saundby
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After some of the bad news lately I thought I might see if starting a thread on what we're doing for maintaining our physical statistics along the lines of the Bookshelf thread, but for the first three stats rather than Int and Edu.
I own a high maintenance piece of property of about 2.5 acres that gives me stuff to do most of the year. I'm still trying to find something that keeps me moving in winter, though. Particularly since that's when most of my chronic illnesses limit my choice of activities. Over the past several years I've dropped about 60 pounds, mostly through managing my schedule and cutting back on the extra eating. But there's another 20 I'd like to lose, and the cardiovascular system needs ongoing constant work to keep it as healthy as it should be.
Today I went out to work on this spring's project. I'm doing some minor terracing for erosion control on the property. I spent about an hour moving topsoil from one side of the property to the other (and, of course, to a higher level--but not before going down a way first.)
Over the past two weeks I've been getting out whenever the rain breaks. I've been shifting some old cedar to use as the retaining wall for the new terraced section, raking up leaves that came down late, and cutting up deadfalls to stack in piles for chipping (we lost two mature trees on the property this winter, and several smaller ones--no worries, there are a few hundred trees on the property, about three times as many as it should have.)
I have to be careful not to overdo it. Especially in spring like this it's easy for me to go hog wild after a winter of sitting on my keister wishing I was getting exercise since I hate weights and exercises (though I force myself to do some of it anyway. But not enough.) I've had more than a bit of exercise lost to injuring myself because I didn't pace my work. So I've been keeping it down to 45 minute to hour sessions of heavy work, with another 45 minutes to hour of walking around doing something light like clearing small branches and twigs.
Plus there's the frustration of jobs I just can't do any more. I can't cut grass. It'll lay me out faster and harder than a day's hard labor without conditioning. Bad enough to get too little exercise when the things that would be good for the muscles will kill you in another way. So someone else cuts the grass now while I hide in the house with the windows closed.
Anyway, I'm sure there are others here trying to keep from leaving an empty chair at the table anytime soon. Maybe we can share some stuff on this the way we do on games, exchange ideas, inspire others, and so on. There are a lot of health problems you can't do much to prevent, and there are a lot of others you can.
What do you say?
I own a high maintenance piece of property of about 2.5 acres that gives me stuff to do most of the year. I'm still trying to find something that keeps me moving in winter, though. Particularly since that's when most of my chronic illnesses limit my choice of activities. Over the past several years I've dropped about 60 pounds, mostly through managing my schedule and cutting back on the extra eating. But there's another 20 I'd like to lose, and the cardiovascular system needs ongoing constant work to keep it as healthy as it should be.
Today I went out to work on this spring's project. I'm doing some minor terracing for erosion control on the property. I spent about an hour moving topsoil from one side of the property to the other (and, of course, to a higher level--but not before going down a way first.)
Over the past two weeks I've been getting out whenever the rain breaks. I've been shifting some old cedar to use as the retaining wall for the new terraced section, raking up leaves that came down late, and cutting up deadfalls to stack in piles for chipping (we lost two mature trees on the property this winter, and several smaller ones--no worries, there are a few hundred trees on the property, about three times as many as it should have.)
I have to be careful not to overdo it. Especially in spring like this it's easy for me to go hog wild after a winter of sitting on my keister wishing I was getting exercise since I hate weights and exercises (though I force myself to do some of it anyway. But not enough.) I've had more than a bit of exercise lost to injuring myself because I didn't pace my work. So I've been keeping it down to 45 minute to hour sessions of heavy work, with another 45 minutes to hour of walking around doing something light like clearing small branches and twigs.
Plus there's the frustration of jobs I just can't do any more. I can't cut grass. It'll lay me out faster and harder than a day's hard labor without conditioning. Bad enough to get too little exercise when the things that would be good for the muscles will kill you in another way. So someone else cuts the grass now while I hide in the house with the windows closed.
Anyway, I'm sure there are others here trying to keep from leaving an empty chair at the table anytime soon. Maybe we can share some stuff on this the way we do on games, exchange ideas, inspire others, and so on. There are a lot of health problems you can't do much to prevent, and there are a lot of others you can.
What do you say?
