Thoughts on Senior Exercise
August 2nd, 2011
Dear Readers, I recently returned from two a week vacation in Greece, and I promise you will hear all about it, including pictures. However, my time clock is still confused and I am sleeping all day and staying up all night. Since, I can’t do justice to a piece about ‘the food of the gods of Olympus’ right now, I offer the following, which I found in a folder labeled ‘ideas’. I’m not sure where I got it, but because it was in my handwriting, it didn’t come over the Internet. Maybe I read something similar and wrote my own version. I probably saved it because it’s about walking as exercise and I have been a walker for more years than I care to remember.
I began walking in my neighborhood, graduated to Lake Mayer, and ended up at Oglethorpe Mall with its year round climate control. I think the following is funny, and maybe we all need a good laugh or two right now, especially in the middle of this long, hot summer of 2011.
THE FUN OF WALKING
1. Walking 20 minutes each can add to your life. This will enable you, at the age of 85, to spend an additional five months in a nursing home.
2. My grandpa started walking five miles a day when he was 60yrs. old. Now, he is 97 and we have no idea where he is.
3. I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who I don’t like.
4. The only reason I would take up walking is so I could hear heavy breathing again.
5. I have to walk early in the morning before my brain figures out what I am doing.
6. I joined a health club last year to lose weight but haven’t lost a pound. Apparently, you have to actually go there.
7. Every time I hear the dirty word ‘exercise’, I wash my mouth out with chocolate.
8. I do have flabby thighs but fortunately my stomach covers them.
9. The advantage of exercising every day is so when you die, they’ll say “Well, he looks good doesn’t he?”
10. If you are going to try cross country skiing to lose weight, I suggest you start with a small country.
11. There is a good reason I haven’t exercised very much lately. Getting “over the hill” was exercise enough.
12.Everytime I start thinking too much about how I look, I have some wine. After a couple of glasses, I look just fine.
13. It’s only natural that we get heavier as we get older because there is a lot more information in our skulls. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
14. Laughter is the best exercise.
Stay cool!
This article can also be found at Coastal Senior HERE
