You don’t realize how strong you were until you stop

Glacier National Park hike
Random photo from 2016 visit.

 

You don’t realize how strong you were until you stop.

A left shoulder injury two months ago, cause unknown, has eliminated several key upper-body exercises, namely pullups and pushups.

In just 60 days, i can feel the atrophy.

Now, imagine if the atrophy was from two years instead of two months.

Or how about two decades.

One of the million reasons we need to find our motivation to stay strong.

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Modify to mitigate, no?

well water
Last night, this was on my mind.

 

Many of the common aging ailments might be mitigated if we modified our habits

Waking in the middle of the night to pee? Don’t drink anything past dinner time.

Not yourself in Spring? Perhaps allergy injections, versus over the counter medicine or a doctor visit when it gets severe

Awaken in the middle of the night? Stop caffeine use by 3pm.

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What makes some adults exercise regularly their entire lifetime

relatives
Babies don’t think about exercise, but while awake, it’s all they do.. Boomers think about it a lot, but rarely do it. Fascinating.

 

What makes some adults exercise regularly their entire lifetime and others avoid it altogether their entire lifetime?

 

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Life’s great curve ball

cold weather running in Orlando
Taking a second, and extended, running break to rest my chronic foot pain. Bicycling in cold December weather instead.

 

Life’s great curve ball.

When bending over to pick something up is no longer easy.

When pain won’t go away in places we never had pain before.

What role does nutrition, activity, and rest play in our aging experience?

What are we doing today in response to our answer to the question?

 

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Will a lifetime of exercise, nutrition and rest help me as i age?

prolific writer jeff noel
Writing on an iPhone 7 Plus is the natural progression from writing on continuously smaller devices.

 

Will a lifetime of exercise, nutrition and rest help me as i age?

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.