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01-20-19, 09:38 AM | |
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Texas
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I'm 48 and I still love high intensity workouts with a mix of high and moderate impact. I'm still teaching 9 classes a week after 20 years of teaching but only 5 of them are intense.
Like others here, intense workouts clear my mind and keep me sane. As I've gotten older I've started incorporating foam rolling and stretching. Occasionally I'll do Yin Yoga from Travis Eliot's Ultimate Yogi when I'm feeling really tight in the hips and hamstrings. I take the weekends off from intensity and just focus on heavy compound lifting. I've had injuries in the past but thankfully no joint issues. Usually they're caused by muscle tightness and imbalance. Hopefully by maintaining balance I'll be able to keep doing what I love for years to come. Laura |
01-20-19, 09:43 AM | ||
Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: Wisconsin
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01-20-19, 10:33 AM | |
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: upstate NY
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I'll be 54 this week and I LOVE a good sweatfest.
I do keep it mostly low impact, or do higher impact moves on my jumpsport, but love the feeling of pushing myself and the endorphins I get. So I guess I prefer high intensity, low impact, but I know how to modify any workout to make them that way. What I'm really bad at is incorporating yoga or foam rolling or stretching workouts and I need to do that more. I have this old mindset from when I was younger that doing those workouts were a waste of time because they don't burn as many calories and I don't have all the time in the world to work out. But, I know that is incorrect thinking, and sometimes my body really feels my age |
01-20-19, 12:09 PM | |
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Ohio
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I'll be 44 this year, and I think for me there's a difference between intensity and impact. I can run six miles at a moderate pace to break an intense sweat, burn a TON of calories, and fuel up on those feel-good, stress-busting endorphins, but I also wouldn't call that "high impact," which I've always hated even when I was in my 20s. It's not even join pain for me, it's the explosive movements that are just sort of not feasible with my particular physiology, I've figured out (my legs are very short respective to my frame, and I'm a pear shape with heavy thighs even though I'm slender, which means that using my legs for explosive moves is weirdly difficult). I do HIIT training and modify some of it, but mostly I do keep it very intense, but then I also like doing slow, sustained weight lifting sessions, yoga, and Pilates. For me, it's consistency and variety: consistency of working out on average 6 days a week for 30-120 minutes a day, and the variety of mixing lengths, intensity, and type of workout so I don't get bored and maintain muscle confusion. Other than specific exercises that are tough for me due to injury or my aforementioned physiology, I do not think I have "lightened up" my workouts one bit as I've gotten older. If anything, I have increased my intensity.
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01-20-19, 12:37 PM | ||
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01-20-19, 01:01 PM | |
Join Date: May 2008
Location: On Canada 💗
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I am 46, and am loving lower intensity workouts. That said.. I also like to kick it up still once in a while.. feels good and its fun.. but not all the time.. makes me too hungry and sore. I'm loving LEK Fit Bounce and Sculpt. Bounce is a mix.. cardio on the rebounder and some high impact floor.. and sculpting. I love it all.. but the floor part makes me feel like I still got it without going over board. I can keep up with those 20 year old's just fine!!! I also bought Hamelin's 6 month cardio series, once workout is cardio sculpt and low impact, the other is high impact cardio and I love it!
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01-20-19, 01:01 PM | |
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: NH
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Thank you for this! I consider 60+ middle aged as well.
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