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#144,081
stonehenge said:
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That's cool - the cool thing about those pu's is you can split them to get more tonal options. My Gilaxis incorporates this to the max - 15 different pu options.

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GBassNorth said:
It's never too late to improve your fitness. However, it may be too late to do it the same way you used to when you were in your 20's and 30's. I was very active and athletic up to my 40's, then a desk job consumed my life. For 25 years about the only excercise I got was at a computer keyboard, walking to a coffee pot or meeting, or running to catch a plane.

Now that I'm in my 60's I've found two things that seem to strike a perfect balance for me to stay relatively fit. First - low impact cardio workouts, to get my heart, lungs and muscles some needed exercise without over stressing joints and tendons. I try to put in a nice fast paced 5K walk every other morning. Second - careful Iyengar or restorative type yoga, to keep my joints loose and tendons and muscles stretched, balance and core enhanced, and even a bit of state of mind relaxation. I do the yoga on the days I'm not doing cardio. This all takes about 45 minutes a day and alternating between walking and yoga seems to minimize pain, stiffness and injury. YMMV

There's no way I could do boxing or kick boxing for excercise, it's way too much impact for my joints and too much rapid extension for my muscles and tendons. I'd end up with more injuries than I started with and would soon be in a situation of resorting to rest for healing thereby not getting any excercise. That's exactly what I went through when I decided to start running a few years ago, more knee and foot injuries and down time than excercise for me.
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I'd just echo the need for low impact cardio, while I'm still new to it, I do enjoy it, I've been feeling a lot better recently than say, how I felt about a year ago. I'm eating better food and have drastically reduced my carb intake - no bread of any kind! The one item that's really helping me is a Fitbit, I LOVE it! I don't want to through a day without wearing it, it's actually a really helpful tool when you're trying to change your life and health.
 
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It's insanely hard to quit carbs. I went zero carb a few years back and lost about 30 pounds over 6 months. The struggle was the part where I live with just my wife, so meals are for 2. She's of German descent, stubborn as all get out and freakin' LOVES her carbs! So there's like ZERO way she is giving them up, which meant that every meal ended up being two separate meals for 1, which just became way too big a hassle to maintain two shopping lists and prepare two meals every time so at some point I just gave up. She won. Given my choice, if money wasn't an object and she was on board, I'd totally go fish and no carbs. I could do it, I love fish. But given her outright refusal to abandon carbs and her undying hatred for anything that comes out of the water, I'm not fighting that battle.
 
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TerribleTim68 said:
It's insanely hard to quit carbs. I went zero carb a few years back and lost about 30 pounds over 6 months. The struggle was the part where I live with just my wife, so meals are for 2. She's of German descent, stubborn as all get out and freakin' LOVES her carbs! So there's like ZERO way she is giving them up, which meant that every meal ended up being two separate meals for 1, which just became way too big a hassle to maintain two shopping lists and prepare two meals every time so at some point I just gave up. She won. Given my choice, if money wasn't an object and she was on board, I'd totally go fish and no carbs. I could do it, I love fish. But given her outright refusal to abandon carbs and her undying hatred for anything that comes out of the water, I'm not fighting that battle.
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Hear you, my wife is of Mexican descent....they will not sit down at a table if there’s not a stack of tortillas...
 
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Chucky Stiletti said:
Hear you, my wife is of Mexican descent....they will not sit down at a table if there’s not a stack of tortillas...
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My wife is the same only Ecuadorian and potato’s.

And, yes, pepperoni pizza is good but after being off the carb train I really feel awful afterwards, so I just don’t. Pass the bourbon, cheers!
 
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At least I stick to the corn tortillas! Isn't that worth something?

But yeah, we have this Mexican grocery store right down the road and they have this massive pastry section. I'll go in there to buy all my Latin favorites for meats and what not (they have an amazing butcher shop) and my wife makes a bee-line for the pastry cases. "GEIF MEH ALL TEH CARBS!!!!" :roflmao: :laugh: :roflmao:
 
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