We just got back from the beach - school holidays up here - thank you!!!!
Karen-C - I am speechless and humbled. You show us how it's done - thank you so much for taking the time to post.
Thank you for so eloquently pointing out that if exercise matters women should have support - both financial and in terms of classses in achieving their goals. We have no trouble (well almost no trouble...the meandering a of PBS approvals and PBAC committees are for another time) writing out thousands of dollars in cancer drugs but only a few women are actively taught ( with more than a multi page pamphlet) as part of their recovery plan what to do about exercise in a broad all inclusive programme.
When supported women do better and are more likely to stick with it.
As for me, I am 50 and of average weight. I know my BMI, recently I took the active step of calculating not only my BMI and but my fat something ( it came as a percentage ... and it involved waist, hip, arm measurements). I also looked up what my heart rate should be for moderate intensity exercise and my jaw dropped. Yes there is a formula for that as well. I have joined a gym twice in the last twenty years and I went twice. I walk - at night, on a threadmill and watch Prowalks on YouTube ( Paris, Pompei etc ) a girl can dream. I can run a little. I swim. I play table tennis. I would like to do more yoga - or some yoga to be honest.
Afrazer please jump in one this, but apparently it is as good as resistance training for maintaining bone density. That is my short term goal - two yoga sessions a week. I keep a pair of weights in the kitchen (
