07-20-15, 02:08 AM | |
Join Date: Aug 2012
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Circuslady - thank you for sharing your story! I have been a gymnastics fan since I was a child - and the only sport I indulged in a a preteen was gymnastics. My 16 year old daughter was a competitive gymnast (high level) and is now a competitive cheerleader. I lived vicariously thru her gymnastics for years, while letting my own fitness goals slack. Your story says it is not too late for me. I want to be back on the mat - it's not too late.
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07-20-15, 09:06 AM | ||
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: New York City
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Remembering from a challenge I'd chanced to be in for a bit. Anita. I could only imagine the cognitive benefits to the scientific research she's done from that point forward, from all that acrobaticism. Never had the muscle endurance for much of all that. Or at least not all at once! Says me, who did gymnastics only in the womb; but who is all right with that. Because life! I remember how lap swimming, calisthenics and dance, helped me think better. Couldn't say that about other things. Maybe I didn't take to other things. Or they serve some other function.
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Disclosures: From 2/10/12 to 2/10/13 I'd won unlimited access to Myyogaonline -Bettina "If it doesn't challenge you, it doesn't change you"?! REALLY!! If it doesn't serve me, it doesn't save me!! |
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07-20-15, 09:11 AM | |
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: New York City
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Hey, you have got my number (much of the time). Minus the treadmill (in this tiny apartment?). Plus prescription orthotics in old lady runners. And a Walktime! audio cassette or something else by one of the old school College Professors of Walking ...
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Disclosures: From 2/10/12 to 2/10/13 I'd won unlimited access to Myyogaonline -Bettina "If it doesn't challenge you, it doesn't change you"?! REALLY!! If it doesn't serve me, it doesn't save me!! |
07-20-15, 09:37 AM | ||
Join Date: Nov 2010
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http://articles.mcall.com/1988-08-07...ss-gale-snyder Nowadays, with smart phones and playlists, we could make something like that for ourselves. I use Spotify a lot for workout playlists. |
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07-20-15, 02:37 PM | |
Join Date: Apr 2009
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While I still wouldn't classify myself as "very fit," here's my story in a nutshell.
Eleven years ago, I could barely drag the groceries into the house without becoming winded. Because of intense knee pain, I felt like I needed the Jaws of Life to get out of my car. So I started with Leslie and Ellen Barrett, bought myself a set of 3 lb and 5 lb weights, and branched out from there. Changed my diet drastically. Bought more weights and a weight bench, found out what I loved to do, and then did it. I had been maintaining my fitness level but not making progress, so I recently pushed myself waaaay out of my comfort zone and started working with a personal trainer. I'm in my fourth week of lifting heavy and I it. Am still very much a work in progress rather than a success story, but I WILL get there come hell or high water. Oh, and I just celebrated my 62nd birthday.
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07-20-15, 04:17 PM | ||
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: New York City
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Thanks. Now I know, in miles, the walking distance she covers on the 2nd side (done with a certain form that does add to the exertion value): 3 miles! I kept copping to less distance ...
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Disclosures: From 2/10/12 to 2/10/13 I'd won unlimited access to Myyogaonline -Bettina "If it doesn't challenge you, it doesn't change you"?! REALLY!! If it doesn't serve me, it doesn't save me!! |
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07-20-15, 09:16 PM | |
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Alberta, Canada
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I don't know why, but this made me chuckle all day!
I enjoyed and am inspired by everyone's stories! I was young, active and slim when I started working out, so mine wasn't really a turnaround. (Of those three attributes, I am still active, ha ha.) I starting working out to help quit smoking - I think it really helped me achieve that goal. Every time my lungs hurt I'd think - 'You're 21 - your lungs shouldn't be hurting!'.
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