@Emma_369 you are really doing well! Y’know? I despised PE too. I was not good at anything. My first high school had a 2-yr requirement, so I took phys ed as 9th and 10th grader. Then we moved... new school not so many farm kids, 4-yr requirement and I was introduced to the concept of jocks, male and female. Ugh. But as I was taking ballet classes and riding my bike I was in decent shape.
@ianpspurs of course all your exercise dies you good, even if only keeping the lanolin out of your hair!
Well I can’t currently live up to any of you here, but I have 6 years mostly off because of one then the other bad hip. Excuses schmooses! All that was finished more than a year ago, and time’s a-wastin’!
Back in my 40’s, I had a full time job, two little boys, jogged 20+ miles/week, and did enough weight training for upper body that I had really nice arms. And lower body Jane Fonda routine so quite toned bottom half. Also during that lost the same 30 lbs I’ve lost in the past 6.5 months (and yoyo’d with that for years after)
So now, I walk. Not far, not fast, but asthma and a heart thing have been with me for a long time. Somebody was walking 12 minute miles- at my BEST, I could jog 3.5 11minute miles... so walking an 11 minute half mile for up to 4 miles (steep hilly roads) makes me happy. That 4 miles only happens in one location, on vacation. We walk to the lighthouse. At home, it gets old walking the same streets more than twice each, and 3 is about the max I get in this little suburban ‘hood. At least it also is straight up (then of course back down!).
Today before bed I walked 2.6 miles with most of it at 21 minute miles, which is an achievement for me. I have been super energized since a large supper, and am not sleepy yet
We shall see what chances tomorrow brings. I really have to seriously rehab both hips. Did a good job with the first but it soon became too painful to lie on the other one. And upper body, yes I’d like to do that too. But I ain’t 45 any more. Nor 55...nor 65...sigh. Another bday coming up, too. How did I do all that stuff 30+ years ago? I thought nothing of a Saturday which went like this: go to morning rehearsal (work), do my total 4.25mi jog, go grocery shopping, shower maybe, fix family supper, and go back to the hall and play the concert(work). Go home wrung out. “That was a long song!” if Mahler or Bruckner. In bed by 10:45 or so. 6:30 or 7:00 next morning there are the thundering hordes, all two of them multiplied by ADD, ready to make trouble if I don’t get up.
Ah for lost youth!
. BG went from 110/6.1 to 107/5.94. I know ambient temp has an effect on bg but darned if I’m going to track that too!