Playing sport as you get older

stonerblue said:
I don't really know because I don't count but dog gets about 2 miles walk first thing in morning. If I'm at work I'm constantly walking back and forth from 9am. Then another walk with mutt after work. How many steps in a mile?
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I walk mile in morning to tram stop on way to work and it's roughly 2,000 for me
 
stonerblue said:
I don't really know because I don't count but dog gets about 2 miles walk first thing in morning. If I'm at work I'm constantly walking back and forth from 9am. Then another walk with mutt after work. How many steps in a mile?
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The Health app on my iPhone tells me everything I need to know!
 
flook said:
59 and started walking about 3 years ago, and after retiring last year went back to archery, which I've done for a couple of periods before work/family meant I couldn't dedicate the time needed.

I had dodgy knees from 5 aside injuries in my twenties, and walking caused a problem until I built up the muscles around them, they're better now than they have been in years. Archery I went to fast too soon and have something akin to tennis elbow. Slowly building back up again with the help of an elbow brace, still can't draw the bow weight I did in my forties but getting there.

Not sure what I'd do without some form of sport, probably just curl up and expire
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How did you get around for the first 56 years?
 
pride in battle said:
Try playing 8 a side against 25 year olds when you're 60 :)
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I avoid that scenario like the plague.
No sense being embarrassed when your trying to keep fit.
I remember trying to show a younger player whose boss, ..closed him down on the ball, he pushed it ahead of him,down the wing to my mind that was a loose ball,he started accelerating away, I turned on the afterburners......and tweaked me hamstring in full flight...out for 4 weeks .
Never again.
 
stonerblue said:
I don't really know because I don't count but dog gets about 2 miles walk first thing in morning. If I'm at work I'm constantly walking back and forth from 9am. Then another walk with mutt after work. How many steps in a mile?
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Get the " google fit " app for your mobile,get it off play store,its free,I have it on android.
 
jrb said:
I was pretty devastated when I stopped playing Sunday league football.

I'd love nothing more than putting on a pair of football boots again and playing a 90 minute game of football on a grass pitch.

When you are young, fit, fast, and up for for a game of Sunday league football, even after a Saturday night out on the beer, you just take it for granted.

I'd love to turn back the clock and smash the ball into the onion bag again. :-)
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When I was in the RAF up to the age of 30 played 3 games a week and trained nearly every night, fucking loved it, left and played Sat, Sundays for two years then got a back injury and had to stop immediately and out my job first, if you had told my ex wife I never played football again after 32 she wouldn’t believe you I was that obsessed. Now walking the dog is the most I do due to that back injury, im starting to swim now as well but bloody hell it’s hard on the upper body which I’ve done nothing with for years. I really need to stretch as well.
 
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