Thread: Geezer Physical Fitness Program

I work out on a treadmill and a recumbent bike in the winter time....i get enough excercise in the summer doing yard work....big yard 3 acres. Lots of trees and shrubs to keep trimmed up etc. Lots of weedeating and rakeing and burning. Lots of spraying. Then there is houshold repairs...pressure washing...painting etc.

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First thing most mornings I get up and walk a mile.

I am like G, in the summer with the yard, beds, garden, and canning I get plenty of exercise. From about the 15th
of December to the 15th of February I don't do much of anything. On Feb 15th I start fishing again. It takes me a good month to get my strength back. I am going to have to find a way to be more active in those 2 months. I have a treadmill but it is so boring to walk on it. Just seems I'm not getting anywhere. I can see where people who retire and go sit down don't last very long. I was hoping my health would hold up and get a couple of years of outdoors in
after I retired. I'm working on 10 years and still getting around like I always did. Not as fast and not without some
aches and pains but still on rock and roll.

Something else that came to mind, years ago I went to a seminar with a motivational speaker. It was put on by the company
I was working for either Con Agra or Helena, I can't remember which. Doesn't matter. He said that the average American
male without a hobby draws eleven Social Security checks. It has always been stuck in the back of my mind.

I retired in June 1998......Had hobbies and business interests and stayed busy...still do...I have been drawing Social Security for almost 11 years now. I still do everything that I used to do...just in a slower gear now. I think the main thing is just stay moving. I will be 73 in about 5 months.

I retired and started drawing at 65 and 10 months (July 1 2008). I'll be 75 in 20 days.

Originally Posted by stormcloud

I retired and started drawing at 65 and 10 months (July 1 2008). I'll be 75 in 20 days.

Hope I get around as good as you do when I'm 75!!

On topic would be physical training programs...