Gale Hawkins
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Members in their 70s?
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ultrarunner
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I always feel better the day after spending a day mowing and outside clean up... it use to be one full day each week but now lucky if one full day every other week.
Too much inside work with deadlines week after week weakens... at least my perspective... my vision even improves after a day without reading and reports.
Too much inside work with deadlines week after week weakens... at least my perspective... my vision even improves after a day without reading and reports.
Gale Hawkins
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Getting outside is my mental and vision reset tool. Scooping poop is one way I scoop the mental poop at the same time. The above podcast is an example of what I can learn about while scooping poop or bush hogging. While I have Bluetooth enabled hearing aids one thing that I recently purchased was the bone conduction headset which leaves your ears open and other noises don't interfere so much with what you're hearing because your inner ear is not used in the same way. Sweating with earmolds in my ears bugs me.
Building muscles and brain plasticity at 70+ is hard but is needed to help keeping SS checks coming monthly as long as possible.
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Life is too short for me to view that almost 2 hour video you posted so I don't know the main topics it recommends. I am 76 and feel much better after any day I spend outdoors accomplishing something. I try to do my computer work on very cold, too hot or rainy days or at night before bed. The harder I work, the more tired I am but the better I feel after. Proud of myself for accomplishing what I did.
At 73 I started going to the gym every other day and working out for an hour and in one year I lost over 20 pounds of fat and gained about 4 pounds of muscle. When I was 40 I could have done that in 1 month. My memory, especially remembering names, has been going down hill for years now and nothing I have done so far has improved it but that, so far, has been a minor, though sometimes embarrassing, problem.
My knees hurt, my feet hurt, my back hurts, but they all feel a little better the next day after a hard days work. I've found that I can do more and work longer when I have good company while doing it. Being alone working is a drag but better than working with a chronic complainer or a know nothing, do nothing, azzhole who thinks he should be getting paid $20 more an hour for what you can do in 15 minutes.
The only advice I can give anyone who wants to live longer is try to eat mainly healthy foods, try to get more exercise, if you think you are eating too much, you are, and if you think you might be drinking too much, you are. If you think the couch has a bad cushion from sitting on it too much, you are. If you feel like you are getting depressed, get out more with old friends and relatives. I've had more fun drowning worms with old friends than catching a 10 pound bass by myself.
At 73 I started going to the gym every other day and working out for an hour and in one year I lost over 20 pounds of fat and gained about 4 pounds of muscle. When I was 40 I could have done that in 1 month. My memory, especially remembering names, has been going down hill for years now and nothing I have done so far has improved it but that, so far, has been a minor, though sometimes embarrassing, problem.
My knees hurt, my feet hurt, my back hurts, but they all feel a little better the next day after a hard days work. I've found that I can do more and work longer when I have good company while doing it. Being alone working is a drag but better than working with a chronic complainer or a know nothing, do nothing, azzhole who thinks he should be getting paid $20 more an hour for what you can do in 15 minutes.
The only advice I can give anyone who wants to live longer is try to eat mainly healthy foods, try to get more exercise, if you think you are eating too much, you are, and if you think you might be drinking too much, you are. If you think the couch has a bad cushion from sitting on it too much, you are. If you feel like you are getting depressed, get out more with old friends and relatives. I've had more fun drowning worms with old friends than catching a 10 pound bass by myself.
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Just had the "Seven-OH"!
On a whim, I decided to set pavers on the east side of the house. (50" X 5") Concrete 6X6 and 6X9 inch "pavers".
Went over to the excavation contractor and asked for a load of "processed gravel" inch stone and sand mix. Small town, the truck came less than 20 minutes after I got back.
It's been three days of screening, hauling and setting block. Good thing I have a tractor with a FEL and one with a carry all, and one to pull the trailer ;-) I still shoveled thousands of scoops. Tamped for hours, carried the pavers fifty feet four at a time.
I"M BEAT!
But it's a happy beat, that makes me feel good about being able to do things.
I even bicycled the two miles to the town office to cast my vote on a special town issue first thing this morning before "starting work".
Get out there! DO stuff! If you don't, it will kill you!
On a whim, I decided to set pavers on the east side of the house. (50" X 5") Concrete 6X6 and 6X9 inch "pavers".
Went over to the excavation contractor and asked for a load of "processed gravel" inch stone and sand mix. Small town, the truck came less than 20 minutes after I got back.
It's been three days of screening, hauling and setting block. Good thing I have a tractor with a FEL and one with a carry all, and one to pull the trailer ;-) I still shoveled thousands of scoops. Tamped for hours, carried the pavers fifty feet four at a time.
I"M BEAT!
But it's a happy beat, that makes me feel good about being able to do things.
I even bicycled the two miles to the town office to cast my vote on a special town issue first thing this morning before "starting work".
Get out there! DO stuff! If you don't, it will kill you!
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Ditto that. I know a guy, well actually he lives here, well actually it was me - anyway he was busting up a concrete wall with a sledgehammer and seriously injured his eye. Big time. Surgery with a top specialist (locals wouldn't touch it) and no longer any dilation in right eye. Apparently, there is a sphincter muscle in the eye and mine was damaged beyond repair. It took only a few seconds to injure myself - so, as Doofy says - take care.
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^ This has been me since I was a youngster. Now that I'm crowding 80 I find it more important than ever to keeping myself sane, especially with what's going on in the world today. Just got back from several days exploring old ghost towns in the Kawich Range of central Nevada (right on the border of Area 51). Never saw another person or another vehicle the whole time I was there...the way I like it!
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Salt can cause congestive heart disease, which is what I got at 70. Never had high blood pressure.
Gale Hawkins
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Low sodium levels can lead to a host of mental/physical health issues. The whole of life is a balancing act.
Larry Caldwell
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I just got an invitation to a friend's 80th birthday party next month. It will be great to see him, but a little sad too. Of our circle of friends back then, eight of us have already passed away. All of them were younger than us, some many years younger. Two of them were my roommates in '73. It has been several years since they have been gone. I'm the only one who remembers the stories of our youth.
I try to be the repository of stories. When I meet the grandchildren of departed friends, I bend their ears about the happy times last century. Often they never had the opportunity to meet their grandparents. A sense of connection to previous generations is important to young people who are finding their own identity.
I try to be the repository of stories. When I meet the grandchildren of departed friends, I bend their ears about the happy times last century. Often they never had the opportunity to meet their grandparents. A sense of connection to previous generations is important to young people who are finding their own identity.