Comments on: Secret to Active 80s? Fitness-Heavy 40s http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2012/08/27/secret-to-active-80s-fitness-heavy-40s/ The latest Health news and blog posts from ABC News contributors and bloggers. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:11:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: The_Mick http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2012/08/27/secret-to-active-80s-fitness-heavy-40s/#comment-1745550 The_Mick Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:56:16 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/?p=119745#comment-1745550 As a scientist, a high school sports coach who ran intervals, hills, and long miles with track/crosscountry teenagers into my 50's, and someone who gained a lot of weight in the next decade while my legs recovered and I led a sedentary lifestyle, I think it's foolish to assume your 40's alone will make you fine in your 80's without being active in between. I'm now 62 and a year ago I woke up and saw that I better get my stuff together if I'm going to be active as the decades pass. I began bicycling 25 miles/wk lost 30 lbs, reduced my rest pulse from 85 to 68, and reduced my A1c blood sugar from a medicated-but-uncontrolled 8.4 to 6.2 so far. But I've still got a long way to go - it's hard to overcome a decade of neglect, but I'll get there. My goal this decade (in my 60's) is to climb Mt, Kilimanjaro. As a scientist, a high school sports coach who ran intervals, hills, and long miles with track/crosscountry teenagers into my 50′s, and someone who gained a lot of weight in the next decade while my legs recovered and I led a sedentary lifestyle, I think it’s foolish to assume your 40′s alone will make you fine in your 80′s without being active in between. I’m now 62 and a year ago I woke up and saw that I better get my stuff together if I’m going to be active as the decades pass. I began bicycling 25 miles/wk lost 30 lbs, reduced my rest pulse from 85 to 68, and reduced my A1c blood sugar from a medicated-but-uncontrolled 8.4 to 6.2 so far. But I’ve still got a long way to go – it’s hard to overcome a decade of neglect, but I’ll get there. My goal this decade (in my 60′s) is to climb Mt, Kilimanjaro.

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