom and I will open the Yahtzee game and play a "make up your own rules as you go along." If you're rolling for sixes and roll four 5's, you can say "changed my mind" and switch to 5's. You can also use math to your advantage. If you're rolling for a Yahtzee, if you need a two but roll a five and a three, you can say "five minus three is two so I win" and take your 50 points. You can also roll a four and a 1, decide 4+1=5, and 0 = 0 so rolling a four and a one wins you 50 points. We get going like this and our final scores are in the hundreds, it's hysterical!The town where I grew up was quite small and smack dab on the Hudson River.Not much for a bunch of kids to do,so we just kind of made it up as we went along.