Let us know how it goes 🙂

Awesome website, you’re doing a great job and are an inspiration!
I am also one to keep changing my workouts, hence not much improvement although saying that cutting out processed carbs have helped. Will take your advice and stick to at least 2 KB days and 2 IT days to see the improvements on kb strength and see if i can lean down in the process…

Tia

Your posterior chain is getting stronger! This is great to hear 🙂 Well done!

Thanks Marianne. Ps. The greatest change since using your site is my back, it’s much stronger my posture has improved markedly. I was the girl who teachers poked in the back, was told to sit up, stand up straight so this is really great. I look more confident and feel it too.

I have only one suggestion. I only started my focus on fitness July 2011. Now it’s a priority in my life. I anticipate seeing myself improving more and more of the next many decades of my life. As I learn more I understand about my potential and I’m hungry to achieve it. But, you see… I’m going to be 64 years old later this month. So, although I consider myself a fitness newbie, I want to suggest that you remove “age” as a limiting factor.

Here’s the deal -> If over their lifetime a person doesn’t use their body and if they don’t give themselves good nutrition and if they don’t handle stress; well, YES, as they age they become weaker and sicker and convinced that they can’t be strong because of their “age.” But it really isn’t their age at all. It’s the cumulative impact of all those not-so-great decisions over the years.

If they (and I – arg!) had CONSISTENTLY followed a fitness program, age would NOT be an issue. OK.. maybe once a person hits their 90s, they MIGHT, and I mean MIGHT, need to slow down. ‘m guessing I’ll take offense at my own statement when I hit 90. lol.

My plan is to take a set of “fitness photos” on my birthday every year from now on. This year will be my first set. While my arms and shoulders are pretty well defined and stronger than most, I have some specific goals for my 65th birthday.

Something to consider????

Anyway, thanks for sharing your experience and all the best to you!!!

Lea

Hi Lea,

First of all thank you for stopping by. It’s great to hear about someone so determined to make fitness a priority AND succeeding at it! Kudos!

I totally understand where you are coming from, however I did not say that age was a limiting factor; I said that age could be a factor you need to consider in the full picture when deciding how often you should train AND the type of training you should do. And I did not say that it was only older folk that this applied to, because it also applies to when we are training kids and young teens.

You are right that the effects of the aging process are only magnified by poor lifestyle choices, however it is also the case that even the “healthiest” and most active people begin to require different training strategies as they age. Basically, there is natural wear and tear (there could even be more wear and tear on a person who has been very active their whole life), there are also changes in hormones, metabolism, the nervous system and recovery TENDS to take longer. Also, as people get older, their ability to shock absorb and even balance becomes more challenging. At what age this happens, will depend on the person, but aging is not something we can avoid. The body just slows down and cannot rest and repair as quickly as a young person.

I am talking in general terms here, and there are plenty of young folk who will have the same problems. But when I use myself as an example, I could recover quicker from doing MORE activity as a teenager that what I can now. I can also recover better now than 3 years ago, but I don’t expect the same level of recovery to continue into my 40’s, 50’s or 60’s etc. That being said, I will not give up doing my best and getting the most out of my training, and neither should anyone. The point is that some people are not as active as you or I, so age will be a factor that needs considered more. For that reason alone, I won’t remove it from the list –> you can pretend you never saw it there 😉

I hope you will stop by again and let us know how your training is going 🙂

Kind Regards,
Marianne

Great to hear, Tara! Happy New Year 🙂

Happy New Year, Marianne!! Thank you, i will look into it in a day or two. I’m happy now that I know I will be getting on a program, i am willing to pay!! lol Thanks again:-)