What is your favorite form of physical exercise?
To conclusions. Nothing burns as much calories as not given a subject sufficient thought before jumping to a conclusion and sticking to that conclusion regardless of how wrong one is. In fact, the more wrong, the more confident one is by the conclusion they jumped to.
Running, cycling and hiking come as second runners up. I enjoy any of the three and can do all three on a single day weather and energy levels permitting.
In future I will incorporate strength and resistance training to the regimen to help with weight control. I have noticed aerobic exercise is not sufficient for weight management.
Random thoughts 
Walking. It’s the only form of exercise I’ve ever been able to stick with over time, mostly because I can occupy my mind while doing it with podcasts, audio books, etc.
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For some reason I don’t usually including walking as a form exercise while I do a lot of walking.
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In my experience, it provides most of the health and wellness benefits, without the aches and pains I got from running or biking. Although some of that is an age thing.
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I think it is because for me walking is mostly about getting around
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There comes a point in your life when all the exercise in the world isn’t enough and sometimes too much at the same time. I had to give up gardening a few years ago, because I hated the idea of needing a walker to haul myself up by, since most of my gardening was from a kneeling position…
(No, the walker is hiding out in the attic at the moment, embarrassed at being considered a garden tool)
I have also reached the point where floor exercises are fine as long as you don’t need to get up afterwards.
scratch those.
However, we have a house with two steep staircases, we have a woodpile that keeps us active all year ( cutting, splitting, stacking, burning) and three lawns that require mowing every three days as long as it doesn’t rain… the mailbox is a half mile from the house, and uphill all the way home.
basically my ‘exercise’ is what I do anyway to get from point A to point B and back again and as long as I don’t have to lie down for any of it, I’m cool with that.
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I think you are still really quite active and must have lived actively
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I think one of the secrets of aging well physically is working hard most of your life. Not just working out at the gym twice a week, or going for hikes in the mountains during October, but what you do all day every day. I’ve always said I was the son my dad never had, and that counted for everything.
But the things I did learn have served me well since then. One of the things I learned was that I am no longer a fan of blueberry picking. =)
The other thing was, when we were cutting brush in the fields, I would stop every half hour or so, and look at how much more I had to do, and I’d sigh and go back to work. I guess my dad got tired of that, so one day he said, ‘try it this way. when you take a break, don’t look to see how far you have to go, look back and see how far you’ve come.” Damn all if that didn’t work.
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The best “exercise” for weight management usually tends to be reducing the number of times a fork or spoon moves towards one’s mouth. 😁
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This is true. But I seem to explode easily when I am inactive
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My primary source of exercise used to be walking my dog. It was something we both enjoyed, plus it was good for both of us. However, 7-8 years ago she suffered a spinal injury and is now crippled. She still LOVES to go for walks, but they tend to be VERY short in nature as she tires super fast. (But at my age, so do I.)
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So you two ate at a good place for one another.
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My favorite exercise is eating…walking from the parking lot inside, lifting the knife and fork and walking back to the car and any additional walking if you do any shopping.
But seriously I do do yard work…trimming and hauling to the front street for pickup.
But mental exercise I do tons of. always thinking…
So far, so good…I’m healthy, not overweight, sleep well, no diabetes, don’t smoke, drink usually just a glass of wine a day, slight heart irregularity treated with a beta blocker and very few aches and pains…and I’m 76. It’s in the genes mostly.
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Training with medieval weapons. It used to be dancing, but since my sister in law as my regular partner died, so did my dancing. Unfortunetly my wife has always thought of herself as too much a tough guy to dance. I try to cut my jumping to conclusions, though it is addictive it is bad for the knees. I love sailing with our viking age ship reproduction, and before you ask if sailing is much of an exercise add rowing the thing in to the equasion and you’l get exercise all right. I have always enjoyed walking, cyckling, jogging and crosscountry skiing (prefebraly with proper military skiis making my own tracks through forests and over the fields, icy lakes and the sea). Though less and less by the years as the joints get stiffer and stiffer. Do you count forging as an “exercise”?
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you are quite active good mate. you don’t need any exercises as it is.
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Yes, well, exercising just for the sake of exercises, healthy though they may be, has always seemed like a bit of a waste of time to me. I mean, if you can spend the time, why not go out and enjoy the nature, instead of going to a swetty gym to march on a treadmill, or why lift weights, when you can spend the time creating something with your hands, like forging knives or swords? Of course the muscles one gets from forging are not as pretty, but the arms will propably become even stronger.
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Driving to the gym to walk on the treadmill does seem to me a waste of time and fuel. I would try lifting weights if they could make the gym interesting. Lifting blocks on construction sites is not easy work which I would rather is done by robots. Being in nature is almost magical.
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