I think that's a pretty reasonable list, I'm probably getting a little slower than that on the runs but I haven't been running short distances much in the last year, the older I get the slower I like to go... I would add squats and deadlifts. I always feel better when I'm at least occasionally trying to lift something really heavy, 2x bodyweight for at least 3 reps on deadlifts and 1.5x bodyweight for squats is always my goal, I haven't dipped below that for a while.
I'm 55 yo (unfortunately) and do a lot of the same exercises you have listed. The only two I couldn't is the bench body weight (don't do weights - of course I should but never have) and 10 pulls ups (that about 7 more that I normally do!). I do some sort of workout 6 days a week and its such a routine I just do without thinking really.
I am not much of a music guy. Hiking the hills and work are what keeps me half way fit. I love a good cream cheese danish, problem is at my age I can no longer eat just about anything with out consequences. I so much as sniff a cream cheese danish and it is a guaranteed two pounds heavier the next morning.What's your preferred soundtrack while you cover those miles?
At 67, I find that slow and easy will get a lot done. Cannot do pushups (I call em "let downs") any more after two shoulder surgeries, I hike as much as I can. Have been in the midst of moving - headed to ID in two weeks - so my dumbells and bench are packed. Trying to get weight down and keep it there, build some strength, and keep the legs moving. I ain't 50 no more, I was pretty bulletproof in my mind then, but nowadays I look long and hard before I leap. Or maybe just hop a little...
That's a good list. I'm in a few years from 40 and I have been focusing mainly on functional fitness since halfway through my military days. We had a program there called perres (forgive me if anyone thinks I misspelled it) it was focused on building functional fitness in relation to military related things at the time, rucking, core and full body type of things that would smoke you even when you didn't think it would. The main trainer was the strength/conditioning coach at USC during the early early to mid 2000s when they were national champ contenders every year. I really enjoyed the training they would have available on a daily basis and they would come up with really mentally difficult workouts prior to deployment. We completed something they called the man test with was a 10 mile ruck with 40lbs followed by a 1,000 meter swim in the pool in full camis. They divided it up by enablers and operators which made for some friendly competition. It reminds me of what I do now with mountain tough which is easily the best workout programs I've ever done. I'm in the best shape of my life even though the scale says I'm heavier than my high school days and wearing the same size clothes from those days. So I don't pay much attention to the scale anyways.
Thirty minutes after walking into that bakery, I am going to have to schedule an appointment with the cardiologist.
It was sublime. And I’m now on a diet.
My favorite bakery in NJ used to have a cheese danish and they put apricots on it. God I would crush those. I am happy they stopped making them due to the costs of apricots. I just could not pass them up.
