RE: What do you do?
July 14, 2015 at 6:46 pm
(This post was last modified: July 14, 2015 at 6:46 pm by Whateverist.)
(July 14, 2015 at 1:56 pm)Jenny A Wrote: I walk. I have a treadmill desk which I am usually using whenever I'm online at home. I am walking as I type, though I'm not walking very fast.
I take the dog for a walk in the woods every morning. I take a walk with my husband in the evenings. We are at the top of a fairly steep hill so all walks require gaining and losing altitude in a big way.
We are still moving, so I also carry many boxes up and down stairs. Gardening fills out my exercise plan.
I pretty much have what you're having, minus the treadmill. I walk the dog every day, every other day with the wife. When it is just me and the dog I do longer walks with more elevation change. When we go out together, I just go out and return to her as she doesn't like being out of sight for long. She always wears her headphones on walks so conversation is restricted to the car ride on the way to and from the walk. The East Bay Regional parks all allow dogs off leash. Sometimes, at the end of the day, I'll just grab the dog and head to the dog park on the bay and give Heidi Rose a good workout. She will leap out over waves; swim, run and leap after the ball; and I also send her up into trees for her agility. She needs so much more work than either of us can give her.
I do some gardening and remodeling work around the house too. I think the physical activity is good, as is the opportunity to make and act on creative decisions. But I don't think it is aerobic at all. Up until I just retired I would be on my feet all day teaching. That won't be hard to give up.