Risks due to loss of strength in old age

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"A young fit 72 yrs young"

Well keep up with the flavanoids if you don't want to grow old. It is a scientific fact

"Three new human studies evaluating dietary intake patterns of various types of flavonoids showed that higher intake of flavonoids was associated with better health and a longer life".

http://www.wellnessresources.com/he...prevention_anti-aging_benefits_of_flavonoids/

Now the 50 meters of yellow rope. Alan Lucas described his set-up on page 198 of his book "Just Cruising" and he had it hooked up to his tiller and self steering. (Alan Lucas probably wrote 20 books on cruising. He once sailed from Australia to Europe and back )
 
coopec said:
BTW, I usually sail single handed, and have a folding stern ladder rigged so that I can reach and deploy it from the water. The only problem now is to work out how I would catch the boat up: I cant swim at 5 knots any more....
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An Australian sailor with 40 years experience (Alan Lucas) said he always towed a long line when he was single handling. Of course the idea was that if he went overboard he could swim to the line and haul himself on board. (I think he may have even had the line attached to the tiller.)[/QUOTE]

Have youever been dragged through the water at 5kts? You will have drowned befroe you get back aboard. You would hve to have some sort of kill cord arrangement on the autohelm to stop the boat on MOB
 
oklharry

In his book on page 198/199 he has diagrams and explains different methods of bring the yacht to a halt.(not a very nautical way of putting it)
 
An interesting thread.....It's true, once over 50 the conversation in ones peer group discussing bodies and their ills goes up exponentially.

Age: Being a post war babe leaves me now wondering whether to exercise a little more or less.

We have to remember us old 'sportsmen and women', that there is a difference between being healthy and being athletically fit.

Exercise: More and it can help any heart/lung issues both possibly now or in the future, keep us supple/flexible, able to extend and

flex that old body, give the strength to continue many of the activities without strain. Less and it eases the stress and strain on

a skeletal framework that's crumbling around the edges. So, a 'balancing act' for many I guess.

Having just left the physio' advising me on shoulder rehab', she agrees.
A little bit of discomfort but not continued pain she advises, in most areas of exercise for a healthy body. A generalisation she said but a good basis to start from.

Diet: is definitely vital to both assisting good or poor health. I recall a guy (journalist/Dr?) a few years ago, taking on the

challenge of eating solely at McDonalds for a month for all meals to assess the results.

Drs testing and checking his health, strongly advised him to stop before the end of the month as certain tests (cannot recall), were

showing that there was a serious deterioration in (some??) of his vitals.
 
30boat said:
What I'm saying is that you can regain much of your strength and agilty back through well programmed exercise but make an appointment with your doctor first.He'll be able to advise you.
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Yeah right. I can just imagine asking a doctor over here for exercise advice. Many Swedes think that here in Sweden you have to walk in carrying your head in a plastic bag to get any attention at all.
 
Scotty

I'm glad you obviously have thought about it.

But "Less and it eases the stress and strain on a skeletal framework that's crumbling around the edges

I don't think it has to be like that. Eat the right food with plenty of flavanoids do the right exercise and you'll slow the aging process right down. I've decided to cut back on the amount I eat : that is a sure way of extending a person's life. Just a "Pink Lady" apple (high in flavanoids) for lunch will be fine. (By the way I am not overweight).

I don't drink now but unwittingly I think I kept may aging in check because I used to drink red cask wine (lots!). If I was a beer drinker I would certainly switch to red wine. These days I drink lots of tea (flavanoids), fruit juice and eat plenty of fruit/veg but very little red meat.

I read that story about the guy eating McDonalds too but some people live on junk food. In the last three years I have attended the funerals of three friends who died because poor diet.

The research they are doing today is tremendous. They have reversed the age of mice (rats?) and they are starting trials on humans.
 
I had not much idea about FLAVENOIDS and Coopec was going on about them. Well he is so correct. They will slow down the ageing process. Eat green veg, apples, dark chocolate a small amount of red wine. Keep away from red meat.Drink green tea and some coffee as caffine is also good for the brain.
 
pcatterall said:
Playing at climbing ropes in a gym and realised that my 73 year old arms have become very weak in just the last few years, I could only manage one ‘pull up’.

Clearly if I fell in I would struggle to pull myself back.
I do a regular work out at the gym but will now concentrate more on my upper body strength.

Have similar oldies experienced this and will exercise restore things ( In just a week I can see quite some improvement)
This is a bit of a cautionary tale, I had not realised just how much strength I had lost.
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Of course. But then why would you not have got weaker as you aged. Within 10 years you could easily be in sheltered accomodation or a care home. Like me ( I'm 69) you are in the last quarter of the average life span and everything is slowly deteriorating.

And no, you cannot reverse the process by more exercise. The best you can do is to slow it down.

Right now I am having to contemplate giving up riding a motorcycle thanks to deterioration of the joints in my neck causing a numb right hand. So I have started another interest - learning the guitar - which I hope will replace the bike in my list of hobbies. Sure its not the same thing but you have to be positive and adapt to slowly increasing infirmity.
 
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birdseye said:
Of course. But then why would you not have got weaker as you aged. Within 10 years you could easily be in sheltered accomodation or a care home. Like me ( I'm 69) you are in the last quarter of the average life span and everything is slowly deteriorating.

And no, you cannot reverse the process by more exercise. The best you can do is to slow it down.

Right now I am having to contemplate giving up riding a motorcycle thanks to deterioration of the joints in my neck causing a numb right hand. So I have started another interest - learning the guitar - which I hope will replace the bike in my list of hobbies. Sure its not the same thing but you have to be positive and adapt to slowly increasing infirmity.
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Yup, I stopped riding motocross and swimming far breast stroke in my early 30's due to aching..... arthritic neck mostly. I stopped playing the ukulele for a few weeks recently due to arthritic bone causing roughened tendon in shoulder..... it's all down hill guys and gals :D

S.
 
Not stressing the body because it's crumbling is pure nonsense.Of course if you've allowed yourself to crumble then by all means don't do anything that might break something,It is well known that exercise increases bone density as well as muscle size and power.I didn't want to talk about myself for fear that someone would accuse me of boasting (and someone will)but at 58 I have the body of a gymnast.Besides my twice a week Krav Maga practice I do 80 full push ups every morning followed by 100 leg squats(full extention) .In the evenings I do three sets of chin ups starting at 30,then 25,20 and 20.I can stretch more than anyone else at the gym ie I can rest my chest on my extended leg with the chin on my knee while sitting down with the legs spread wide open,and more.When I'm swimming I always haul myself into the boat by hand by gripping the lower rail of the pulpit on my Fulmar.I can also climb the mast by hand and do it regularly.
I know I'm not your usual almost 60 year old but there are many like me and while this level of fittness requires many years to get at an older person can exercise himself into a useful physical condition that will greatly enhance his or hers quality of life as well as allow him or her to remain active for much much longer.
 
Scotty_Tradewind said:
Yup, I stopped riding motocross and swimming far breast stroke in my early 30's due to aching..... arthritic neck mostly. I stopped playing the ukulele for a few weeks recently due to arthritic bone causing roughened tendon in shoulder..... it's all down hill guys and gals :D

S.
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How's the arm wrestling going? :D
 
At 60 the thought of going to a gym frightened the carp out of me but I did it to placate the wife. Within 6 months I had lost 18kg and been taken off the diabetic register as i was then classed as slightly glucose intolerant. Now at 63 I am fitter than I have ever been and gone to the gym every morning to join the guys and girls with ages ranging from the teens to the 90's. It has done me the world of good both healthwise and mentally.
 
30boat said:
I do 80 full push ups every morning followed by 100 leg squats(full extention) .In the evenings I do three sets of chin ups starting at 30,then 25,20 and 20
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Much like me.

(I lie, lots)

I do however benefit from going back to manual pursuits.
My chainsaw hasn't has much use the last couple of years (I lent it to friend). I "borrowed" it back to undertake a major cutting back of saplings which are beginning to surround the homestead.
It needs a new chain, a new clutch and the chain brake needs some attention.
So I used a bow saw instead. That certainly gets the heart-rate up.
 
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30boat

That's great and as the article linked in a previous (recent) post if you think you are old you are more likely a candidate for dementia

Birdseye says "within 10 years you could easily be in sheltered accomodation or a care home. Like me ( I'm 69) you are in the last quarter of the average life span and everything is slowly deteriorating"

At 73 I think I am 2/3 my way through my life as I think I will live to 100 years. Both my parents lived to 87 and, like most people of their time, they didn't know about flavenoids, vitamin D and benefits of exercise.
 
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As a teen age lifeguard in Winchester and Southampton I saw many 70, 80 amd older swimmers doing their laps.

Been doing the mile a day for a long time now, well up to 2 kms now...

Seems to make a difference as I am so much more tranquil after the endorphins kick in at about 1 km.
 
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