This is good stuff, Steve. I’m 40 now, and would love to say the same at 65. What does your weekly walk, strength, KB program look like?
Thank you for the kind words,
@Sean Mulcahy.
Walking: I live near the edge of the downtown area, what we call the CBD or central business district, small town about 25,000 people in New Jersey, and most of my walking is for practical purposes: the grocery store, the bank, the dry cleaner, and that sort of thing. I take the opportunities as they arise to lengthen my walk some days, e.g., my walk to my favorite grocery store is about 3/4 of a mile, but if I go the long way, then it's about a mile longer. I walked to a doctor's appointment last week, which was about 1-1/2 miles each way; I walked to return something we'd borrowed from someone else in town a couple of days ago, and that was a mile or two each way. So I typically walk most days, usually a couple of miles, sometimes I miss a day or two, and some days I'm up to 5 or 6 miles. Sometimes my wife and I will walk to the next town up, have a cup of coffee there, and walk home, usually a weekend for that.
Unless I'm short on time, I don't "power" walk but rather the opposite - it's a time when I like to be as relaxed as possible, looking to undo the tensions of sitting at a desk or piano or whatever else, and I often do Buteyko reduced breathing practice for part or all of some of my walks.
Strength and kettlebells: It varies, sometimes with a focus on an upcoming powerlifting meet, and I cycle things in an out of it, e.g., I was working on my "skin the cat" and my front lever on the rings for a while, now I'm working on pullups where I use one hand but only a finger or two of the other hands - I guess you'd call those "assisted one-arm" pullups/chinups. I'm currently bench pressing and have a bench-only meet in December, and I'm also trying to get back to something of a barbell squat. If I don't have a particular plan, I tend to deadlift a barbell, 75% 1RM or so, for 10-20 total reps per session, 3 times a week, plus some overhead lift - might be a kettlebell press, might be a barbell press.
On alternate days, I do getups and kettlebells swings without a big plan, varying the volume, the weight, the format.
I take days off as I feel I need to and as the rest of my life allows.
I weigh myself every morning.
-S-