How much physical activity do you manage?

PRINTMISS; I've had similar problems in one leg, pain which has been all over the leg but also going down into my heel [the heel bit tends to be worse first thing in the morning] and we seem to have pinned it down to nerve pain coming from my knee. Since I've been treaing it as a knee problem and not a disc problem I've felt much better [but it could be the better weather].

Annika, tried the cushion treament last night, and it certainly helped, crimson thanks for that too, I think I am just going to bite the bullet, and realise I can no longer dig the garden over, or move the heavy pots on my own. Keep bowling though, I am sure that does me no harm - that's what i keep telling myself anyway, because I enjoy it so much. The lovely weather is helping. Hope you all have a sunny day.

PRINTMISS; I know everyone kept telling me to see my doctor and I kept putting it off [thinking I'd wake up one day and I'd be ok] but please see a doctor. Until you find the source of the problem you can't prevent it. I was so convinced it was coming from my spine or my hip and was scared to do any lifting and such like [although, again, someone on here, apologies for not remembering who because everyone on here chips in with help and advice so much, said it could be a knee problem]. Thankfully I knew that one of my doctors was trained in acupuncture so would have a better than average knowledge of nerve passages.

This thread is an open invitation to those of us who do exercise and want to tell us about it and make the rest of us feel guilty!

I have now read about mountain walks in more threads than I can remember and although it is commendable it makes me feel like a lazy old so and so who can't be bothered to do as much exercise as I could healthwise.
Churchill said ' No Sports' and if you are happy and contented and don't like long walks or Yoga or Pilates then leave it!

I live in a narrow house with three floors, which I now clean myself since my cleaning lady gave up. There is enough exercise in house and garden work for any older person if it is done regularly and well.

Not really sure what you are getting at Charlotta.
I would hope that there was room on GN for people who want to talk about exercise and those that don't. And for those that want to talk about not exercising. An uneasy combination on one thread, I'll grant you.
If those that feel guilty about not exercising choose to read the ones about exercising then that is their choice - "no one can make you feel inferior without your permission" as E Roosveldt said. Likewise no one can "make someone feel guilty" and this is obviously not the intention of those who enjoy exercise or want a bit of support with it. Likewise why should anyone who wants to post about exercise feel guilty because not everyone on GN can do it?

Charlotta if you want to know how excercise we do , why don"t you log onto "How much physical excercise do you get "? perhaps you have not seen it ?

PRINTMISS I am glad it helped, hope it gets much better

charlotta Should we perhaps not talk about anything because - dreadful thought - there may be people who do not do it and resent us for discussing it?

I think if anyone else had objected to you mentioning something they did not find interesting you would have had a suitable anwer to them - something like "So don't read it"

Unless of course your comment was humorous. In that case maybe a smiley icon would have given us a clue.

Charlotta I have done 10–15 minutes work on the abs, about 1 hour cardiac workout in the gym and then swum 1 kilometre. I am currently feeling a bit out of tune with my body and a need to get it back to where I like it to be. What is your problem? What I do, what calories I lose, what stretches and crunches I put myself through is not your issue. What are you doing on this thread if you have no desire to talk about the level of physical activity you do? (That is the topic!)

I have spent a life time doing no exercises at all until I joined the GN diet thread. Like many other posters, I have chronic and painful conditions which limit mobility. It must be 20 years since I was able to kneel and I haven't been able to use a bath for a similar length of time. So just a bit more about the exercises I now do....
I discovered that our local authority offers a range of exercise programmes and facilities specifically for older people. So they should...there's a lot of us!
I do Over 50's Nordic Walking ....lasts about an hour, steady but not too strenuous. There's a 20/30 minute even more gentle class for those who need it. Over 50's Tai Chi...I'm addicted! The Sensai who leads the class incorporates exercises to improve balance and help arthritis/carpel tunnel etc. In 6 months I've noticed a big improvement in pain management.
So it doesn't have to be all sprayed on leotards and feeling the burn! Local GP surgeries, Age Concern & local council websites will have information about similar schemes in other parts of the country.
Yesterday I did my first mainly chair-based aerobics class. Not so much gym bunnies....more like hot, cross bunnies! But it was good fun and the music was great!

I had an interesting experience this week at Pilates. I've been having trouble with my knee for a while - aching mainly - and my instructor knows this. On this occasion I had to do a particular stretch - well a bit of a contortion in my eyes - and my knee hurt. When I told my instructor he asked me to show him and then he put his fingers right on the place and pressed! It made me yelp, but it's been so much better ever since. He's a physio so I'm really lucky and I've been able to walk without twinges too. I hope it lasts. Apparently it wasn't my knee but where the calf muscle is attached to just alongside the knee - or something like that. Three cheers for Pilates!

Oh, dear, mea culpa! I had no idea that my innocent pleasure in my mountain walks would cause Charlotta so much angst. I won't mention it again.

Well actually greatnan I for one would hate you to stop mentioning your walks. I love to envisage you striding around in the Alps.

Yes, me too, greatnan. I'd come with you if I could.Mind you, I think you like the solitude quite often, don't you? As I would. Do carry on telling us about them.

Wish I could do more physical activity than I do. My muscles want to do more than my bones. It's a pain, literally!

greatnan carry on telling us about your walks I love to hear where you have been.

Thank you, folks, you are very kind. I am just watching The Wright Stuff then I am off for a really tough climb before it gets too hot. I am flying to Manchester next week and won't be able to do any walking for three weeks, so I have to make the most of this week!

Greatnan I love hearing about your adventures and walks, so don't stop, please. I don't do much exercise other than gardening, housework and walking the dog, then my knee lets me down. The thought of being able to hike through the mountains is wonderful. Keep telling us all about it

Greatnan I often think about you and your mountain walks when I'm exercising on the treadmill – well, there's no countryside to look at to relieve the boredom. I always think you would have a good laugh if you saw my sweaty red face and expression of pride in the piddly numbers of kilometres walked and metres climbed.

I have cut the grass, weeded the borders, cleaned the windows, helped clear out the cellar, finished cleaning and preparing the cottage in the garden for visitors and now I am inside because it is 31 degrees.
Hot not angry!

I have got enough exercise just imagining all this! - that'll do for me!

mamie - and bonkers! . It's hotter down here - the reading outside the kitchen door which faces west and gets the sun hitting it just about now, reads 35 degrees, and the most exercise I have done today is to put the shutters " à point"!

Well I did manage an hour in the hammock, under the trees with a book, this afternoon, just to prove I sometimes "live the dream"! We are off on Sunday to the UK to take the GDs to the seaside for a week and are doing a house swap, so we have been getting everything sorted.
Storms due tonight, I think.

We did a house swap last year - worked really well. Have a great trip!
Yep, storms predicted here too, and after this heat, it'll be lively no doubt.
I've been thinking of getting a hammock - it would be perfect between our two walnut trees.

absent - I wouldn't dream of laughing at your endeavours!
It is very hot here today but I walked for the first hour beside a tumbling river in the shade of very tall pines, on a carpet of fallen leaves. After that, the path climbed very steeply towards a col (mountain pass) - it was very rocky with a lot of loose scree, which is about the hardest stuff to walk on as it is like walking on ball bearings. Luckily, I had my poles and dug them in as hard as I could. I was a bit tired when I got to the top - probably not many miles along the ground, but the rise in altitude was from 900 metres to over 1200 metres, say around 1,000 feet. At the ridge, I was at an altitude of nearly 4,000 feet, but I am now used to it and I don't have any breathing difficulties. I had a ten minute rest and drank half my bottle of water, then took a different route down.
When I got home, my bp was only 96/58 for a time, which is too low. It is now creeping up - 107/58 and it will be back to a normal reading by this evening. I think I will start taking a picnic instead of just water and having a longer rest at the top - otherwise my 'mum' (Granjura) will tell me off!