I’m six three or four barefoot and weigh 240. I have been diagnosed as type two diabetic for over eleven years now. According to the weight charts I am over fifty pounds too heavy but people constantly tell me how amazing I look for a 73 year old man. I am in better shape than most of the twenty year olds around here, I can push a large SUV by myself on level ground. I am in the gym lifting weights three times a week. I don’t take prescription meds even though they want to put me on blood pressure, cholesterol and diabetes medications. I think I will tell the next doctor who wants to put me on meds to try to walk at my side for one mile and if the doctor can’t keep up then I don’t want to hear it. I don’t figure on living forever, I’m 73 and feel like 43, I’ll take my chances without all their prescription “help”.
That’s impressive
Some countries, who have a longer avg lifespan than we who live in the USA won’t write an HBP prescript till the Systolic hits 180.
People 60 and older, on average, take around 6 prescripts/day.
The mortality rate worldwide is 100%. We’re all gonna die. It’s the quality of life most of us strive for.
I use a recumbent exercise bike almost every day without fail. I have a couple of barbells I use to keep my arms in halfway good shape and those spring hand squeezers. I can still bust off any cap on an unopened jar.
Try sitting on the floor and see if you can stand up without using your hands.