How much exercise?

[hanadr]

I do Aqua mobility 45 minutes twice a week and at least 2 x Health walks 1 to 11/2 hours at a time. Some are up hill and quite hard. I'm the slowest there, but don't get totally left behind.
At my advanced age, 61, it's rare still to have a Mum who worries, but mine is sure that I'm doing too much. It doesn't feel like it to me, but does anyone know how much an overweight 61 year old should be doing? I keep hoping to be lss overweight, but it's so frustratingly slow.

 

[hanadr]

I'm already low carb( less than 30 most days) and have lost 2 1/2 stone. I need to lose 2 more. I can now walk up Lardon Chase in the Thames Valley, Berkshire, which rises 75 metres in 300 or so and is STEEEEEP. I need to stop a couple of times on the way up though.

 

[Jenny]

I reduced my calories (and carbohydrate intake) quite substantially after being diagnosed but found that my weight hardly shifted - until I started a daily exercise routine that involved walking at a brisk pace (2 miles in around 20 minutes which is not bad for 63) for about 6 miles. Weight tumbled. Ancient Aunt then had a stroke and my routine changed because I made daily visits to the hospital (round trip of 80 miles) to visit her. Weight loss slowed, then stopped, then started to reverse despite no increase in the calorie or carb content of the dietary regime. Aunt moved from hospital in July to a rehab centre then more recently to a nursing home. Once I was sure that she had settled in the nursing home - 3 months - I started visiting every other day. Back to exercise every other day. One month later the weight is now coming down again and I have almost reached the level I had achieved by last February.

 

[hanadr]

I do 45 mins aqua exercise twice weekly and Health walks twice, including up Lardon Chase and I volunteer to escort walks for Learning disabled folks too. I walk whenever I need to go anywhere up to a mile. am going on an organised walk in the hills above Henley on Thames tomorrow as second leader. I'm trained and qualified.Have even got a uniform.( lets hope it doesn't rain.) I'm 61 and had a stroke in 2003

 

[padulica]

Hi,
I am inclined to agree about the mistaken belief that we loose weight with excercise. I walk my dog for 30 minsx 5 days out of 7, play badminton x3 times per week, Gym and swim for 1hr 30 mins x1 a week and aquarobics 45 mins x1 a week...... I also have an active job and family.
I only started to loose weight in June when I started my managed carb diet,I was doing all the same excercise but could not seem to loose weight.

 

[Cameraman]

For the exercise, I would say if your on your own then pace yourself to the distance without having to take regular rest breaks. Walk at brisk pace so you increase your heart rate, become warm without overheating and enough to leave you slightly breathless. As you have had a stroke, I'm not sure to be honest the best thing to advise, other than being your own judge of whats right for you. What I do know from personal experiance is the more you exercise the more fuel (food/liquid) you will need to replenish your body. A sign of fitness is not always what you can achieve, but how soon your body (and heart rate/pulse) return to normal after physical activity.

 

[Trinkwasser]

I'm already low carb( less than 30 most days) and have lost 2 1/2 stone. I need to lose 2 more. I can now walk up Lardon Chase in the Thames Valley, Berkshire, which rises 75 metres in 300 or so and is STEEEEEP. I need to stop a couple of times on the way up though.

Don't forget to walk back down again, walking downhill appears to gave different benefits from walking uphill. Then you can rename it Lardoff Chase.

For me it was the opposite way round, the high carb diet which messed up my BG made me too knackered to exercise and made me put on weight, once I got the BG back down exercise became an order of magnitude easier again. The weight came back off on its own so sorry I can't help you with that one. Sometimes eating more calories at least for a while may restart the process, seems it convinces your body you're no longer starving so can let go of some of the stored fat.

 

[Cameraman]

Don't forget to walk back down again, walking downhill appears to gave different benefits from walking uphill. Then you can rename it Lardoff Chase.

Funnily enough walking downhill can cause more problems, mainly on the knee joints and heels. The use of the popular ski type poles can help here by reducing a little of the strain. But as with any exercise care and moderation and let your body be the judge.

 

[Trinkwasser]

Don't forget to walk back down again, walking downhill appears to gave different benefits from walking uphill. Then you can rename it Lardoff Chase.

Funnily enough walking downhill can cause more problems, mainly on the knee joints and heels. The use of the popular ski type poles can help here by reducing a little of the strain. But as with any exercise care and moderation and let your body be the judge.

Yes good point, it also gives different problems as well as different benefits!