I'm closing in on 60 and retirement. Been a jogger all my life and just like getting out of the office and outside every day. Last couple of years my pace has dropped way off, I can't keep up with the young guys that a short time ago couldn't keep up with me! I know one day I won't be able to do it anymore.
I wish I could get into a lifting routine, trapping and outdoor life take allot of arms, back and legs. I always put on about 10 lbs over the winter and loose it when the good weather comes. The trick to a workout is you need to make it part of your life, so you need to make excuses not to do it!

Last year at this time I was doing 200 sit ups in two sets before I got out of bed. I would then drop to the floor and do 60 push ups in two sets. After having my coffee and banana for breakfast I would then proceed to the basement where I would do 25 pull ups in two sets and then to the weight bench where I would press 100# 20 times in two sets (I suck at this). My last exercise was to curl 50# 180 times in three sets. I was then ready for my bike ride where I would ride 24 miles (round trip) to have my bottle of water and a cheese stick and summer sausage pieces with my girlfriend at her workplace. I do this daily when it's not raining from April until November.
After arriving home I would then have a bowl of popcorn along with a hard boiled egg and a can of tuna and another bottle of water. For supper I would then have any danged thing I wanted but it was usually meat and potatoes and vegetables of one kind or another.I will have chocolate chip cookies for desert.
I injured my left shoulder last year and this year I am only doing my bike rides so far. I will be 72 in October. I am 165 now at 5'9" and hope to get back to 157 by the end of summer. I have a lot of winter fat to lose.

Just writing this down wore me out.

Great job MnMan.

Quite a inspiration for your age.

Popcorn is a high glycemic so watch that stuff. Lol

If I knew what a glycemic even was I might be worried.

No worries you made it this far in life and doing quite well my friend

I lost over 20 pounds trapping muskrat and beaver this past season. No special diet. NO QUAD either!!
Weighed at my physical 208. Haven't weighed that since 1972!

Good job!!

Now keep going so it don't come back.

I bet you feel good

I do feel good during/right after trapping season, a little achy- but good. But alas I have already regained about 5 lbs. LOL

At 52 I run 30-35 miles a week, eat lots of veggies fruits, etc. Have ran 15 half marathons, 2 fulls, and will run my third full marathon next weekend in Lincoln and two more half's rest of the year.
I don't ever want to get old or heavy.
Jim

Ratbrain some of that weight was probably water and your body is just rehydrating. Lol

Hope that sounds better.

Jabne good job on the physical and staying in shape. I wished the aging we could control. Lol

But staying in shape as you know and I do to our quality of life is a little better for the work we put in for it

For indoor cardio I like the walking on the stairmaster while hammer curling dumbells the whole time...really gets the heartrate and breathing up. It has a very high suck factor.

Feel the burn Marty. Lol

Is weight loss your goal or staying in cardio shape?

I exercise to stay in shape and that to keep my bodyfat % down. But diet is still important.

Want to loose about 8# over the next month. That will put me at 204#, 6' tall and around 15% bodyfat. the every other day intense cardio will drop pounds if I eat right plus I ruck hike 2x a week and swim an hour 2x a week....lift and bodyweight resistance every other day. Its a pretty complete program...the ruck and swim is duration orientated and the stairmaster is high intensity short duration...15 minutes with a few minute breaks when I cannot breath anymore.. ..that varies per workout and as I use heavier dumbells it is a shorter time before break. Keep increasing as possible in everything and take a few days off here and there as necessary for recuperation.

That's not bad for my age which is 61.

The only thing I admit to not knowing...my own strength

Not bad at all Marty. You are a inspiration to a lot of people.

You have a great routine that works for you.

Getting older has its challenges on maintaining our physical and mental health.

Your routine gives you both as it's keeps your mind in the game challenging yourself to do more.

I always tell my kids the day they beat me in the gym is the day I can't get out of my wheel chair. Lol

A lot of truth here.

Lifting heavy is just as much if not more of a mental game than a physical game.

When I train to bench over 400 pounds I work myself up to it a couple weeks prior. I eat more and prepare my mind.

If your not prepared mentally it's not happening.

It's not all about how much you lift or how many reps you do to be healthy. It's putting all three of the pieces of the puzzle together to succeed.

Nutrition, weight lifting, cardio.

And lifting as long as I have and getting older I think one more puzzle piece should be added and that's stretching.

I did stretch over the years but looking back I should of done more. As we age we lose mobility of joints and weight lifting takes its toll as well.

345 or 350, I can't remember which for sure on bench. 475 or 480 squats. Took me a little over a year. I weighed 212 pounds and I was about 24 years old. Man I miss those days. I don't think I could ever get back there now I'm sure to get an injury or something. Another thing I remember once I got that. I hit a plateau that I just couldn't rise above no matter how hard or how long I trained for. If I was to do it different I would have changed up my lifting in training doing different types of lifts in different ways. But whatever. It was fun

Lots of good stuff here. Sounds like lots of committed and motivated people. For anyone looking to really burn fat, build muscle, tone up, and get some good cardio all at once; look into some kettlebell workouts. I’d advise being in some kind of decent shape before you attempt it though, you can also hurt yourself in a hurry if you don’t know what you’re doing. If I could only do one thing at this point, it’d be my kettlebells. They’re extremely versatile and you can get a complete body workout using them with the correct exercises.

Something to try when you have your heartrate pretty elevated is doing random math problems...this teaches you to be able to think and solve problems when under extreme stress.

I pick numbers off the machine display and add or multiply them. or divide the caloric counter into the minutes exercised displayed on the machine.....whatever....it really works for this 'mental' training.

Marty that's a simple but effective trick to get your mind off of the work.

When I am pushing myself in weights or treadmill I push myself for that last rep or that last mile by not ending it on a odd number.

It gets me one more rep or another mile. Lol