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Health, Good Practises, and Exercise
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any other meds? I'm on a cocktail of meds. I spoke with primary care once about it and he was like "diet and exercise" or something to that effect. My dad has wanted me to do it.
Today I took a walk finally. Felt good.
I have a TRX in same room as my Treadmill, yoga mat, weights etc.
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Just a 5-10 minutes TRX workout makes a lot of difference some days.
It’s probably the most time effective workouts you can do.
I have a great hook in the roof where it’s placed all the time, and just placed aside when I don’t use it.
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Just a 5-10 minutes TRX workout makes a lot of difference some days.
It’s probably the most time effective workouts you can do.
I have a great hook in the roof where it’s placed all the time, and just placed aside when I don’t use it.
Swimming here for exercise, but itching for something different. Planning to go cycling on our bike paths again. Only problem here in the Midwest is cold and snow make that not practical outside of summer.
Solution (from my bike friends) is Zwift. You install the Zwift app on your smart TV or streaming player (Apple TV, Fire Stick, etc) and mount your bike on a trainer in front of the TV. Run the app and Zwift simulates riding through all kinds of foreign cities, forests, mountains, etc. You see an avatar of yourself while you pedal, along with other riders also using the system.
Wondering if anyone else here uses this kind of cycling app.
Solution (from my bike friends) is Zwift. You install the Zwift app on your smart TV or streaming player (Apple TV, Fire Stick, etc) and mount your bike on a trainer in front of the TV. Run the app and Zwift simulates riding through all kinds of foreign cities, forests, mountains, etc. You see an avatar of yourself while you pedal, along with other riders also using the system.
Wondering if anyone else here uses this kind of cycling app.
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I took a nice walk yesterday. Used the summer style long sleeves to avoid "commiting to" deet/sunblock. I thought I'd do that today again but to no avail. I picked up a work shift for tomorrow.
Yes, I should. I know it's good, but really dislike it unfortunately. Got dedicated to lap swimming almost as an addiction. But good suggestion.
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You all may know from March through July, I dropped 48 pounds fasting. I currently weigh 180lbs. During this time I was swimming two days a week and working out in the gym one day a week. Lately I’ve been lamenting that it’s difficult for a 72 year-old to put on muscle so I called up my 68 year-old brother who has been a weight lifter for decades, who still has his muscles and asked. I told him I was doing three sets of 20 with a variety of weights and weight machines in the range of 10 to 55lb. His advice:
Let’s see how it goes with the muscle building 🤔
- Take protein – I am.
- Take testosterone, as an elder it goes down a lot, and it helps you put on muscle- I started.
- Finally, your weightlifting routine. Forget doing three or eight or whatever number of sets, whatever exercising you’re doing, the first set, do it, go until your muscles are fatigued. Then take a short break and do it again until your muscles are fatigued.
Let’s see how it goes with the muscle building 🤔
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You don’t have to lift huge weights you can work with 30 to 50 pound weights and the advantage over swimming is that when you swim, the only resistance you get is how hard you push through the water and that has its distinct limits. One day when I was swimming Large numbers of laps, my shoulders were bothering me. I got out of the pool and went to a machine to pull weights down with my hands and my shoulders didn’t bother me when I did this. It made me realize that there might be some repetitive issues going on with the motion and a large number of laps. Ever since then I’ve been including the gym in my workout and most likely I’m going to start alternating back-and-forth between the gym and the pool.
Yes, I know resistance training adds to an overall exercise program. But swimming alone covers most of the bases (for me anyway) and is the best overall exercise if choosing just one (as I've read).
I've never had any shoulder or other issues from swimming, fortunately. Before swimming, I used to bike (cycle) longer distances and one day crashed resulting in a broken collar bone. Orthopedic surgeon said let the bones come together natuarally and fuse together. Swimming was recommended as injury therapy that can do wonders, and it did for me. Healing was really fast after starting laps. Pain went away. And from then on got addicted.
But I can see how with your overall exercise program together with weight reduction (fasting) it works well for you.
My insurance company Aetna sent me a stool collection kit to check for colon cancer and other health issues. What is different about this one, is that instead of a popsicle stick to collect a “sample” to be placed in a secure bio-pouch, this kit includes a bucket to take a dump in and the sealed bucket is mailed back to the lab. 😳
I wonder if this is something new (mailing your turd) that reflects some improvement in tech? 🙃
I wonder if this is something new (mailing your turd) that reflects some improvement in tech? 🙃
Anyone have cataract surgery to replace your lenses? It was recommended I get this done, and the price surprised me:
- Basic manual lense replacement covered by Medicare.
- Astigmatism- with laser corrects distance vision- $2695 per eye ($5400). Reading glasses still needed.
- Extended Range- with laser, corrects close and far vision, no glasses needed after, but there are rings on this lense that you see, and should go to be not being noticed in your vision, eventually possibly up to a year- $4495 per eye ($9000).
I recently attended a 1Hr, “balance” class at the Lifetime Athletics* I frequent, and found it to be a worthy endeavor. This is typically for older people who notice their physical balance has deteriorated. Will continue with this.
* They accept Silver Sneakers, a program offered with some Medicare Supplemental Plans, and this class is offered without additional cost.
* They accept Silver Sneakers, a program offered with some Medicare Supplemental Plans, and this class is offered without additional cost.
After reading up about this, I decided to go with the mono focal correction. I’d be pissed if I paid the Extra $$ and ended up bothered by halos or artifacts, or with reading glasses anyway. I’m a little irritated that in the sales job offered for multi focal, there was zero mention of unsatisfactory results.
Comparing Long-Term Outcomes of Monofocal vs Multifocal IOLs
A detailed look at long-term outcomes of monofocal vs multifocal IOLs based on randomised trials. Read now for comprehensive practical analysis.
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I just happen to be reading Replaceable You, which is a fun book about humans' ongoing struggles to make new body parts (no, not for cars!).
Here is a bit from the chapter about eyes:
There's a whole graveyard of lenses (used in cataract operations) that tried to mimic natural [focusing].
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Even the simpler multifocal lenses have fallen short of expectations. Halos around lights and other minor visual aberrations are still common. In exchange for being able to read both books and highway signage, you lose contrast sensitivity—meaning it's harder to discriminate between contrasting colors.
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The majority of cataract patients still opt for simple, dependable, Medicare-covered single-focus intraocular lenses—the kind being installed in the operating rooms of rural Mongolia. They see perfectly at one distance and when they want to see clearly at the others, they put on glasses, the tried-and-truest replacement lenses of all.
So it looks like you're in good company.