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One issue with the intensity thing. In my experience, as you age, it gets harder, and harder to up the intensity without incurring injury, and if you're injured

by mftb 4y ago

One issue with the intensity thing. In my experience, as you age, it gets harder, and harder to up the intensity without incurring injury, and if you're injured it's harder to exercise at all.

AtlasBarfed 4y ago
As an aging (50-something) fitness nazi, the key to this is having several different activities of varying impact levels that you can use to attain high intensity. Spinning classes, running, swimming, HIIT / Crossfit derivatives (man be careful with that though), or the elliptical machines. Even aqua aerobics can work well. And I don't think you need a 40 minute zone 4 workout. You can probably do intervals in zone 4 with as much recovery as you need over 20 minutes and induce a lot of (beneficial) stress. Interval training is the key to really good fitness, especially on limited time budgets.
- mftb 4y ago
  Couldn't agree more about the multiple activities thing. It's helped me out a couple of different ways, consistency definitely being one.
- m463 4y ago
  I found with the pandemic slowing down, used exercise equipment is plentiful. Elyptical, rowing machines, stairmasters, all types of weights... breaks things up and helps to easily get exercise into your schedule.
gregwebs 4y ago
I used to tackle this issue by spending more time warming up than actually exercising. I am now using specific strengthening exercises from the kneesovertoesguy program to make my lower body more robust. I am not spending a lot of time on this but am seeing encouraging signs where I can engage in more vigorous activities with less warmup and less pain. If you have any pain (other than muscle exertion pain) during exercise, or even joint discomfort, etc, that's a potential road to injury that you have to step back and address. I stopped lifting heavy weights for now while I focus instead on improving my weak spots.

by mftb 4y ago

One issue with the intensity thing. In my experience, as you age, it gets harder, and harder to up the intensity without incurring injury, and if you're injured it's harder to exercise at all.

AtlasBarfed 4y ago

As an aging (50-something) fitness nazi, the key to this is having several different activities of varying impact levels that you can use to attain high intensity. Spinning classes, running, swimming, HIIT / Crossfit derivatives (man be careful with that though), or the elliptical machines. Even aqua aerobics can work well. And I don't think you need a 40 minute zone 4 workout. You can probably do intervals in zone 4 with as much recovery as you need over 20 minutes and induce a lot of (beneficial) stress. Interval training is the key to really good fitness, especially on limited time budgets.

mftb 4y ago
Couldn't agree more about the multiple activities thing. It's helped me out a couple of different ways, consistency definitely being one.
m463 4y ago
I found with the pandemic slowing down, used exercise equipment is plentiful. Elyptical, rowing machines, stairmasters, all types of weights... breaks things up and helps to easily get exercise into your schedule.

gregwebs 4y ago

I used to tackle this issue by spending more time warming up than actually exercising. I am now using specific strengthening exercises from the kneesovertoesguy program to make my lower body more robust. I am not spending a lot of time on this but am seeing encouraging signs where I can engage in more vigorous activities with less warmup and less pain. If you have any pain (other than muscle exertion pain) during exercise, or even joint discomfort, etc, that's a potential road to injury that you have to step back and address. I stopped lifting heavy weights for now while I focus instead on improving my weak spots.