Getting fit

[Wansworth]

If I am to buy a yacht I need to get fit…….how many wheelbarrow loads of logs,going up hill equal putting a reef in the main

 

[Geoff A]

If I am to buy a yacht I need to get fit…….how many wheelbarrow loads of logs,going up hill equal putting a reef in the main

It all depends on your age. how big the wheelbarrow size of the logs and how big the sail is. : )

 

[KeithMD]

A good question. It also hints at a very practical approach, also avoiding expensive gym membership or (God forbid) personal trainers. Personally, there's a few round-the-home activities I've found useful that work on the same upper-body and leg muscles.
e.g.
Log cutting
Carrying bags of compost.

If you get desperate, you could also try press-ups and some running. But not both at the same time.

 

[Wansworth]

A good question. It also hints at a very practical approach, also avoiding expensive gym membership or (God forbid) personal trainers. Personally, there's a few round-the-home activities I've found useful that work on the same upper-body and leg muscles.
e.g.
Log cutting
Carrying bags of compost.

If you get desperate, you could also try press-ups and some running. But not both at the same time.

Sage advice,yes the getting in the car to drive to a gym seems absolutely stupid

 

[KeithMD]

I forgot to mention the two-weekly Recycling Collection day. There's usually three black boxes full of the empty wine bottles left-over by M'Lady and beer bottles from the still-at-home children. After three trips, carrying those all the way from the back garden and down the front drive to the roadside collection point, I feel like I've just had a good gym workout.

 

[Fr J Hackett]

We have been here before intermittent log moving interspersed with bouts of sofa surfing and recuperation won't cut the mustard.

 

[Wansworth]

We have been here before intermittent log moving interspersed with bouts of sofa surfing and recuperation won't cut the mustard.

I live i hope ……..filmed from the sofa

 

[Bouba]

Don’t knock gym work....a scientifically worked out program of exercise shouldn’t be dismissed. Remember, my old old friends, exercising at our age consists of two parts....exercise and rehabilitation. The rehabilitation part is absolutely essential....without it your exercise will soon leave you with injuries and worse than when you started. Gym equipment allows you to work the good muscles and joints while safe guarding the dodgy ones. It also allows you to start the re-education of muscles and joints in a controlled, isolated way and with extremely low weights. It also allows you to gauge your progress. Just saying

 

[Wansworth]

Don’t knock gym work....a scientifically worked out program of exercise shouldn’t be dismissed. Remember, my old old friends, exercising at our age consists of two parts....exercise and rehabilitation. The rehabilitation part is absolutely essential....without it your exercise will soon leave you with injuries and worse than when you started. Gym equipment allows you to work the good muscles and joints while safe guarding the dodgy ones. It also allows you to start the re-education of muscles and joints in a controlled, isolated way and with extremely low weights. It also allows you to gauge your progress. Just saying

You probably are right but driving into town,buying gym clothes and sports shoes and doing mind numbing excersise(did it once to recover from not being able to walk) puts me off

 

[srm]

Don't mess around ashore. Set the boat up to be easy to handle, you have the experience to know what suits your way of sailing. Then just go sailing. Start with short outings in fine weather and gradually build up to completing a Jester Challenge or whatever your dream is.

At school I always avoided PE and games. One PE teacher said I would have a flabby belly by the time I was 20. I'm 78 and still waiting for it to appear. I never saw any point in chasing a ball, running around a field, jumping in a gym or lifting weights for no practical purpose. However cycling in the country, walking in the hills, rock climbing, visiting new places by sailing boat combining with the foregoing activities were all much more stimulating.

 

[Fr J Hackett]

You probably are right but driving into town,buying gym clothes and sports shoes and doing mind numbing excersise(did it once to recover from not being able to walk) puts me off

First I would suggest that you build up your general stamina by walking, not strolling looking at the flowers and clouds but increasing the pace making your heart do some work and elevating your pulse, it will take some weeks to do it from at a guess a low start point. You could introduce some calisthenics again starting very gently and working upwards to increased duration.
As Bouba indicates you should not attempt more than your body can withstand and it will give you ample warning and indication should you try to do that but you don't need to become a muscle bound gym obsessed monkey to increase your fitness and stamina but accept that it takes time and is not an easy quick fix. The normal daily work associated with the house and garden are not exercises to make you fit but will become easier and part of the routine if you decide to increase your fitness and stamina.

 

[Snowgoose-1]

I find regulated keep fit difficult.
I just try and incorporate fitness stuff in my normal day. Lots of bending and stretching at home and leaving the car further away than necessary. Lots of walking too. A house with stairs seems to help.

 

[capnsensible]

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[KeithMD]

exercise and rehabilitation. The rehabilitation part is absolutely essential..

Absolutely those two, plus plenty of sleep. Being an old member of my local running club, I'm well aware of both exercise and rehabilitation, plus the essential rehydration after running 10K+. We usually rehydrate with electrolytic beverages at the local pub. Sometimes I'm so rehydrated I can hardly walk in a straight line, but I always sleep well afterwards.

 

[Bouba]

You probably are right but driving into town,buying gym clothes and sports shoes and doing mind numbing excersise(did it once to recover from not being able to walk) puts me off

Yes….but wouldn’t you like muscles like this guy….

 

[Wansworth]

Body building has always struck me as weird

 

[johnalison]

Body building has always struck me as weird

And that's just the men.

 

[Fr J Hackett]

And that's just the men.

The women look quite frightening.

 

[capnsensible]

The women look quite frightening.

 

[Concerto]

Don't mess around ashore. Set the boat up to be easy to handle, you have the experience to know what suits your way of sailing. Then just go sailing. Start with short outings in fine weather and gradually build up to completing a Jester Challenge or whatever your dream is.

The initial leaving a berth and returning should be enough to get his blood flowing faster. Then raising and lowering the sails on the next occassion. Then combining these two exrcises. Adding trimming the sails in light winds and steering the boat (if he ever buys one!). Sailing a few hundred metres and returning. After repeating a lot of the last group of exercises, he should finally be ready to sail the whole length of the Ria. Fright will then set in as the Atlantic Ocean will look too vast to go any further.