KP2009APL18 100 WORKOUTS!
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TODAY WAS MY 100TH STRAIGHT
DAILY 20 MINUTE WORKOUT ON
MY TRAMPOLINE WITH WEIGHTS.
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I’M COMING BACK AGAIN PHYSICALLY.
This is the third or fourth time
I’ve really been into it in the
last 5 years or so. I stopped
several times because my joints
were causing me so much pain:
first shoulders, then knees.
Then my knees swelled up and
didn’t bend any more. Ouch!
When you’re crippled at 55+ …
you gotta wonder if you’re done.
After years of talking to
doctors about my pain, I
finally found a good one,
who told me what even the
pioneers knew: Eat Gelatine.
[As in Knox Nutra-Joint+ or
even plain old buffet jello.]
I was pain-free in a week or two!
Eventually, I went back
to working out again!
Interrupted by this or that pain that
came and went for no reason that I saw,
and them moved in and put his name on
the mailbox. I guess he lives here now!
When you’re crippled AGAIN at 61,
you gotta think, that was the
double … this is the whammy.
I tried the gelatin again,
but it didn’t work this time.
Whammy seemed about right,
but make that a triple, with
a side order of unemployed
and flat broke too. Don’t let
the door hit you on the way out!
I kept trying to understand.
Throughout this period I was
always drinking some urine
everyday, so that wasn’t a
factor, and did not protect
me from these problems.
The key was an article on
acid/alkaline balance in diet.
I saw everything I was eating
was acid-forming. The alkaline
side was completely missing from
my diet. Alkaline foods seem to
be mostly fresh moist tasty things
that rot easily you would find in a
salad. So I started eating a huge
raw fresh salad with olive oil daily.
That seems to have happened on
2008DEC15, when I had missed
199 straight workouts on my
trampoline, and had been taking
4 tylenol a day for many months.
In early December 2008, I was in
extreme pain and upped my tylenol
to 6 a day, barely walking even
with two sticks to support me.
Bending my legs enough to drive
was an agony. My right knee was so
sore I had to brake with my left
foot. Even pressing the gas hurt.
The whole knee was swollen + painful.
I couldn’t even think of kneeling on
it! And this was on 6 tylenol a day!
No wonder those old people don’t mind
dying so much! This really sucks big!
ON DEC21 I WALKED WITHOUT STICKS!
Then I REALLY laid on the SALADS!
ON DEC25 I SKIPPED MY TYLENOL!
ON DEC28 I WENT OFF TYLENOL, FOR GOOD!
ON 2009JAN09 I STARTED WORKING OUT!
Less than a month after enhancing
my diet with lots of big raw salads.
It was only 10 minutes on the
trampoline without any weights!
But I was moving again without
any tylenol, after 223 days
of sitting around in pain!
GOD BLESS SALADS!
At that time, both of my
lower legs and ankles were
swollen, and got worse as the
day wore on. I was a real mess!
I bounced for the first 27 days
without any weights at all. On
day 28 I added less than a pound
to each hand. By workout 58 I
was up to five pounds per hand.
I’m happy with keeping it there.
I’ve gone up to 7 pounds in each
hand before, and my musles loved
it, but my joints soon gave up.
Now, on day 100, I’m about 228#.
When I stopped bouncing on 2008MAY21,
I had been bouncing for 85 days
straight, and weighed about 222#.
But before that continuous run
I had spent much of 2007 bouncing,
a few days on or off at a time,
probably about 50% on, so I had
a really good fitness foundation
before that 85 day run started.
I’d really like to get down
around 200#, but it’s MUCH
more important to me that
I’m working out everyday!
My pulse varies widely.
Sometimes when I wake up
it’s 100. But often it’s
in the 60′s, or high 50′s.
It’s commonly in the 50′s
when I’m at the computer.
Sometimes at the end of
a workout, it’s 125 or
135. I’ve seen it as
high as 168, for no
apparent reason. But
sometimes it’s in
the low 80′s too!
Working out has seriously
lowered my pulse rate.
I still have the blood
pressure of TWO healthy,
fit active men!
But even that is wildly
erratic. Sometimes it
goes LOW on exercising!
Looking back, I see that
I never had weird joint
problems during the years
I could eat at the salad
bar two or three times a
week! My real problems
came when I couldn’t afford
$10 for the salad bar, or
even a gallon of gas to go
get free government food.
I had “plenty” to eat, but it
wasn’t nearly a healthy diet!
Neither fasting nor drinking
urine can remedy a general
dietary deficiency. If you
want good garbage out, you
gotta put good garbage in!
So now my fantasy of
working out every day
well into my 90′s
seems real again.
Anyway, I loved it today!
My legs aren’t cut like
they were before I was
laid off, but they are
coming back pretty fast!
I rarely even think
about swollen ankles,
but my knees are still
sore to painful, hurt
bad intermittently,
and look like sacks
of marbles. So what?
I’m walking without sticks.
I’m working out every day!
I’m working as a lawn man,
and eating at the salad bar
almost every other day.
If it gets any better than
that … I’m ready now!
Sure, it’s just another
temporary reprieve before
the inevitable happens.
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NO MATTER HOW BAD IT
IS; IT’S NOT HOPELESS
UNTIL YOU STOP HOPING
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If you’re going down,
you might as well go
down hoping! It’s
more fun that way!
Contrary to public
belief, it’s very
definitely NOT over,
until the fat lady
*STOPS* singing!
Better get
another beer!
She’s just
practicing now,
for her big
performance
much later
on in the
… season.
O
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