A Warning about Intense Exercise for Older Adults
09-09-23, 06:56 AM
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A Warning about Intense Exercise for Older Adults
60 is just around the corner for me, so this 10-minute video caught my attention...
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09-09-23, 01:11 PM
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This! It sounds trite, but back in the seventies my father was fond of saying, "move it or lose it!" And today at nearly 60 I still work physical labor for a living, ride the bike regularly, speed skate, haul firewood into the house all winter... I feel great, I sleep like a baby, I don't crave sugar, I'm comfortable with a high intensity exercise pulse of 164... YMMV, but the benefits of regular exercise for the rest of our lives--exercise we are comfortable with--is life changing.
09-09-23, 01:48 PM
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Good video but the thread title, the way I read it, is misleading. Friel is promoting HIIT for older athletes. The warning is to those who do not exercise.
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Spending 80% - 90% of your exercise time in Zone 2 in probably the healthiest way to train and exercise. The other 10% 20% can be dedicated to higher intensity efforts...Personally I don't do any HIIT intervals on a bicycle and all my rides are done in Zone 2....I get my higher intensity exercise from kettlebell and weight training workouts...Consistency is the most important thing when it comes to exercise, you need to keep moving and doing something and being physically active every day.
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Back in 1998 Friel wrote Fast after 50. I still have my original copy. Thanks for the video.
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I'm 74+, had two stents placed late March in 2006. Did P/T, enjoyed rowing machine, so bought a Waterrower. Wife still uses it, I found it kinda boring so I started back to riding my Motobecane. Work schedule and time spent commuting for 20 years had cut into my time for riding so I'd gotten out of the habit.
Once I got back into it my longest ride up through 2010 was ~ 25 miles, all paved bike path. Few grades back there though.
Quit riding when we moved, it'd been ~ nine years this spring when I decided I wanted to ride again, at least for commuting 3/4 mile to my part-time job in a hardware store. I can log about seven miles in a 9-hour shift but it's on a concrete floor so takes a toll. Wasn't certain the MB would be rideable or appropriate for this so in April I bought a last-year's model Kona Dew+.
Turned out I like riding as much as I used to, inspired enough to renovate the MB w/ new tires, brake shoes, cables, even changed DR to a bigger cogged Suntour for the steepest hills around where I can ride now. So far this year I've managed longest ride of ~ 14 miles but there's still time and weather yet to improve on that. Winter comes I may get back to swimming laps at a here-in-town pool run by the Y some 30 miles distant.
"Move/Use it or Lose it" or my favorite "Just Keep Moving!" are aphorisms to take to heart, literally.
Once I got back into it my longest ride up through 2010 was ~ 25 miles, all paved bike path. Few grades back there though.
Quit riding when we moved, it'd been ~ nine years this spring when I decided I wanted to ride again, at least for commuting 3/4 mile to my part-time job in a hardware store. I can log about seven miles in a 9-hour shift but it's on a concrete floor so takes a toll. Wasn't certain the MB would be rideable or appropriate for this so in April I bought a last-year's model Kona Dew+.
Turned out I like riding as much as I used to, inspired enough to renovate the MB w/ new tires, brake shoes, cables, even changed DR to a bigger cogged Suntour for the steepest hills around where I can ride now. So far this year I've managed longest ride of ~ 14 miles but there's still time and weather yet to improve on that. Winter comes I may get back to swimming laps at a here-in-town pool run by the Y some 30 miles distant.
"Move/Use it or Lose it" or my favorite "Just Keep Moving!" are aphorisms to take to heart, literally.
