I was talking with a buddy of mine the other day and we were bemoaning getting older. He said he doesn't work out and I thought that was crazy. If you're over 40 years old and you're not doing something to keep in shape, you're basically asking for a heart attack or stroke or something.
In December of 2011, I started running. I don't particularly like it, but I run the trails so it's a little more entertaining to me than running on the road. I had gotten up to my long runs being 7-9 miles but always running at least 4 miles every time out. But back in February, I was down on a snow covered trail, slipped on a root or something underneath the snow and twisted my knee something awful. I took about a month off and then tried to run again and had shooting pain through my leg. So I had to stop running. Since then, I've just been working out with weights in my garage. I have 3 sets of dumbbells - 25 lbs, 40, lbs and 50 lbs. I can do a lot of different exercises with those and I'm as strong as I've ever been probably but my belly and love handles are back because I'm just not doing any cardio work. I'm going to let the hot summer pass and my knee heal up until September or so and then I'm hoping to get back to running.
So the purpose of this thread is just to get y'all's thoughts on working out and maybe pick up an idea or two for what I can be doing over the summer in addition to lifting.
Whaddaya got?
In December of 2011, I started running. I don't particularly like it, but I run the trails so it's a little more entertaining to me than running on the road. I had gotten up to my long runs being 7-9 miles but always running at least 4 miles every time out. But back in February, I was down on a snow covered trail, slipped on a root or something underneath the snow and twisted my knee something awful. I took about a month off and then tried to run again and had shooting pain through my leg. So I had to stop running. Since then, I've just been working out with weights in my garage. I have 3 sets of dumbbells - 25 lbs, 40, lbs and 50 lbs. I can do a lot of different exercises with those and I'm as strong as I've ever been probably but my belly and love handles are back because I'm just not doing any cardio work. I'm going to let the hot summer pass and my knee heal up until September or so and then I'm hoping to get back to running.
So the purpose of this thread is just to get y'all's thoughts on working out and maybe pick up an idea or two for what I can be doing over the summer in addition to lifting.
Whaddaya got?