Got A Fitness Regime?

We just made a pitstop at the York Barbell Museum / Outlet to pick up more lifting doodads. 😀

Hey, when you have an ego as big as Bob Hoffman's, a museum is essential. It was kind of fun though.

And, I finally picked up some 5lb technique plates so my 5 year-old can lift a little with me.

Indeed there is:

https://www.fartmuseum.com/

I am getting dangerously close to being too old to hit lifetime PRs again, but dammit I just squated 400 for reps at almost 40 years old.

If I can just hold it together for another 3 years, I can start going after some 'masters' state records!



Anyone else actively competing in a sport of some sort?

I guess anything taken to extremes can be a competitive sport.

That sounds fun! We have quite a few disk golf courses in our city. Like many things in life, I totally underestimated how hard it was and how complicated it gets - went to try it out with a friend who competes and he showed up with a whole backpack full of different frisbees that were good for different situations and throwing styles. Seems like a great way to get a lot of walking and fresh air.

A lifetime of shooting sports for me, mostly High Power Rifle competition, some Precision Pistol (the old fashioned Bulls Eye Pistol), Small Bore Rifle in the distant past.



Prone slow-fire during a match. Much younger I am in this photo because there's still some black hair evident. Ummmm... no shooting glasses! That's really a no-no. I probably discarded them because it was likely over 100F that afternoon and they were blurred by sweat.


I'm getting old though. At 66, position rifle shooting contortions don't come as easily and muscles complain more after a match. My good competition rifles and handguns have become out of style on the firing line and have become valued "collectors' items," but I'm still willing to take them out for exercise because I still consider them to be superior. Vintage guns, vintage watches - I'm all over it!

Can't manage Precision Pistol at present due to a trashed right shoulder which hasn't remained fixed after surgery. Going to a doctor in two weeks to see about fixing it again.

I manage two miles in 30 minutes walking about the neighborhood and call it my cardio-walking.

In late 2017 I was at a High Power Rifle match, a special retro match for U. S. World War II rifles, mostly for the M1 Garand. Since I still to this day use the M1 as my primary match rifle I relished entering the match. The match director called for "three minute prep time for prone rapid-fire" so I got down on the shooting mat and rooted around laying out reloads, adjusting the rifle's sling, and dry-firing a few times. During this time I suddenly felt a sharp pain as if another competitor had fixed a bayonet on his M1 and thrust it through the middle of my back. This pain would not subside at all and I was in a lot of discomfort. Despite this, I continued with the match, shot the remainder of it and even managed a forth place finish.

Struggled the two and a half hour drive home and related all to my wife who suggested we go to the emergency room late that Sunday evening. The examination indicated that I did not have a heart attack, that my heart was strong, but that I had "rust in the pipes" as the physician put it.

Next thing I knew I was going in for bypass surgery, having much blockage and requiring four bypasses.

I had walked two miles in 30 minutes for years, three to five times a week up until surgery. I'm still doing it, now accomplishing four to six times per week. The walking route includes Craig street nearby which has a long grade to help conditioning.

If I may, I'd amend that to "the knurling on a vintage bare steel barbell."

I've got an old York split sleeve bar that I wouldn't mind being buried with. I've hit a lifetime of PRs on it.