Posted on 05/30/2025 4:01:55 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
As we age, our balance, stability and coordination can decline. One way to counteract this is to build strength with functional workouts.
Functional exercises mimic everyday actions and strengthen the muscles we use regularly, which can help us move well for longer.
And when we keep our bodies strong and agile, we are less prone to injury and chronic health conditions.
But this doesn’t mean spending hours in the gym or doing complicated workouts.
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“Bicep curls?”
Do heavy (for you) sets of 6 with a barbell.
You’ll feel it in places beyond biceps.
Good on you for that exercise routine,
Before I got a compound fracture of my right wrist that bone specialist MD fixed with a metal plate and three screws in my wrist, making driving too painful, I did a 15-minute mile on the gym treadmill 5 days a week and used other equipment to build arm strength. I’m 88 and slowly , and I hope surely, building up to that again with walks around the ‘hood and lifting weights I bought at AMZ.
Always hunting Japs?
I’m the same age.
I break the resistance training into three days through the week: Chest/Triceps...Biceps/Back...Legs and Deadlifts.
I’m often still a little sore by the time they roll around again the following week. So I lighten the overall load for that week, but still do the work.
You prefer lighter, full body workouts 2x week?
Mark!
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Thanks!
gardening and yardwork
If you put the beer on a shelf over your lounge chair, you can stick a tube in it and allow gravity to feed you. No need for arms at all. LOL
Tes, balance is important.
Here’s a little secret:
Each time you get up or sit down, concentrate on your heels and mentallyy say, “Heels down in each and every movement.”
I learned that decades ago and people often remark on the great way I move. Straight back, and I don’t lean over to sit down or stand up. Just concentrate on heels.
I mounted two horizontal Olympic barbell racks, 4 positions, on either side of a door frame, a metal bar spanning them covered with stretchy medical tape.
Depending upon how frisky I feel, I choose the angle and crank out pushups with straight wrists to exhaustion.
Then a few dozen full rolls on the gymnast bar in the great room.
PS One half of these claims is true
That’s cheating and a person needs a workout for health’s sake.
Bi= two. You can use a hammer bar to work your side biceps.
I don’t care so much about muscle hypertrophy at my age, but I don’t want my lower arm to keep waving when wearing short sleeves and I wave goodbye to people, then stop.
Two words: Yard Work.
I don’t think so. Squats, yes. Deadlifts, yes. Pullups and pushups. That will keep you strong and fit, when combined with good hard work and hikes.
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I’d add crunches and push ups
And in the basement find a pipe or i beam and do pull ups
Lastly spend some time balancing on each foot in varying poses
Ping
If you can get up out of a chair, use the chair and sit down, and stand up.
Also pick up a cold laser and use it on your ligaments to help repair them.
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