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Stronger at 50 - what works for you

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Flipflapfloppy · 25/07/2025 05:16

I've decided today is the day I start to sort myself out.

I'm overweight but pretty fit - in that i cycle (30/40 mins fitness cycle) and walk most days and like to hike. I like being outside and can't stick to the gym as i find it boring and don't go. I'm getting increasingly stiff and inflexible though and i badly need to do something more than aerobic which I enjoy. Most importantly I need to get new habits that stick.

I know I need to start strength training and doing some flexibility work- but I feel i need a plan to get me started.

Has anyone done this - started from scratch with new exercise in their 50s - and if so what has worked that i could realistically copy. Ideally I don't want to go to the gym and happy to do stuff at home.

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Billybagpuss · 25/07/2025 05:27

55 here, I’ve been a gym member for years but mostly for the pool as the whole restricted hours and pre booking Covid hangover annoyed me. Also overweight, wouldn’t describe myself as fit but I try to keep active.

I’ve recently started doing yoga, never done it before, I can really feel the difference with my body, I’m much more flexible. I’m forcing myself to do weights or a resistance class at least twice a week, I don’t particularly enjoy them, but I see it as a job in ‘operation don’t end up like my mum’ who has zero mobility and is housebound.

what worked for me in the getting it to stick a bit more was finally getting dh to join too, we gym together, and the excellent surprise of bumping into a friend who I haven’t seen for years so she drags me along to classes. I think I need the accountability of someone to go with. I do try at home, we have a treadmill and a small collection of very low weights, and they do get used but not regularly enough.

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