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I try to do a bit more exercise than Earl does, but every little bit helps.
Do you do anything special for exercise?
April 18, 2016
Every Little Bit Helps
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In answer to your question: No, I don’t. Or rather, I don’t seek out “exercise” in an organized premeditated fashion. Partly because my gene pool means I am extremely lucky (my forebears being fit and on their feet till they drop late in life). Partly because my daily routine means I do an awful lot of “exercise” by dint of walking everywhere. Also, if you do take housework seriously, the amount of bending and stretching you have to do “naturally” is astonishing. Not to mention weight lifting.
According to my doctor I am extremely “fit”. Sometimes I think, and please don’t take this the wrong way, that people (to their detriment) are obsessed with “fitness” and its brother “exercise”. It’s enough to make their blood pressure rise. One of the best pieces of advice I was ever given was by my then gynaecologist. I was in my early twenties at the time. He said to me: “Don’t fall for the gym/Jane Fonda craze. Fell a tree instead.” Isn’t that lovely as a metaphor for life to be lived?
U
If you need some trees to fell or to clear off the road, you’ve come to the right place. 🙂
Yes, I try and walk as much as possible even within the house.
Every little bit helps.
Ha ha. Loved this! I plan a gym session three times a week, and, even though I resist, I usually grump my way there. Once in the building, the atmosphere of the place gets me going, and I’m happy I came! If I didn’t do that, I’m afraid I wouldn’t be able to cope with the rigors everything I need to do.
It’s worth the effort.
in my younger years of constant ballet i was more involved with being limber.
the ‘exercise’ of it was neither here nor there. it takes great stamina anyway so i guess it was a given.
when i gave it up i turned to yoga.
less stamina but still the gift of being limber.
it has served me well.
the marine thinks i don’t get enough “real exercise.”
but then walking 20 miles is a piece of cake for him!
i just smile. what works for him works for him.
what works for me works for me.
and i do walk. just NEVER 20 miles!!!
and i have a set of isometrics for arms and neck and bosom that i do every single day. unless i have the flu or something. keeps gravity at bay!
That’s great about staying limber with yoga, and you do walk up and down all those stairs. I used to love to hike, but now it’s not a good idea to walk on uneven ground with my poor eyesight. It pays to be flexible mentally as well as physically. 🙂
Last night my husband walked out the apartment door shortly before midnight. When he came back I asked where he went. “Getting in my last 500 steps for the day. Oh, I also took out the garbage,” he replied.
LOLOL!
the perfect walk!
Good for him! 🙂
up until some daft doctor thought I might collapse with walking fast because of some assumed idea of my heart – I did a lot of fast walking etc. She did say I could walk as far as I like – “just not fast” – so I cut back.
boy was it hard to stop walking “fast” – but after a while I thought that it was actually okay – I didn’t get any less fit, and I was still walking (I don’t have wheels)
then I got into the Blue Zones ideals and realised as Ursula says, you can have a lot of exercise doing regular things etc. That is basically what most Blue Zone people do – they go about their daily business which isn’t about going to the gym or walking fast.
I do walk “fast” but usually that has something to do with the train//bus timetable 🙂
I also have around 19 steps up to my front door, about the same amount down at the back or the internal stairs to the laundry/basement….
I think I get exercise by being on my feet so much
and working physically most of the day.
When it’s nice weather, I get a lot of exercise out in the yard
digging and moving stuff and now, soon, building a fence.
But sadly my diet still is under construction.
I don’t doubt that you get plenty of exercise. Good luck on eating more healthily. 🙂