60 yrs and up
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@LolaGatto I know how difficult it is to be on even semi bed/couch rest, especially when you are doing things like riding horses for fun, but you can do this. You have time to plan your meals and you can still lose weight without exercising. You'll be in much better shape when you get back to normal. I'm rooting for you!3
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Beautiful @BCLadybug888 ! You go on so many wonderful trips! You should be a travel agent!
LOL - so last year after recovering from retiring, I signed up to be a travel agent!! But I quit this year as I really can't handle work-related stress anymore it seems, and hard to control the workload - I want to be able to work just a few hours a week, but if you are someone's travel agent, and suddenly booking a group trip for extended family - it can get quite hectic!5 -
@LolaGatto , glad you found this group. I too was very discouraged 1.5yrs ago when, after an injury couldn't exercise at all & gained back 18 of the 50lbs I lost. This was in 2020 & I did maintain the new weight till 1.5yrs ago & never thought I'd lose it & accepted it but I stated listening to a podcast & it encouraged me to make small changes which I did & it took a year but I'm down 21lbs!! I have a friend who is in a wheelchair & she lost 70lbs so it goes to show you really don't need to workout to lose weight. I was still able to walk (my dogs) but that was it. I've started back to the gym about a month ago, some treadmill but mostly swimming. I don't think I can go back to the level I was doing but I'll do what I can & I sure feel better doing a little more. It also turned my habit changes into normal after all this time so good things did come out of it. Welcome & hope to hear more from you6
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Welcome @LolaGatto . So sorry about your injury. Start slowly and weigh and record ALL your food. After you are better and your doc gives you the go ahead you can add in exercise. I started with just walking a few minutes a day and built from there. Don't get discouraged. Slow weight loss is best, and it will help you build habits you can maintain for the rest of your life.2
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First time searching groups….61 years old and at my heaviest weight and feeling disheartened. Had a horse related major injury and still on semi bed/couch rest. Started yet another attempt today to eat better and lose weight….
Welcome! As others have mentioned you can lose weight without exercising. I commend you on your effort. If you are able to lose a bit now you may find it a little easier to start moving once you have the go ahead to do so. Losing just 5% of my starting weight helped make it a little easier for me to get up on my feet when I first made my lifestyle change. Wishing you a speedy recovery!4 -
First time searching groups….61 years old and at my heaviest weight and feeling disheartened. Had a horse related major injury and still on semi bed/couch rest. Started yet another attempt today to eat better and lose weight….
I read somewhere that we eat less to lose weight. And we exercise for our health. So yes, you can lose weight without exercise.....but it's sure not as much fun. Wishing you a speedy recovery3 -
Hi all, it sure is quiet here! Hope everyone is having a nice summer and managing to stay cool! I just wanted to share a quick update. In a nutshell, I quit my job in June due to too much stress and have been on disability since. With the stress gone, and no stress eating for over a month, I had a blood test the other day and wanted to share the results.
Hemoglobin A1c went from 6.6 to 6.0.
Cholesterol went from 365 to 148.
LDL Cholesterol went from 290 to 108.
Glucose went from 121 to 100.
WBC went from 30 to 6.
I take my blood pressure daily and it is down from 200/94 to usually a number like 120/74 (this morning's BP), and I've lost 19 pounds.
I walk about a mile a day.
My hope is that this encourages someone. Things look very different after just a little over a month, and my hope in getting healthy has been restored.
I also wanted to thank so many people who posted advice and suggestions for me back when I first signed up.10 -
Apologies for the fuzzy photo, but this is a thing that rarely happens**. It's a whole quad rowing shell in which all of the rowers are 60+. (** We row mixed ages, 20s to 70s, so there's often at least one person in the boat under 60.)
That's me at the left (in bow, because we face the stern), two guys in their early 60s in the middle, and a woman who just turned 78 at right in the stroke seat. This was taken by another club member in a different boat, on one of our regular bridge-to-bridge round-trip rows, just under 7k - takes about an hour, including a couple of water breaks.
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Apologies for the fuzzy photo, but this is a thing that rarely happens**. It's a whole quad rowing shell in which all of the rowers are 60+. (** We row mixed ages, 20s to 70s, so there's often at least one person in the boat under 60.)
That's me at the left (in bow, because we face the stern), two guys in their early 60s in the middle, and a woman who just turned 78 at right in the stroke seat. This was taken by another club member in a different boat, on one of our regular bridge-to-bridge round-trip rows, just under 7k - takes about an hour, including a couple of water breaks.
Cool!
So Ann, if you are all facing backwards - who steers?? I thought one person would still face forward...like a lookout if nothing else. With 4 people rowing, I imagine you could go pretty fast!
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Congrats Marci!!!!2
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BCLadybug888 wrote: »Apologies for the fuzzy photo, but this is a thing that rarely happens**. It's a whole quad rowing shell in which all of the rowers are 60+. (** We row mixed ages, 20s to 70s, so there's often at least one person in the boat under 60.)
That's me at the left (in bow, because we face the stern), two guys in their early 60s in the middle, and a woman who just turned 78 at right in the stroke seat. This was taken by another club member in a different boat, on one of our regular bridge-to-bridge round-trip rows, just under 7k - takes about an hour, including a couple of water breaks.
Cool!
So Ann, if you are all facing backwards - who steers?? I thought one person would still face forward...like a lookout if nothing else. With 4 people rowing, I imagine you could go pretty fast!
@BCLadybug888, the person sitting in bow steers, or more accurately is responsible for steering. So, in the photo: Me, at the left-hand side of photo.
Some multi-rower boats do have a coxswain (pronounced cox'n, usually just called "cox"), who faces in the direction of travel, and one of whose major duties is steering. (They do other things, too.) People think they shout "stroke, stroke, stroke", but that never happens, like never ever in my 20 years of rowing experience. The cox steers with knobs on strings on each side of the boat that connect to a rotating vertical shaft that connects to a rudder underneath the boat.
If there's no cox, bow watches the direction of travel, either by turning their head, or by wearing one of those little rear-view mirrors like cyclists use, or both. Bow can do a little steering him/herself, but also can call out for the rowers in the boat to row "hard port" or "hard starboard" as needed, usually in the form "hard port for X strokes", then they count the strokes.
Boats generically can go pretty fast, with elite rowers especially. We aren't elite rowers. We do OK for well-seasoned folks, but usually are somewhere in the vicinity of 4-point-something miles per hour (6-7 kph) during most of our rows. Quite a bit of force if we hit something at speed, though. (Don't ask how I know. ).
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I would love to do that. I like using the rowing machine & like being on the water3
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Only four mph? I thought for sure those shells would FLY.
I should see what I can do on flat water. With current I can go pretty fast in a canoe. I figure the local river usually flows about 4mph more or less. The other day, trying to catch up with some folks who had gotten ahead while I stopped to fish, I noticed I was going over 9mph, but again, it was in fast current.1 -
I would love to do that. I like using the rowing machine & like being on the water
It is fun! It goes faster than a standard canoe or kayak,
It's a little technical, but achievable by anyone with normal physical mobility. We routinely have 60+ y/o people in our learn-to-row classes, sometimes 70s. The oldest person I know who took the class was 81. The hardest things are getting into the boat (it is very low) and out again, and - for some - carrying the bigger boats.
Carrying takes some upper body strength - well, the lifting in order to carry. The singles, even the wider ones, are fairly easy to carry using 2 people, no need for major strength. They weigh maybe somewhere in the 40s pounds (20-ish kg). The 2- and 4-person boats (doubles and quads) are heavier and more awkward. The quads are probably 115-ish pounds (52-ish kg). Normally, 4 rowers carry a 4-person boat, but if we have enough people around we can use 5 carriers. Our club is tiny, so often when we take out a quad, only 4 people are present.
This is 4 people lifting a quad, either about to put it in the water or just taking it out, not sure which.
Basic swimming skills are essential: The boats, especially the racing singles, are pretty tippy.
This is an example of a racing single. I wish I could find a better (more end-on) photo, but this is me (before weight loss) rowing my racing single. It's about 26 feet (8m) long, about a foot (0.3m) wide at the water line, weighs just a in the low 30s pounds (14-ish kg).
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Only four mph? I thought for sure those shells would FLY.
I should see what I can do on flat water. With current I can go pretty fast in a canoe. I figure the local river usually flows about 4mph more or less. The other day, trying to catch up with some folks who had gotten ahead while I stopped to fish, I noticed I was going over 9mph, but again, it was in fast current.
@mtaratoot, I'm much faster (on flat water, minimal current) in a rowing shell than either the Wenonah Advantage (canoe) or my Current Designs Willow (kayak). That I'm slow in the abstract is an individual limitation, right? I'm sure you're a better canoeist than I am.
The 4-something mph is what Garmin says as average for a whole row, total distance per time. That would include some breaks.
Today's quad row was 4.4mph (7.1kph) over the whole row, 5.8mph (9.3 kph) moving average (which would include starts, slowdowns for various reasons, turns, maybe drifting during breaks, etc.), 9mph (14.5kph) peak speed.
We don't have lots of current, and the time/moving time for the full row are going to be a reasonably even mix of upstream/downstream, upwind/downwind - close to zero net effect of wind/current.
I tried to look up some good rowing race times for you, but the main regatta results site seems to be down right now, so I can't see masters nationals results.1 -
You're going to tempt me into going out to join the Masters even though I've never rowed crew. I bet I'd love it, but I don't have time to make commitments to that kind of team.
When you come visit, I'll rent or borrow a nice tandem or you can paddle one of my solo boats.4 -
I'm 68. Got sick for a year and gained alot of weight due to inactivity and depression. Finally ready to work a plan back to health. Particularly giving up added sugar...my kryptonite.6
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You're going to tempt me into going out to join the Masters even though I've never rowed crew. I bet I'd love it, but I don't have time to make commitments to that kind of team.
When you come visit, I'll rent or borrow a nice tandem or you can paddle one of my solo boats.
@mtaratoot, we're scullers, two oars per person. There are singles. It's not just sweep rowing/crew/big boats/teams.
BTW,
That's the Masters Nationals result from this year in the category my rowing lineup from Saturday would compete in, if we competed. (Mixed = men & women, at least 2 women; G = average age of the 4 rowers, 65-69; 4x = four rower sculling boat, no coxswain.) It's a 1k distance.
If I did the math right, the winning time is about 10.2 mph/16.4 kph. (No way we'd hold our peak time from Saturday for a whole km.)
Other readers: In rowing, "masters" just means people who are post-collegiate, age 21 and over, who don't choose to compete in "open" races, i.e., against all ages in one race with no age handicapping. Masters Nationals is all age grouped or age handicapped, I believe. You'd expect the winners to be among the best/fastest such rowers in the US, though some fast people don't compete.
At this years event, there were many competitors 60+ in age, quite a few 70+, at least one 85+.
I'll shut up about rowing now. For a while. Probably.3 -
@LolaGatto, @MaryZZZZ, hello and welcome to the group! Like you, I had multiple times during weight loss when I either was ill, injured, or recovering from surgery, and ditto with various episodes when first working on fitness improvement. I know it is really challenging to deal with those activity limitations from illness or injury. We need calories and nutrition during the acute phase of healing, too, which makes it extra challenging. Hang in there, progress is possible IME!
Also welcome to anyone else who may be new to the thread that I may've missed. This is a good, supportive group of people!
@marci320, congratulations on all your health improvements: That's the best.
How is everyone else doing?6
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