How are you keeping fit during lockdown?

Maddog wrote:Riding bikes and drinking beer.

About to head out on 44 mile group ride this morning.  

I really should add some other type of exercise. At least something more load bearing because cycling is simply aerobic and doesn't build much muscle or help with bone density.  

gelico wrote:

Maddog wrote:Riding bikes and drinking beer.

About to head out on 44 mile group ride this morning.  

I really should add some other type of exercise. At least something more load bearing because cycling is simply aerobic and doesn't build much muscle or help with bone density.  

44 miles?

FFS!  I would struggle even if there were a decimal point in the middle

and that's providing i could actually keep my balance on the damn thing

Ben Reilly wrote:Doing housework, walking to Tesco's, and lately I've been (half-heartedly) joining in on some of my stepdaughter's P.E. videos that we pull up on YouTube.

Yes, I did (some of) this routine. Doopity-doopity-doo!

Maddog wrote:Riding bikes and drinking beer.

About to head out on 44 mile group ride this morning.  

I really should add some other type of exercise. At least something more load bearing because cycling is simply aerobic and doesn't build much muscle or help with bone density.  

Fred Moletrousers wrote:I use an ap aimed at the, ahem, more elderly, that records only brisk (i.e. regarded as clinically beneficial) walking. My daily target is 30 minutes, or three “active tens”, and I try to maintain a walking speed of 2.8mph.
I’m immensely lucky in that I live out in the countryside and I have an abundance of country lanes and public footpaths to choose from, so I frequently notch up four or five active tens.
If the weather is bad I do at least 30 minutes at three miles an hour on my treadmill.
Most of the year I’m also pretty busy in my garden -all two and a half acres of it.
OK, it might not sound a lot of exercise to many folk, but I suppose many folk ain’t within a couple of months of being 82!

Syl wrote:

Fred Moletrousers wrote:I use an ap aimed at the, ahem, more elderly, that records only brisk (i.e. regarded as clinically beneficial) walking. My daily target is 30 minutes, or three “active tens”, and I try to maintain a walking speed of 2.8mph.
I’m immensely lucky in that I live out in the countryside and I have an abundance of country lanes and public footpaths to choose from, so I frequently notch up four or five active tens.
If the weather is bad I do at least 30 minutes at three miles an hour on my treadmill.
Most of the year I’m also pretty busy in my garden -all two and a half acres of it.
OK, it might not sound a lot of exercise to many folk, but I suppose many folk ain’t within a couple of months of being 82!

It sounds like you get a lot of exercise no matter what your age is. Probably more than lots of younger people who don't have an active job and play on electronic games all night....and I know a couple of them.

Gardening is great exercise, and you have a big one. I am a fair weather gardener....cant stand the cold.

ps....I bought a treadmill once, after counting and re counting the roses on my bedroom wallpaper umpteen times, I decided to get rid, I found it mind-numbingly boring.

Syl wrote:Are you managing to exercise at all?

I am finding physical exercise a lot harder to do than mental exercise.

Syl wrote:

Maddog wrote:Riding bikes and drinking beer.

About to head out on 44 mile group ride this morning.  

I really should add some other type of exercise. At least something more load bearing because cycling is simply aerobic and doesn't build much muscle or help with bone density.  

Have you tried weights?

I forgot to add, I do weights every morning and every night. Just for my arms....but I actually do have arm muscles now.

Fred Moletrousers wrote:

Syl wrote:

It sounds like you get a lot of exercise no matter what your age is. Probably more than lots of younger people who don't have an active job and play on electronic games all night....and I know a couple of them.

Gardening is great exercise, and you have a big one. I am a fair weather gardener....cant stand the cold.

ps....I bought a treadmill once, after counting and re counting the roses on my bedroom wallpaper umpteen times, I decided to get rid, I found it mind-numbingly boring.

Well, Syl, the surgeon who did my heart op at the Royal Papworth Hospital getting on for three years ago told me that my fitness had been the key to the successful outcome of the procedure and my rapid recovery,  and that it would be a case of use my new aorta or lose it!
When he told me that it had been made out of bovine tissue I said “well I hope it came from a good Scottish Aberdeen Angus and not a French Charolais.”
Trying to explain that to a Pakistani surgeon, even with the most flawless English accent, was somewhat difficult.....
Yes, treadmills are not designed to bring excitement into one’s life. I overcame that by mounting a small TV at eye level in front of it and watching half hour documentaries on Freeview.

Maddog wrote:

Syl wrote:

Have you tried weights?

I forgot to add, I do weights every morning and every night. Just for my arms....but I actually do have arm muscles now.

Yeah, I've done crossfit in the past and also been a gym rat.  I've just been sort a lazy and or riding mostly. I actually have a gym in my building.

Syl wrote:

Maddog wrote:

Yeah, I've done crossfit in the past and also been a gym rat.  I've just been sort a lazy and or riding mostly. I actually have a gym in my building.

I don't like gyms, I prefer to do my weights and sit-ups in private, it's not a pretty sight.

Maddog wrote:

Syl wrote:

I don't like gyms, I prefer to do my weights and sit-ups in private, it's not a pretty sight.

Yeah, I get that.  
But to be honest, people work harder in groups. Even on my bike rides my pace is slightly quicker riding with others than going solo.  

Before I went to Colorado last summer I was taking my yoga mat on my bike and going to a park and doing some real quick HIIT workouts.

I still pretty much died riding at over 8000 feet elevation.

Original Quill wrote:I get about the same exercise.  There's no prohibition to going out, just congregating in groups.  The gym is out, but not the beautiful parks we have...as long as you go it alone.

Syl wrote:

Maddog wrote:

Yeah, I get that.  
But to be honest, people work harder in groups. Even on my bike rides my pace is slightly quicker riding with others than going solo.  

Before I went to Colorado last summer I was taking my yoga mat on my bike and going to a park and doing some real quick HIIT workouts.

I still pretty much died riding at over 8000 feet elevation.

I agree some group exercise is better and a lot easier if you share it.
I have never been on a solo bike ride, I used to love riding with friends and family though.

The gym, even if other people are there, is quite a solitary experience though, everyone is doing their own programme...at least they were at my local gym.

Good for you for doing yoga in the park, good for you and good for watchers too.

Syl wrote:I didn't know what HIIT was so I just googled a video....I feel knackered just watching.

I use weights of 8lbs in each hand for arm exercises.
They are light, but I do 30 of each exercise, to build strength not muscle....it works OK for me.

I am a lightweight, but then I am also an  old fart.

Maddog wrote:

Syl wrote:I didn't know what HIIT was so I just googled a video....I feel knackered just watching.

I use weights of 8lbs in each hand for arm exercises.
They are light, but I do 30 of each exercise, to build strength not muscle....it works OK for me.

I am a lightweight, but then I am also an  old fart.

Your purse weighs more than 8 pounds.  

Tommy Monk wrote:


My right arm is the fittest it's ever been!

Vintage wrote:Well I don't count in this thread as I am more or less back to work full time, I now remember why I wanted to retire or at least do part time then retire.