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(11-26-2025, 06:39 PM)Montana Tom Wrote: Looks like I am the senior member here, so respect your elders.
I turned 70 this year and frankly am in better shape than I was 10-15 years ago.
I worked at dropping a bit of weight about 2-3 years ago...dropped a pants size and got my balance back.
Regular gym workouts 4-5 mornings a week. Helps me sleep better and I can stack hay bales better today than 30 years ago (not that I want to).
Firewood seemed easier this year...about five FULL cords cut, split and stacked, ready for a Montana winter.
Something that motivates me...I've seen two different studies now that prove that weight/resistance training has an impact on extending life span. One of the studies was by a cardiologist that assumed that it was good diet and genetics. A study of 10,000 ppl proved him very wrong.
So yeah, a body in motion stays in motion. Don't stop, don't sit.
And while you're up, would you get me a beer?
On weight resistance. Can I do it by doing farm work or does it have to be consistent in a gym?
I’ve got a hard time doing “work” that doesn’t accomplish anything.
Need to lose some weight and get back to running. Wife and I were the XC coaches for our kids team but we quit this year. All the extra time went into a rental house instead of staying healthy.
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(11-27-2025, 02:12 PM)AGRforever Wrote: On weight resistance. Can I do it by doing farm work or does it have to be consistent in a gym?
I’ve got a hard time doing “work” that doesn’t accomplish anything.
Need to lose some weight and get back to running. Wife and I were the XC coaches for our kids team but we quit this year. All the extra time went into a rental house instead of staying healthy.
My theory is that if I spend a couple hours splitting and stacking wood...not going to the gym that day.
But if I'm going to be desk-bound in the office, yeah, it's a day for the gym.
In anyone's book, farm work (which I am intimately familiar with) counts.
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Somehow we found ourselves playing beach volleyball at 1 am last night with a smattering of locals and the nicest couple I've ever met from Macedonia. Also somehow did something to my knee where I think my ACL might be located. Yes, getting old sucks.
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(11-29-2025, 11:02 AM)MaroonBells Wrote: Somehow we found ourselves playing beach volleyball at 1 am last night with a smattering of locals and the nicest couple I've ever met from Macedonia. Also somehow did something to my knee where I think my ACL might be located. Yes, getting old sucks.
Nothing good happens at 1 am!
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(11-29-2025, 12:19 PM)hogjowlsjohnny Wrote: Nothing good happens at 1 am!
Lol...You're forgetting what it was to be in your teens 
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Welp, turns out I do not have back pain. I have a cyst on my kidney that is quite large. They’re going to talk with me tomorrow on what exactly to do about it.
Great thing is my wife and I coached the doctors girl in XC so I can get the give it to me straight answers lol.
Anyway all you old dudes. I’m young again!!!
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(12-16-2025, 06:05 PM)AGRforever Wrote: Welp, turns out I do not have back pain. I have a cyst on my kidney that is quite large. They’re going to talk with me tomorrow on what exactly to do about it.
Great thing is my wife and I coached the doctors girl in XC so I can get the give it to me straight answers lol.
Anyway all you old dudes. I’m young again!!!
They may want to biopsy that sucker and/or some more in-depth imaging....Hopefully just something that they'll monitor over time as you age out.
GL!!
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(11-29-2025, 12:19 PM)hogjowlsjohnny Wrote: Nothing good happens at 1 am!
It really doesn't. Seriously. Day drinking rules if you like to have a few. Happy hours if you want to go out.
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(Yesterday, 07:39 AM)StickierBuns Wrote: It really doesn't. Seriously. Day drinking rules if you like to have a few. Happy hours if you want to go out.
When I'm at home, I couldn't agree more. Love day drinking and happy hours and you'll rarely find me out later than 8. But when I'm on vacation, it's a different story. Probably has something to do with the ridiculous levels of oxygen at sea level. That's another thing....at sea level, I never get hangovers.
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(Yesterday, 09:43 AM)MaroonBells Wrote: When I'm at home, I couldn't agree more. Love day drinking and happy hours and you'll rarely find me out later than 8. But when I'm on vacation, it's a different story. Probably has something to do with the ridiculous levels of oxygen at sea level. That's another thing....at sea level, I never get hangovers.
Oh hell yes. Vacation time is party time and nobody cares what time it is. The problem with where I'm at is every day seems like vacation time because of the climate. I forget during the winter that the rest of the country isn't sitting outside at 4 pm with a glass of Pinot Noir in shorts at Kaluz on the intercoastal. But I sure do like being reminded.
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