Feeling younger than I’ve felt for years

Well done Primrose53 both for looking after your Mum and for doing something to make you feel better. I love aqua aerobics or aquafit, too especially in the warm pool, but even the colder pool is good.

Well done Primrose - I have a bad right knee and that’s my excuse for not exercising. I’m becoming lazy. I am older than you but thats no excuse. I’m not motivated enough. Godd luck with your newfound enthusiasm 👍

Good for you Primrose. Staying active has such a great impact on our health, mentally and physically!

I do a weight workout at home 3 x weekly, and yoga 3 days, with Sundays to lounge about. I fractured my elbow late August, so couldn't do either, and I did notice the difference in flexibility and strength. I'm working my way back up now, but with lighter weights.

Primrose You are an inspiration you really are.

You more than deserve a new lease of life.
I take my hat off to you, and I don't even wear one.

Congratulations! You must feel really good in yourself too.

What a great read...I needed to read that this morning. Good to share it. It's so easy to get ground down and not so easy to bounce back. Very encouraging.

Well done you.

It is on my "to do" list to get fitter.
I havent known where to start[when I do].
I did decide swimming is likely the route to go. Never thought of aqua aerobics.

How good a swimmer is it necessary to be?

That sounds beneficial Primrose53. Exercise in water is good because you weight is supported.

Brilliant! Well done and congratulations. Hope you continue to feel the benefits for many years to come 😁

Good for you for getting back to exercising. It's "your time" now. I don't think most people would even realise they might be spending part of their retirement being a carer - so it's been a difficult few years for you having that to deal with (probably totally unexpectedly).

So - yep....enjoy yourself now that you can "retire" properly so to say.

This is lovely to hear. How wonderful that you were able to care for your mum in her last days. I’m glad you’ve got your mojo back. I’m 67 and have been feeling a bit like you after surgery.
Exercise is key and getting out there and being with people.

Aqua aerobics is great. It's so invigorating and also social with coffee and chatting after the session. I certainly feel the benefit. Can't say I feel exactly young though!

What a nice post ❤️ I think it is quite easy for carers to become inactive as their care roles become more isolating. It’s great you’ve found time to look after yourself and find hobbies that have such positive health benefits

CariadAgain

Good for you for getting back to exercising. It's "your time" now. I don't think most people would even realise they might be spending part of their retirement being a carer - so it's been a difficult few years for you having that to deal with (probably totally unexpectedly).

So - yep....enjoy yourself now that you can "retire" properly so to say.

Many may not.

I certainly do, as 3 grandparents, now great grandparents, are still with us.
Part, or main part of the reason I have been decluttering.
I can see what could be coming.

I go to seated exercise classes using resistance bands. I have worked my way up the different band colours and am one step from the highest one.
It's a social group as well with a break for a cuppa afterwards and a quiz or arts and crafts or a talk from someone. We all love it and the age group is from the 60's upwards. I wouldn't miss those classes for anything .....apart from a gp, hospital or dental appointment.
Well done you for doing something for yourself.😊👏👏

Thank you for all those lovely comments.

fancythat you don’t need to be able to swim. You stand in the water approx up to your chest and exercise to music.
When I was young I was a good swimmer but I get so bored just doing lengths so this suits me better.

There are some ladies there in their 80s going down to maybe 40s. They are all very friendly and supportive to this newby who forgets an item every time! Sometimes my hairbrush or talc or drinking water. Fortunately I haven’t forgotten my swimsuit ……. Yet! 🤣

Fancythat I don't think it's necessary to be a swimmer to do acqua aerobics. I knew someone who did this every morning at her retirement village swimming pool. She used to stand in the water to exercise. Hope this is useful to you.

fancythat

CariadAgain

Good for you for getting back to exercising. It's "your time" now. I don't think most people would even realise they might be spending part of their retirement being a carer - so it's been a difficult few years for you having that to deal with (probably totally unexpectedly).

So - yep....enjoy yourself now that you can "retire" properly so to say.

Many may not.

I certainly do, as 3 grandparents, now great grandparents, are still with us.
Part, or main part of the reason I have been decluttering.
I can see what could be coming.

Crikey! That's a high risk of being a carer indeed! Families are going to vary indeed on that one. I'm from a (very heavy indeed) heart attack family on both sides - and that was before "modern medicine" and its very mixed blessings.

So I was very young (toddler age) when the grandparents both sides died. So young I don't remember any of them. But then the people my mother told me were her parents turned out to be really her grandparents and her "father" therefore died when she was very young herself and her "mother" died when I was just a few years old (I finally had that one pointed out to me by someone as to why my mothers "elder sister" was 17 years older than her.....when I expressed my astonishment to them about there being such a big age gap between them, rather than the couple of years gap I would have expected. They looked at the family photo and told me what they'd just "seen" in it - ie I'd not been told it how it really was).

My fathers parents really were his parents and they died when I was very young too.

I do have both admiration - and sympathy - for people who end up becoming carers. It's not a situation I've ever been in - as my father had told me many years beforehand my mother would want me to be a carer for her in later life, ie whilst she was still quite young and healthy and he instructed me not to do so - as he said she'd "drive you mad if you try to". So my mothers favourite child (ie my brother) and his wife took on a carer role there when it came to it (as they lived nearer to her than I did by then) and they were on a much more similar mental level to each other than I am to my mother.

So it was the man in the family - and not the woman - in the event that did caring duties when it came to it. It was much more appropriate for her favourite child/same mental level/married and therefore a spouse to help as well person to be the carer person.

But I certainly have had female friends that were put in that position and have a male friend now that is in that position and his parents have their own house still - but he "tears his hair out" at intervals on what it's like dealing with this.

My admiration to you that it looks like you are planning to go as far as taking them into your own home as well....

Well done Primrose.. you have certainly earned this new burst of life.. enjoy...

I am full of admiration for you and wish I had tackled my lack of energy sooner but am encouraged to try to do more physical activity - use it or lose it, I guess.

Putting me to shame….

CanadianGran

Good for you Primrose. Staying active has such a great impact on our health, mentally and physically!

I do a weight workout at home 3 x weekly, and yoga 3 days, with Sundays to lounge about. I fractured my elbow late August, so couldn't do either, and I did notice the difference in flexibility and strength. I'm working my way back up now, but with lighter weights.

Can you recommend a weight workout from home please? We were going to the gym but as we travel so much we need to follow a home workout really and haven’t found one yet.

Good for you Primrose

Your time is now