Just on the off-chance anyone planning to do much next year. :P
This year - after many attempts and struggles - finally managed to drop under 100Kg for the first time since I was 30 or so. :w00t:
I'm currently hovering at 98-99, and the goal for 2025 is to stabilize around 96-97. Nothing super ambitious after dropping nearly 5kg this year.
Managed to drop 7 kgs since late September (well, 8 at some point) mainly thanks to the myriad of viruses I have caught through my son's nursery :p I haven't been this light (79kgs) since I don't know when, definitely not in the past 19 years.
Back in November, I had to replace my treadmill belt because I worn it out after 6 years of heavy use (story told in the OTT).
I look forward to not be doing that in 2025.
I hit my weightlifting goals of for 2024 of a pb of 315 bench press and deadlift.
This year I want to increase my reps at those weights and drop my body weight about 20lbs to get down to 275.
Maybe? The youngest should be approaching 2 so I might start to get some free time back to be able to do stuff.
I've also got the garage door fixed so thats no excuse for taking the bike out...
I really should.
So how are people doing, pushing back against the inevitable decline? :D
I have a fairly effective routine. I walk, at a brisk pace, around 15-18 kilometres a day. I do kettlebells.
Admittedly, it is not easy to keep this going through winter all the time, but shovelling snow is good exercise.
I've had high blood pressure for some years now, so I have been changing my diet quite a bit incrementally. It helps, and I've managed to go from hypertension to high blood pressure at 130/80 (with +- 4-5 in each direction) since December.
Decline is, as you say, inevitable. So this is more like pushing towards Stalingrad than D-Day.
And there is the cost-benefit of quality of life vs longevity. I already put in about 4 hours a day of exercise and get up at ungodly hours to get some exercise in before work. So I am at my limit.
Quote from: Norgy on February 22, 2025, 04:59:54 PMI have a fairly effective routine. I walk, at a brisk pace, around 15-18 kilometres a day. I do kettlebells.
Admittedly, it is not easy to keep this going through winter all the time, but shovelling snow is good exercise.
I've had high blood pressure for some years now, so I have been changing my diet quite a bit incrementally. It helps, and I've managed to go from hypertension to high blood pressure at 130/80 (with +- 4-5 in each direction) since December.
Decline is, as you say, inevitable. So this is more like pushing towards Stalingrad than D-Day.
And there is the cost-benefit of quality of life vs longevity. I already put in about 4 hours a day of exercise and get up at ungodly hours to get some exercise in before work. So I am at my limit.
:cool:
Wow Norgy, that's some accumulation of daily exercise.
I should really do more walking, as I'd guess there's only a handful of days in the whole year that I equal your daily 10-11 miles of walking. :(
And it is the most accessible for or exercise available to most of the human race, available across nearly all of our lifespan.
Riding a bike is better for your joints. Believe me. :ph34r:
I walk 5 km twice on weekends and do about 4 km of treadmill 4 times a week for cardio. I have bad knees, can't run.
I also do daily weights and stretching.
It has taken a small setback this week and next since my basement is being rebuilt has taken my gym away.
So far so good, I'm down to 97. This is the trimmest I've been since my 20s.
My lifts have regressed, but not too much. Overall I'm quite happy :)
Was going to try and go from swimming 4 to 5 km a week to 7 or 8, but instead I've come down with guillain barré, throwing plans out of the window.
Atleast it can be treated so I'm looking at a temporary setback.
But first I'll get the traitors.
Just it my 200 mile cycling target for this month, see if I can continue to add another 50 miles to each successive month?
For the first time, I really needed a spotter yesterday. Fairly routine lift with weight I usually do without the need of any assistance, but something weird happened on one of my reps, lost power, and down the weights started going. Spotter was on it, and got the bar back up and racked with no incident.
Thank God for good spotters :)
Found this thread out on page 4. :hmm:
Unusually Idid over 100 miles on three different bikes last month, for at total of 450 miles; this was a bit much for me at my age.
Instead I shall aim to do a bit more walking this month. :bowler:
Still lifting weights 5 days a week.
Started to do farmer carries with 90lbs dumbbells. It's hard and my grip starts failing by the third set/walk. But no weights have been dropped-yet.
I lift 3 days a week + 2 days of only cardio.
I'm at my leanest I've been in years (decades actually :Embarrass: ) but I still have some ways to go. My goal for the end of the year is to drop to around 96 kg. That would be the leanest since my mid-20s (and I carry more lean mass now).
I'm down 45. But I keep managing to hurt myself and miss exercise due to it. :(
I've asked myself a few time recently, 'Why am I so tired?'
I think it might have something do with having cycled nearly 500 miles this month, which I think is a bit much given my advanced age. <_<
Or it could be we are just getting old. That is my answer when I ask myself that question anyway :D
Quote from: crazy canuck on June 30, 2025, 07:47:53 PMOr it could be we are just getting old. That is my answer when I ask myself that question anyway :D
Yeah, I only notice when I'm not tired these days.
45, below average fitness (although not by too much, I hope) - is it a bad idea to try and pick up golf as a means of light exercise? :D
There is a course like a 5 minutes dry from here.
Also, question about cycling in the UK: I guess if seeing a sign of end of the cycle lane, one is supposed to get on the road with the cars, right?
Quote from: Tamas on July 13, 2025, 04:32:56 AM45, below average fitness (although not by too much, I hope) - is it a bad idea to try and pick up golf as a means of light exercise? :D
There is a course like a 5 minutes dry from here.
Also, question about cycling in the UK: I guess if seeing a sign of end of the cycle lane, one is supposed to get on the road with the cars, right?
Not necessarily, they changed the guidance for the police a few years ago, my understanding is you're allowed to use pavements for cycling if the road is dangerous/busy and only when there are now pedestrians you'll inconvience. It's basically asking the police to show some common sense taking into account the cyclists and other road user's safety.
An example, there's a marked shared use cycle path out of my town, which then stops and continue as a footpath, I then use this for 70-80 metres before I turn into a small road that then takes me anywhere I'm going north or East of the town.
Otherwise, to avoid that I'd have to cross a very busy narrow A-road, cycle along it for 80 metres, then stop and right turn into the small road I need.
That would be carnage for me, because hardly any of the A-road traffic would be stopping behind me as I try and right turn.
And Tamas you really want to drastically limit your cycling amongst vehicles in the UK nowadays, it's just too dangerous; I'd recommend looking at online maps, but don't rely on the route planning, use your own judgment and then cross referencing that with the online road safety traffic density maps for guidance.
Edit:
This might be one of the goverment pages I mention, though I can't check it as am on an antiquated pc a the moment:
https://roadtraffic.dft.gov.uk/#6/55.254/-5.295/basemap-regions-countpoints
Down 50 since this time last year.
The bike I made up outta spares in the shed, seems significantly better than what I've been using, as I made a small roundtrip up the valley, usual this takes about 52-54min each way, today on this bike and not especially trying it was 48mins each way, which is a hell of a difference.
I don't really know how to measure effort, but it felt pretty easy, all thing being equal that suggests something like 25-30% greater efficiency at moving air out of my way. :hmm:
I suspect much of this is down to having a bike to use that nearly fits me perfectly, so I'm able to put more of my diminishing power into it? :unsure:
Edit:
And thread retitled to allow for use in future years
Quote from: mongers on July 13, 2025, 08:13:47 AMNot necessarily, they changed the guidance for the police a few years ago, my understanding is you're allowed to use pavements for cycling if the road is dangerous/busy and only when there are now pedestrians you'll inconvience. It's basically asking the police to show some common sense taking into account the cyclists and other road user's safety.
An example, there's a marked shared use cycle path out of my town, which then stops and continue as a footpath, I then use this for 70-80 metres before I turn into a small road that then takes me anywhere I'm going north or East of the town.
Otherwise, to avoid that I'd have to cross a very busy narrow A-road, cycle along it for 80 metres, then stop and right turn into the small road I need.
That would be carnage for me, because hardly any of the A-road traffic would be stopping behind me as I try and right turn.
And Tamas you really want to drastically limit your cycling amongst vehicles in the UK nowadays, it's just too dangerous; I'd recommend looking at online maps, but don't rely on the route planning, use your own judgment and then cross referencing that with the online road safety traffic density maps for guidance.
Edit:
This might be one of the goverment pages I mention, though I can't check it as am on an antiquated pc a the moment:
https://roadtraffic.dft.gov.uk/#6/55.254/-5.295/basemap-regions-countpoints
Thanks Mongers I was going to (and probably will) ask you for tips like that. Yeah, I want to take up cycling because I really need some cardio that's relatively easy on my knees (and doesn't involve a pool), but I am not at ALL keen on cycling in traffic. My neighbourhood has some marked cycle lanes which I can use to loiter around on but I recon they'll get dull quick.