DAMN EXERCISE
Okay, it's going to be a bit short today. I had to go to the bank to cash my check today. With traffic and lines it took up half my lunch hour. And it's always a trip to two banks, not one. I have an account to cash my paycheck at the same bank work uses ( evidently, gone are the days that it was easy and/or free to cash a check at the issuers bank ), then I go to my bank to deposit some cash. If I just deposited the check with my bank I would have to worry about how long it took to clear. And I just know the bank is salivating at the thought of charging me fees.
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I hate exercise. There was a very short window there that I loved it. Going into the military I was skinny with no muscle. And it wasn't very fun getting enough muscle to satisfy those that envisioned me needing to carry half my body weight in a backpack. Except for running, which while I have no upper body strength I at least have good leg muscles and running was a pleasure once I trained for endurance. After a time I got to the point where I could run for an hour and really enjoy the free legal drugs my brain was pumping out. But that didn't last very long. Since there was a mandatory physical testing on a regular basis I got to hate and loath exercise. Here I was drinking myself into a stupor every night and suddenly you had to wake up and go exercise after abusing your body and you felt you could die. That feeling trumped the endorphin high. So as soon as I got out of the military I stoped exercising. Never went back to it. I did eventually build upper body mass through a lot of heavy lifting at a few jobs, but I'm not buff. Just no longer as skinny.
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Well, no matter how many times you read what a good idea it is to get in shape for the coming collapse of civilization, if you hate exercise it most likely isn't going to happen. Unless you force yourself into it by other means. If you have a crappy job, such as at a warehouse, you can get in shape. I got into shape by riding my bike to work. The only thing I had in mind was saving a hundred bucks a month in gasoline and whatever repairs occurred by the wear and tear on my vehicle. I didn't want to get in shape. In fact, I didn't think it really had any exercise benefits. I mean, you're on a bicycle. The most efficient form of transportation known to man for the amount of calories burned ( if you convert gasoline's BTU's into calories it is still not as efficient in its energy use ). I figured the bike was going to do the work, despite the several hills I have to force my way up in a single speed bike.
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Now, I had noticed that I was no longer getting flabby with age. My gut is almost gone and I look a lot more firm and trim. I'm not bragging. I bitch and moan like a little girl almost every day having to slog through mud or freezing weather or into a strong wind. I'm merely accidentally in shape, despite my best intentions. What brought this up now? I don't own a scale and I haven't weighed myself for about a year. At work the other day they had a scale on sale at the thrift store so I jumped on. With boots and clothes I weighed 175. That's a decrease from 195 naked. I'm not a girl that obsesses with how much I weigh, but it did reinforce how much fat I've lost. So I've forced myself to get into shape, saved myself money and feel a lot better than I have for about a decade. And, I can eat the fat and sugar my body craves without sweating it ( well, calorie wise anyway ). Enjoy your SUV, fat boy.
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As you get older and start approaching 60 and beyond, you can do everything you did when you were 20, It just takes alot longer ( with one exception, which is now almost instant, assuming the "hard"ware cooperates.) and hurts a whole lot more for a whole lot longer. Exercise is a must for us older but improved with age folks.
At least we don't live with our parents in thier basements. Mine would have a real problem with that since they live in woodlawn...lol
Old fart
Actually, it's a quantifiable fact you can't do what you did when you were 20.
You can't stay awake for 72 hours and get up fighting with a gun, you can't slog a 90-pound combat load through the mud and rain, you can no longer establish large amounts of muscle mass, and you sure as hell won't survive a plague disease. Those are just a few examples. I won't refute you can stay in shape, but being 20 is a world away from 60.
As for what I do to be in shape: MMA and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, a whole-body workout every time you grapple; practice or not.
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Ok OK You are right Maestro, I surely could try to do all the things I did at Fort Leanardwood back in 1968, try mind you...Accomplish ? Heck I have had 40 years to forget how hard that really was.
Old Fart
Easy way to upper body stength.
Twice day with hands on third step do as many pushups as you comfortably can. When you can do 30, move to second step. when you can do 30 move to first step.
Gee, might as well as pick on Jim, again and point out that he has been watching too many hollyweird videos with crack whore bitches...
I mean it's the "diet industry", it's huge and so is the death toll.
And it's not just women who die trying to be 'thin'; dangerous fad diets, deadly drugs, crazy surgery, even starvation...
Exercise ? it's over rated.
"My gut is almost gone and I look a lot more firm and trim. I'm not bragging. I bitch and moan like a little girl almost every day..."
oooowwww ! how cute. :>)
There's the over 44" gut rule where a real lot gets unhealthy, but actually the underweight are even worse off.
generally, eat the best you can stand or afford (and stop that "i go to McDonalds for the salad"; nobody buys salads at McDrecks, it's always a slopper with extra fat and flavored corn syrup ... yum!)
that and putting one foot in front of the other will keep you going for a long time.
Its refreshing to read a survivalist admit they don't like exercise. I don't either! Combat fitness (whatever that is) will always be a complete fantasy to most. The the real focus should on being able to do a full days' (real)work and still be able to come home and do your chores... feeding animals, watering , splitting wood. An honest hardworking lifestyle will keep you fit. Exercise for fitness alone should be redundant if you live right!
Hey, its not just the weight, its also the cardio exercise your heart is getting, as well as flexibility for the joints - its all good. Sure could use something like that in my life - gaining my own gravitational field I am.
Getting older isn't for sissies, and bouncing back after extreme exercise does take longer to recover from.
Good post Mr. Dakin.
Much of staying in shape with age is to simply do the same things you did when you were a young man. Many people grow old far before their time - if you eat crap, smoke, and drink.
I love to brag that I can push more iron at the gym than 95+% of the young guys who go there who are half my age. Why? Because I do it regularly.
If you are 55 or 60 years old and you cannot hike 10 or 15 miles and bench press your body weight it is because you either have something seriously wrong with your body like injury or disease or you simply do not take care of yourself.
James,
Yes, biking is probably one of the best modes of transportation AND exercise...
It's biking season up here in Minnesota again, and I bike to work 3 times per week again, 11 miles one way.
I feel way better... and I can drink the beer I want without the belly!
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