Riding by in the passenger seat of the pickup, an old timer is mowing his lawn, and it looks like a struggle.
Thin, frail legs, the right leg being stiff, it gets thrown out in a semi circle, no bend with each step, then dragged behind, until repeated.
How many old timers I’ve seen unable to stand effectively under their own power.
If you’re limping when you get up from a commute in a car seat, or when you arise from the television vegetable state…that’s never going to get better on it’s own.
Watching the aging process can be a ____ thing when the examples haven’t taken care of themselves.
It’s one thing if you’re limping from a leg blown off in battle, or sutured in a wreck, but if it’s due to negligence it is entirely preventable.
Limping, difficult and pained gaits, trouble standing, these symptoms never just improve when you hope to maintain.
If you don’t have these things happening to you, it make sense to regularly run the gamut of bodyweight leg exercises so as to never be afflicted.
If you have the symptoms it’s only self harm to struggle with it, but not changing your lifestyle.
You need to actively train to strengthen and loosen some things.
It’s a weak mindset that views this shit in old age as an inevitability.
Though for most it is guaranteed…if they just do what they’re doing.
Never training, being of an unhealthy weight (over/under), living a lifetime on a primarily grain diet, seated far too much – they’ll do it.
You have to swear thosr symptoms are not how you will become, and if you have them not how you will stay.
As a senior citizen, I’d rather exhaust myself daily to maintain normal locomotion, than accept hindered living and the mannerisms of a couch potato.
If standing is difficult, rig up something to sit on, a high stool, and stand from there. Progress lower and lower.
I could see isometrics against a crossbar as being useful here too.
If you drive against an impossible resistance, above that level you’ll never lose the ability to stand from.
But if you trained as a lifelong habit, you’re never going to be at that point.
If you are you can flip a bird to aging and train yourself back to a younger stronger feel.
It’s not a guarantee, I’ve seen some senior citizens quite far from that issue.
I remember this 65ish grandma doing deadlifts with her college age granddaughter. Both tall, granddaughter was big, not fat, but not curvy either, boxy, with muscle and fat, grandma actually had a relatively big bone structure too, but a good waist to hip ratio. They were both fluky strong in my eyes. I saw both pull 315 for low reps and 275 for reps on a regular basis.
That granny could be strong enough to skip this issue old age, if you’re a man what’s your excuse?
Don’t tell me granny as a small business owner is more of a high t go getter than you!
Persistence & Tenacity