Health

Fitness After 50 This weekend I took it fairly easy as far as my personal fitness program was concerned. On Friday Night I went to Shapes and worked my arms and legs, I didn’t seem to have much jam on Saturday and Sunday. There were no weight workouts on these two days. I kept it down to one forty minute bike ride per day. The weather was very hot this weekend so this may have contributed to my lack of energy. Oh well, Monday starts a new week of training.

Instinctive Training As my main goal is to try to lose some body fat the majority of my training is now aerobic. The great July weather that we have enjoyed in Winnipeg has allowed me to do my aerobic program outdoors. At my age I have found by trial and error that exercising for short blocks of time a few times per day works better for me. When I first got back to my conditioning program I would train for longer periods of time. The drawback to this approach was that I found recovery to be very difficult. Using this approach I would often wake up the next day feeling like I had been run over by a truck. During the day I would feel exhausted, weak and sore. In other words my first day would be devoted to exercising vigorously and the next day would involve rest and recovery. After a few weeks I didn’t find this system to be viable. I did not want to spend every second day tired and in pain, I knew that an adjustment to my training routine would be benefici

Anyone who has ever tried to get back in shape after age fifty will likely tell you that it's not easy and they're right. Trying to lose weight or increase your physical fitness level can be a daunting task. Firstly, it requires a lot of commitment. Commitment to me means being able to force yourself to do something or force yourself not to do something when you just plain don't feel like it. Motivation and will power definitely play important roles. People are very departmentalized when it comes to things like willpower and motivation. For example I find that it is easier to exercise when I am tired and sore than to refrain from eating junk food. In fact, my desire to eat junk food is more easily rationalized when I tell myself that I will be going to the gym later in the day. Intellectually, I know darn well that I will not be able to burn off all the calories that i consumed by eating that chocolate bar. But it is amazing how rationalization can usually triumph over acad...

In my opinion quality of life basically comes down to two things; health and money in that order. It is extremely difficult (but not impossible) to be happy if your general health is poor. I don't know how much time I have on this earth. I could be dead an hour from now or I could still be writing my blog twenty years from now. Medical science could do numerous tests on me and thoroughly analyze my medical history. From there they could work with mathematical probabilities and come up with a fairly precise date on which I will be leaving this world. While these studies are interesting they cannot account for all the possible variables. Life is unpredictable as are people. There is always plenty of room for surprises. Furthermore, science cannot compete with God. God knows the exact day, hour and second that I'll be leaving this earth. If I believe that I will be going to Heaven based on the finished work of Jesus Christ (and I do) then I should have no fear of death. The questi...