Have you ever looked at your tummy when you are in the ‘up’ position of a old fashioned push up?
Terrifying, and gross at the same time. For me anyway …
Sorry y’all, that saggy skin and globs of stored excess fat is … UGLY. Ya just can’t ‘candy coat’ that evidence of 60 years eating the Standard American Diet into anything that would make a ‘snowflake’ feel happy and worthy of a ‘participation award’.
OH! and that floppy thing under your bicep when the arm is in the ‘show off my big (?) muscle pose.
OMG.
I ‘need’ to lose 16 more pounds.
So far I have no pictures of my hanging belly posted …. have you noticed?
Imagine when I say I ‘need to lose 16 more pounds’, and multiply that picture above by three… and that is what is hanging from by wrinkled belly when I am in the position of a ‘pushup’ ( or earth down… what ever).
And lets dispel another stupid MYTH. You don’t need that extra fat for winter, or starvation days after the end of the world as we know it… Your excess weight will probably cause you to be on of the 98% of the population to die in the first 12 months anyway.
Fat stored in excess is toxic storage and your body does not need it. In most cases fat is just not necessary to healthy living and it is UGLY.
Sorry.
My work out consists of some ‘old man friendly’ moves…. and that old man has never worked out much, if any, in his life…. except High School… between 1969 – 1973.
I start the workout with 10 pushups with my hands on the seat of a chair, then 10 ‘squats’, 10 leg lifts, 10 donkey kicks with the right leg, then the left. and between each kick, I slowly lift off the floor, to my chest a 30 pound weight. Then I do 10 pushups with my knees on the floor.
I go through this three times and then I go to the treadmill.
The speed is set at 2mph. I intend to walk, and not fall down…
The elevation gets to #10 in the first few minutes.
For about 5-7 minutes I lift 5 pound weights while walking.
For another 5-7 minutes I lift 10 pound weights …. still at 2mph.
Then I lift 15 pounds till I can’t lift anymore… again while at 2mph.
By now there is a good reason to have the ceiling fan on high speed, a dry towel, and a couple of water bottles within reach.
By this point, I increase the speed to 2.9 and start jogging.
Mostly about 5-10 minutes, but one day I went 20 minutes at the jog.
Most of the time I have the 5 pound weights in hand while jogging.
By this time, I am rolling in a lot of perspiration and breathing pretty deep.
The neat thing is there is no pain except in my right knee … that old foot ball injury while playing against Cooper High back in 1972.
But I can breath DEEP the whole time.
THAT is something new since the weight loss, and the By Pass.
Breathing deeeeep and full, without pain or a cough coming on is a wonderful feeling.
Before the Heart Attack, I couldn’t push the lawn mower 10 steps before I would have to stop and catch my breath… and that only after I had checked out the surrounding area making sure no one was watching. I couldn’t let anyone see me out of breath … ya know?!
I have not ‘maxed’ out on the deep breathing issue since the surgery.
And remember, the weight loss of 79 pounds was without workouts nor exercise of any kind. I just ate that weight off.
But now since the issue of looking like a old man with nothing but skin and bones sagging off my arms and tummy, I have started working out since… August 2017 maybe?
After I jog a while I have been at the workout session for an hour or so. One day I went nearly an hour and 20 minutes.
If I didn’t have other things to do, I think I could go longer. I am hearing other WFPB folks who workout or jog, talk about ‘hitting the wall’, and then sometimes talk about getting past ‘the wall’ where they enter some altered state of consciousnesses where they enter the Twilight Zone and can run 30 miles and only want to stop because they have come to the edge of the world, or they have to pee.
It seems the brain begins to pump out certain hormones that keep you happy during extended workouts and you DON’T MOAN so much.
(Git it? Hormones>< moans ?? )
So, I feel pretty good after these workouts. As I said, I have NEVER been a person to do any exercise program at all, and I figure after retirement, why not?
Skin and bones my as_
My youngest son, Mr J sent some weights for a Christmas Gift.
These adjust to different weights up to 50 pounds each.
I hope someday soon to look like Marc Ramirez … One of my HEROES!
Check out his story! (and watch that movie ‘Eating You Alive’)
https://www.forksoverknives.com/author/marc-ramirez/#gs.qxn0z5A
Also watch ‘Forks Over Knives’ on Netflix!
I think if I can get some nice workout gloves, it would help, don’t you?
OK, I am really getting into this thing so much…
(How much is it oldmanskinandbones.com?!)
Thanks for asking!
It is ‘so much’ , I have two mirrors placed so I can watch the muscles ‘ripple’ while working out! PLUS there are four framed pictures where I can see the reflection of this body being redefined !
I am really impressed!
(Maybe I could sell live video links to other ‘OLD MEN’ who wanted to get upgrades on the old bodies? Hummmm, ? AND of course the more’Senior’ LADIES who just want to admire this art work of a male body rippling during a slow walk on the treadmill with a painful look on my face resembling pain……)
Ok, we may want to put that idea on hold and consult some Public Perception/PR companies first … … …
Now, back to the PLAY LIST.
I have a fairly diverse Play List.
Travis Tritt (Start the Car),
one Garth Brooks (you just can’t go wrong with ‘Standing Outside the Fire’),
a couple by Red Hot Chili Pepper ( I won’t give the titles because I would be in trouble with Aunt Helen for those…)
and for that same reason I will only state that a few selections of Atlantis Morissette from the album “Jagged Little Pill’ made my list…
Already Gone, and Life in the Fast Lane by the Eagles
American Woman, Lie to Me, Aqualung, Bad Case of Loving You, Back Up Against the Wall, Born to be Wild, Breaking the Law (I believe 5 selections from LeRoi Masy’s Play List) China Grove, Cocaine, Damned Drunk(Ronnie Dunn), several from Jonnie Lang, Dave Matthews (Drive in Drive Out, Too Much !) Enter Sandman (Metallica) Bostons ‘Foreplay/Long Time’, Give Me Three Steps, Whats Your Name…
One from Kid Rock, Big and Rich, The Doors, JoDee Messina,
and more
I am looking for more in case you have suggestions. Seen them to oldmanskinandbones@gmail.com , thanks!
As you can see, only one or two are songs from the last months (‘Damned Drunk’ by Ronnie Dunn) { Wonderful LOVE SONG!} is the ‘newest’ song …
Most of my stuff is from two decades in the past…. or more.
I just have not been introduced into much new. Even the Playlist from LeRoi is ‘old’. (Sorry brah…)
Eye of the Tiger. I do not have that one on the list. Not any RAP or Gangster. “I wanta Be A Cowboy” with Kid Rock is the closest to that ….
Some of this stuff is from the 60’s.
Mercy.
Ok, I need to get to the work out and get these fat flabby stored toxins out of this tummy. (LORD KNOWS I don’t need to lose any off my BUTT because it is GONE and there is nothing remaining….)
I do not count calories, I do not measure protein, I FEAR NO CARBS!
oldmanskinandbones.com
(feel the burn….. or like the Scout Master used to say, “… you boys don’t stand so close to the camp fire!!)
oh yeah!