Exercise, Walking, Etc.

I am finally finished with the smartwatch study, so now I can wear my own Apple Watch again, and it helps me a lot because it not only reminds me to exercise and walk a little bit each hour, but it keeps track of everything that I do actually do, and I can tell it which exercise I am doing.
With the nicer weather coming soon, Bobby and I are talking about starting back to going to the fitness center again. We can go several times a week and I can swim and he works out with weights.
Along with walking more around the house and spending some time on the vibration plate, and I should start feeling more like my “Spring Self” again.
I miss being able to go for long walks, but that is just not happening again very likely.
 
Walking is the easiest form of exercise for me that counts. While the Apple Watch has workouts that are so easy they seem pointless, walking is the most comfortable way for me to get actual exercise in. The elliptical machine gets a lot of use but is harder on my ankles than actual walking, for some reason, so, while I have gone for 40 minutes or more at a time on the elliptical, usually my ankles hurt before I reach 20 minutes, while I can walk for hours, even at a brisk pace, although I try to balance what I would consider exercise walking with pleasure walking. While exercise walking, I will walk at a brisk pace, or even alternate 25 steps of running with 50 steps of brisk walking, trying to keep my pulse rate above 100, while, with pleasure walking, I walk at a more leisurely pace, paying attention to the things around me. My pleasure walks are usually recorded as hiking because they tend to be through the woods, along the railroad tracks, or along snowmobile/ATV trails.

Regardless, I generally mix them up. While I have earned my minimums from walking alone, I will also spend some time on the elliptical, or with weights; given my hernias, major weightlifting is not a good thing, but I do use a couple of 10-lb weights to keep the muscles in my arms from deteriorating completely. My elliptical machine also allows me to simulate rowing, which provides some exercise for my arms, so I do that too. If I ever take the mini trampoline out of the box, where it's been for about a year and a half now, I'll be able to add that. Still, the bulk of my exercise comes from walking or hiking.
 
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Yvonne Smith said:
We have a treadmill, but when I am walking on it, I am more like trudging along, not going anywhere. I have always been a walker, all my life, and remember my mom dragging me along on walks every night when I was probably only around 3-4 years old. We walked across town to visit Grnadma and Grandpa Bailey some nights, and some nights, we just walked.

I have gradually stopped walking outside very much, after tripping and falling over roots and other rough spots in the yard, and sometimes use a walking stick.
I can walk on the road, but with the crazy drivers in our area, it is not very safe for someone like me (who can’t dodge a car very fast), it is not something i am going to be doing anymore.
Most of my walking is back and forth through the house, usually when my Apple Watch prompts me to get up and walk.

At one time, I had a Gazelle glider, and I really loved that machine. It was easy for me to walk, I could add some music and enjoyed it. I loaned it to a lady who was a neighbor at the time, and needed something for easy exercise, and they moved and I never got it back.
I can’t get on the exercise bike that Bobby got and I hate trudging on the treadmill, but I know I need to do something to up my walking again.
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Have you tried a ski machine @Yvonne Smith ?
 
Ken Anderson said:
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I walk on the treadmill every day in the winter when I can. lately my knee pain has kept me off the treadmill. During warmer months, I walk every day as part of normal life, but winter is different since I have aged. Hopefully the remnants of pain will soon disappear and I will back on the treadmill or the road and fields.
 
Last Friday, after my wife got off of work at 4PM, I had her play a game of Wii Game Bowling with me. I had already played one game and played Wii Game Golf also. After playing Wii Game Bowling three times, we were "bushed". Other than going grocery shopping, our "exercising" is pretty much nothing. However, playing the Wii Game sure gets the old blood pumping. It's beginning to get a little too warm/hot here to do much of anything outside, so playing the Wii Game sure helps.
 
I’m becoming a regular at McDonald’s since it’s become a destination for my walks. While it might seem odd for McDonald’s to be part of a workout and health program, it fits in well with its distance from my house and the hills involved.

Just going there and back is a good walking regimen and when I feel ambitious, I can add to it by diverting to a walking trail that extends a 25-minute return trip to 45-50 minutes.

Plus, I generally only have a small order of fries and a coffee.
 
Marie Mallory said:
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That is hilarious, Marie! I've had enough of those ER events to "get" it all.

By the way, I've had a broken femur twice and those pains weren't half as bad as the killer blood pressure machine they used on me a few weeks ago when I went in with my sprained ankle. They left me alone with it and it seemed to think it would get a better reading if it just bit my arm clear off.
 
Andie White said:
That is hilarious, Marie! I've had enough of those ER events to "get" it all.

By the way, I've had a broken femur twice and those pains weren't half as bad as the killer blood pressure machine they used on me a few weeks ago when I went in with my sprained ankle. They left me alone with it and it seemed to think it would get a better reading if it just bit my arm clear off.
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I really HATE those electronic blood pressure machines. It seems like they never position the cuff correctly and they just inflate much too tight. I never really trust the readings from those things.
 
Andie White said:
That is hilarious, Marie! I've had enough of those ER events to "get" it all.

By the way, I've had a broken femur twice and those pains weren't half as bad as the killer blood pressure machine they used on me a few weeks ago when I went in with my sprained ankle. They left me alone with it and it seemed to think it would get a better reading if it just bit my arm clear off.
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My goodness, could you reach the thing to take it off, I took mine off a few er visits back.
 
Marie Mallory said:
My goodness, could you reach the thing to take it off, I took mine off a few er visits back.
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No, I was flat on my back with my foot up for display and the machine was behind me. Next time we're going to have a little talk before I get hooked up. I know there are wrist cuffs, less accurate, but still okay.

As Ken Anderson says the reading is going to be off if you're writhing in pain. The machine read me at 230 when it's usually around 150.
 
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