The Core

Went on a couple of longer rides with one of the girls on our Me-movers - https://me-mover.com/ . Phew, kind of rough getting off the couch, but need to get in better shape. Actually doing it with the kids makes a little more fun.

We've been trying to do a long walk once per week and I've been running a bit longer too. I've been laying off most upper body anything since hurting my arm, but I did a pullup the other day without significant pain (first time since April or so).

I find my various ailments that were accumulating this spring do better if I wait until I'm fully rested before going at it again. So a lot of weeks, I have just two long, hardish things and the rest is mostly rest or short/easy things. Seems to be moving things in the right direction.

Moving house soon and ahve a possibility of setting up equipment in the utility room since it's bigger than where we are now. I won't have that tepid excuse of "Man i have to unfold the treadmill and plug it in".

extremely quiet thread

Another repeat of the week before.  I've been pushing lighter weight and higher reps for the last several weeks as I'm giving my joints a break.  I have to say it is nice to feel good after a workout.

I started doing hand and forearm exercise in a bucket of rice, a technique popular with boxers and baseball players.  Its pretty crazy how quickly those small muscles in the hand get drained when used with constant resistance.

Still kind of lazy, but the arm is improving which is opening up possibilities. I've moved from avoiding anything over 5 pounds to carrying sheets of plywood.

Why sheets of plywood, you didn't actually ask? I am about 3/4 of the way done on building my small backyard training wall. It's only 12x9, but it is built on an axle and has teh ability to be set anywhere from straight up to 60 degrees over (i.e. 30-degree angle with the ground, 60 degrees of vertical). Raising and lower system yet to be worked out, so currently climbing on it veritcal.

Really looking forward to being able to get a bit more fit for climbing, joints and God willing.

The WAF was much improved by turning it into an art project (Tunnel View in Yosemite, painted entirely with free leftover test samples of housepaint - had about six colors to choose from).

Ha ha... what a bunch of crippled geezers. Generally, my ailments all seem to be going away.

Did a couple of short runs and on relatively long walk (25-26 miles) and some testing sessions on the new climbing wall. Should have the rest of the parts in a few days and be able to climb it in the kicked out position.

Finally starting to lose some of the flab I put on this summer. Being evacuated to my in-laws for a month resulted in a significant accumulation around the middle.

Yeah, Theresa told me the same thing.

The honest truth is that my knees feel better than they did when I was 30 and my calves feel a lot worse. So who knows.

And my dad is 89 and he can still work a full day in the yard with a shovel and pickaxe... so I'm hopeful that my actual, real old age will be like his.

So it's not so much that we *are* geezers, but looking at the last several comments, we sure *sound* like a bunch of geezers. Young geezers though.