My Journey With Health And Fitness – Best Day Ever

It was a beautiful day for a walk at the beach today. There were tons of people and dogs walking the promenade. There was a man walking in front of me with one of those dog strollers. I try not to be judgmental but I really don’t like it when able bodied dogs are being wheeled around as walking is so much better for their health. However when I caught up with the man I realized it was a cat in that stroller. Apparently the cat loves going for walks in his stroller and if he sees the stroller open he just leaps into it. To me, that is a great use for a pet stroller.

Yesterday I started my day as usual doing a class at my fitness centre. We were doing an exercise called a farmer’s hold where you just stand there holding heavy weights. I had pulled out a pair of 15 lb dumbells and was ready to go. That’s when another member brought over a pair of 35 lb weights and told me if she was doing 40 lb weights I could do 35 lb. Much to my surprise I got through 3 sets of that exercise. Then we were doing side bends (holding 1 weight and bending sideways) and the instructor said to use heavy weights but they didn’t have to be as heavy as the farmer’s hold weights. Wrong, shouted the other member, Gwenne use the 35’s and so I did. Apparently it didn’t kill me.

But then I was on to meet this week’s goal, walking more than 50,000 steps. This was a big goal because that is a lot of walking. Of course I do it in segments of at least 90 minutes at a time. And yes, this took up most of my day but I got it done. At the end of my walking I was at 53,000 steps, 35.5 km and had burned 3,100 calories. I actually got my cowboy boot badge from my fitbit app which you receive when you walk 50,000 in a single day.

I acknowledge this is the best day that I have ever put in exercise wise. I also admit that today my body is reminding me that I am 58 years old and yesterday was a lot of work. The problem I have at this point is that was such a big goal to meet, what can I do next?