There is a lot of luck involved where someone may get it from a single exposure, while others may go through many exposures without getting it, simply by being lucky enough that none of their exposures was with someone who had the virus and was contagious, or they just got lucky even when exposed to someone contagious.
Imagine rolling two six-sided dice whenever you encounter someone. If they total 2, then that person has the virus and is contagious. Only in that case would indoors/outdoors, length of time of presence, distance of presence, and mask wearing would matter for a second roll of the two six-sided dice, in terms of what number the dice have to total for you to get the virus. Some people just get lucky, and some people just get unlucky.
But you can improve your odds by avoiding unnecessary encounters, going outdoors, minimizing continuous presence, keeping distance, and wearing masks when not able to do the previous.
What’s ironic is that those same power lifters, who are eating to maintain or increase their weight and power numbers, always are admiring lean abs in the gym.
@DeeCee36 enjoy that swim in the ocean! What a fun active day you have!
Today was a cross training morning for me. And I liked it. To deal with the early morning darkness, I hopped on the airdyne first for 5.5 miles then headed outside where still not light but not DARK and ran 1.5 miles and then did a walk cool down.
Helps make up for the hours sitting at a desk to work!
We had my favorite kind of exercise today … our weekly daytrip to Rocky Mountain National Park. Granted, it was only about 2 miles total, but lots of up/down. It was our first time seeing Alberta Falls, a popular hiking destintation with very pretty scenery (https://foursquare.com/v/alberta-falls/4c2771a0a852c9289e34e86c/photos ) that my husband wanted to see/photograph.
@abasket - Yes, my H is retired too. He is 7 years older and retired last year. He’s 65 now and on medicare, so that allowed me to retire Aug 1. He was already in the groove of arranging weekly timed-entry park tickets for himself… I have happily been tagging along every week, except 2 weeks ago after the unseasonable blizzard weather. We had hoped to be traveling the world, but in the meantime we are embracing the daytrip options.
^ The Barbell Prescription author, Starting Strength coach & Greysteel gym owner Dr. Jonathan Sullivan preaches to women about the importance of strength training with barbells.
Nice video clips of mere mortals lifting & getting strong!
An hour walk with some running thrown in there this morning. A little muggy and a little dark to start. I don’t like losing the daylight. @sushiritto you are a beast!
There’s one still photo of a woman performing a split jerk. How did that get in there? Our gym has zero older women.
In terms of adding weight and going from 147 to 155, I’d say eat clean, don’t overeat, keep doing what you’re doing (squat, bench, deadlift, OH press, pull-ups, accessories, etc.) and whatever your weight is, it is. IMO, it’s all about body fat % and not weight.
Thursday, so I’m taking a day off today per schedule. Yesterday, the two owners of the gym NOW want to lose weight. And they were trying to figure out what the loser would have to do as their “prize.” The irony here, as I just mentioned in a post above, is that both of them, as power lifters do, wanted to add weight in order to add to their power lifting numbers. ?
Power Cleans are programmed in the Starting Strength Novice Linear Progression, but people of a certain age — ahem — are encouraged to weigh risk-benefit and have permission to skip.
There are several (male) SS coaches on IG who have cut weight while maintaining their strength.
I’m not overly concerned about aesthetics and I think I have reasonable expectations for my genetics and post-menopausal female-ness & how strict I’m willing to be re: food. Haha!
Good things take time! I’m looking forward to what my second year brings!
@Midwest67 Power cleans are pretty straight-forward, but requires good shoulders and reasonable wrist mobility.
What I find amusing, recently, is that there a couple young power lifters who are now introducing front squats to their routine (works different muscles) and instead of developing the mobility in their wrists to get the barbell in the proper front rack (shoulder) position, they “cheat” by taking the weight off the rack with their hands crossed (like they’re choking themselves) at the neck to maintain barbell stability.
Besides looking strange/funny, they can’t even come close to their back squat numbers, because the crossed hands “technique” doesn’t work with any significant weight on your shoulders. Just too unstable. I’ve showed them proper way, but they just refuse to spend the required time to practice it.
One young guy, who’s just really super nice and happy all the time, back squats well over 500 lbs, but can only front squat about 135 lbs. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
@sushiritto – Silver Sneakers is a free gym membership that is included with many Medicare Supplements and Medicare Advantage Plans – it has a network of more than 17,000 participating gyms & fitness centers throughout the US, with many major chains offering the program – it can be used at any gym within the network.
There are plenty of old people at my gym (when it’s open – Covid pretty much shut things down – they were able to open for a about 4 weeks during the summer, and they have just been able to open again but restricted to 10% capacity, and of course Covid is something of a deterrent for the 65+ group to go anywhere)
But I asked simply because I think the reason you don’t see older women at your gym is that they gravitate to the gyms that accept the senior plans… I know that in normal (non-Covid) times, my gym (a 24 hour fitness) offers classes geared to seniors.
I have had my gym membership on hold since Covid. Haven’t set foot in it since March. Am doing virtual/zoom personal training. Maybe other women are doing the same.
Well, I imagine this not just a women thing - older men likely doing the same thing!
My gym is the rec centers at the university where I work. One of them definitely had Silver Sneakers for a while. So, mixing the college students with the seniors! Good things!
I have not been to a gym since COVID. I’ll be outside as much as weather allows. As I heard on a podcast recently - “there’s no bad weather, only bad clothing”! Which is so true - you can buy gear for any weather to make outside activity comfortable and possible
I don’t belong to a gym- but am still only live streaming my yoga classes. There are limited slots in the studio for certain classes (and they fill up quickly). I prefer to run outside (and don’t mind running in the winter). Fortunately have a 13 year old treadmill in my basement.
I think a lot of residential community gyms and workplace gyms that are usually unstaffed have not reopened due to the sanitation requirements due to COVID. Just too risky. I prefer to be outside anyway, but the weight equipment was nice to have.
Hour outside this morning and increasing my running stretches. I’m a slow walker and certainly a slow jogger, so I’m not sure there’s much difference, but it feels like I’m improving.
I went for probably my last kayak of the year yesterday. That is sad, but the weather was unseasonably warm, the tides were in my favor, and the wind was calm. I did a route I had been meaning to do since moving here, including portage across a causeway.
I can tell you what I need to work on over the winter, my upper body strength! I have become soft in that I don’t need to transport my kayak anymore, so the lifting is not something I usually do anymore. I had the rack on my car a couple weekends ago so took the kayak to a different spot, plus the portage, was manageable but more challenging than I would prefer. It weighs probably 50lbs? The water sloshing around in the hull didn’t help either.
My husband said he’ll get me the lift assist thing, but I would prefer getting stronger! Besides my mostly daily walk and longer kayak or bike on the weekend, I have said I need to add some weights in once or twice a week, just need to prioritize that, esp as the kayak first and bike next will be coming to an end soon.
Maybe we should start a strength training challenge here! Some accountability to adding in some weights or upper body work. @Midwest67 can be out cheerleader for our hand weight work while she lives heavy buildings!!!
To deal with the early morning darkness, I hopped on the airdyne first for 5.5 miles then headed outside where still not light but not DARK and ran 1.5 miles and then did a walk cool down.
Our gym has zero older women.