Getting old is hell on the body. I experienced another birthday a few weeks ago, and with it a new resolve to get fit this spring.
I have lots of incentive……a long boat trip in which I had better have some upper body strength in which to haul and trim sails with.
And beach weather. (yes, I know to never start a sentence with “and”, but this is not English 101 so who cares, right?)
Beach weather has already arrived here. No, I am not kidding. Saturday I was walking down the beach wearing a bathing suit and getting a tan. Yes way!
I felt very self conscious as well. There is no doubt that Christmas got the best of me.
So, I have been running moderately, using my stepper, walking and stretching.
The stretching thing is tough. My muscles and tendons are so very tight. It took me weeks to be able to touch my toes, but I am finally here:
Ignore the giant thigh thing you see….and the white age spots. Instead focus on the fact that I am able to finally touch my forehead to me knee.
Yeah! World peas!
In my ripe old age, I covet this fact. It means that I am actually achieving something with my exercise and that my body is not giving out just yet.
It also is something Bill cannot do. Neener, neener.
I leave you with my goals to reach for this spring:
Tone up.
Lose that last, damn 15lbs once and for all.
Be able to run 10 miles without stopping (or aid of assisted oxygen and an EMS support team) by May.
Be able to stand and flat hand my palms to the ground without bending my knees.
Paddle out to surf without feeling too wiped out to catch waves once in the line-up.
Dock the boat by myself without smashing a hole in the hull.
Wow, your goals are so impressive! Daunting, actually. I’m naturally flexible so the stretching is pretty easy for me, but as for fitness–my goal is to do 40 minutes on the elliptical 4x a week, then transition to running 3 miles outdoors once the snow melts, and doing some pushups, situps, etc. 2x a week.
I need to lose 13 pounds to a achieve a healthy BMI (just barely) so I am setting my goal at that, which is pretty low!
Wow look at you stretch! Good job! I will be cheering you on over here!
Whoo Hoo! I am impressed!
Great job!!! This encourages me because I am in a weight loss battle as well. I have lost 153 pounds over the last year and a half. I lost 100 pounds on my own and 6 months ago began seeing an amazing nutricionist and have dropped another 52 pounds with her. My highest weight has been well over 400 eeks.
I am now able to walk alot and stretch.
Also I am going to the Cayman Islands in may and I would LOVE to take off another 30 pounds by then.
Thanks for the encouragement today.
Wow, Paulette. That weight loss is something to be very proud of. I admire your will power and ability to stick with the program. You go!! Lucky dog, you, to be heading to the Caymans this May. You deserve it, and be sure and take tons of pics.
Oh, yeah – and you’re still a crackhead.
Woohoo! You go, power mama!
Well done, grasshopper. Now quickly take the stone from my hand.
LOL! Dang, if you don’t have THE BEST memory evah. If I didn’t have you and Shelley, my life before college and bars would be a blank.
GET OUT!
If I put myself in that position, my kids would need to call 911 to get me up.
Color me IMPRESSED!
I’m starting a fitness “bootcamp” in March. I am afraid. I am so totally unfit.