Re: 50% do it

Posted by rrlund on January 16, 2019 at 07:18:01 from (69.36.62.213):

In Reply to: 50% do it posted by showcrop on January 16, 2019 at 06:04:50:

It's never been prescribed,but it'll be three years on the 20th since I started with the elliptical every day. I've said it all along,tighten the tendons and muscles around the joints and you can't believe the difference it makes. Not to mention what it does for blood pressure,blood sugar,your heart,your lungs,your circulation,you name it.

On Christmas,everybody was complaining about their aches and pains. My youngest son has some defect in his joints and had knee surgery when he was 16 and had to have a shoulder repaired before he was 30. He was among those complaining. I pointed at the elliptical. He got a little quieter and said "Yea,I've gotta admit,I did feel better when I was doing therapy.".

Maybe it's just me,but I don't understand the mindset of somebody who'd rather have something to complain about than to do the little bit of work it takes once a day to feel like you're 16 again. I had hit bottom. I know some would have kept on sinking right in to the floor,but I've got a life and want to keep it.

I could tell stories all day about people who've let themselves go. I'll just tell one. I've got two cousins who are brothers,just a year apart. They're both big boys,but the younger one has always been bigger in the belly. The older one is my age,we went all through school together. They both played high school football. The older one acts like he's 90. Well,I can't quite say that,I know a farmer who's 90 and who acts a whole lot younger than he does. Anyway,he's taking 17 pills a day for different things,won't even mow his own lawn if his daughter will do it for him. His brother is heavy like he's always been,but he's healthy and active. He went hunting in Colorado and found out that wasn't a good idea in the shape he was in.

Before he went again,he bought a Schwinn AirDyne and rode ten miles a day every day for 90 days. He went from 47 minutes the first time to less than 30 after 90 days. He said he had no problem hiking in the mountains after that. He's tried over and over to get his brother to do something,even if it was just to go for a walk with him. He refuses. He said if he gets in shape he'll probably just get hit by lightening or something. The younger brother offered to take his AirDyne down and set it up for him and said he'd buy a new one for himself. The older one said he could put it in the basement if he wanted to. The younger one told him that if he brought it down it was going upstairs where he'd use it. He said "You've got a treadmill in the basement and you don't use it.". I talked to him at our reunion last fall and he just has no motivation. I told him to just watch television or something while he's on it. The response of course was just "Naa".

Bottom line is,it's just like anything else. It's a personal decision and you either have it within your character to do something about your health or you can sit around with the old grandmas,knitting and complaining about everything that hurts and that you can't do anymore.

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