What is this thread all about?
Just a place for general discussion. A place to unload whats on your mind and talk about anything - personal, health, help needed, achievements, daily highs and daily lows, theories, predictions and what have you.
Does not need to be Q related.
Hell yeah! It's tough looking at a past version of yourself that had more success. When I was in peak physical shape, I had no problem busting 20 pull ups. I remember my brother and parking in the local park during festivals, getting toasty, and challenging each other to do all sorts of feats of strength like we were out of a chapter of Homer's The Odyssey.
With age comes the superpower of lower metabolism and ease of growing a gut xD. I also, poor eating habits and N inclination towards the drink (which takes a lot of to get me going) certainly haven't helped!
But progress is being made on my end, too. As it's easier to gain back muscle/strength, than it is to gain it off the bat.
You're killing it out there, PhD. You may be double my age, but you also seem to have double the willpower and wisdom. I'm going to humblebrag about you to my dad who while he is in good shape, told me that once 50 hits you take a huge drop-off, and how it's impossible to even hang on with your bodyweight.
I know it's BS because when we go kayaking, he is able to go fast and keep the same pace for 2 hours easily while my endurance is trash in comparison.
Proud of you and pulling for you, Anon. I'll think of you when I want to crap out early in a set next time and the laziness starts to set in. Maybe when you're reaching 10 chin ups and feel the burn, imagine a drunk anon WOOing obnoxiously in the distance 😆
Thanks for your encouragement :) I tell people the only difference between being old and young is, when old, you can do everything you could do when you were young, but you will do it slower, and you will be sore afterwards :) (and you may injure yourself doing it, and instead of getting over the injury in a few days, it will take a few weeks or longer :) ) I remember when I was in my 40's, I thought about how almost all the pro athletes were under 30, except golfers. And when I was in my 50's, only coaches were as old as me (and "senior PGA members"). Now, in my 60's, there's barely even coaches my age, and the only athlete my age still competing with those much younger is the pro golfer Bernard Langer :) I now have arthritis in my right hip, so it just hurts too much to run, so I bought a mountain bike last year and have been trying to do that a few times a week now (just on roads and paved trails; no crazy mountain trails for me)