Good to read you again. Congrats on your exciting move. You know, weight / resistance training is more and more recommended, even over aerobic and especially for women. Strong muscles built and maintained in youth and midlife are supposed to protect against muscle wastage (sarcopenia) later on. All that lifting and hauling boxes and furniture = weight training without a gym subscription. Perhaps you pushed your body further than it really wanted to go, leading to soreness and stiffness, but once recovered from the DOMs you should be stronger. A stronger body plus all the gratifying progress in arranging your new place will be a great win-win. Good luck!
Yes, I really should do more deliberate strength training. Yoga is a piece of that for me, because most videos or classes will include at least some gentle body weight exercises, but I could branch out! Thanks so much for reading, as always.
Jessica, If you can find the way to prescribe for yourself more strengthening activity AND regularly take that medicine, please PLEASE write a lengthy blog explaining EXACTLY how you did it. Then go on to expand that essay into a best-selling book. After 82 years in this world and writing myself thousands if not millions of prescriptions, resolutions and to do lists, I'm not there yet. Nowhere near. Good luck!
Good to read you again. Congrats on your exciting move. You know, weight / resistance training is more and more recommended, even over aerobic and especially for women. Strong muscles built and maintained in youth and midlife are supposed to protect against muscle wastage (sarcopenia) later on. All that lifting and hauling boxes and furniture = weight training without a gym subscription. Perhaps you pushed your body further than it really wanted to go, leading to soreness and stiffness, but once recovered from the DOMs you should be stronger. A stronger body plus all the gratifying progress in arranging your new place will be a great win-win. Good luck!
Yes, I really should do more deliberate strength training. Yoga is a piece of that for me, because most videos or classes will include at least some gentle body weight exercises, but I could branch out! Thanks so much for reading, as always.
I didn't say, do more, but rather, you already did!
Oh yes, I know you didn't! But as someone who aspires to get stronger, or at least maintain her current level of strength, I prescribed it myself!
Jessica, If you can find the way to prescribe for yourself more strengthening activity AND regularly take that medicine, please PLEASE write a lengthy blog explaining EXACTLY how you did it. Then go on to expand that essay into a best-selling book. After 82 years in this world and writing myself thousands if not millions of prescriptions, resolutions and to do lists, I'm not there yet. Nowhere near. Good luck!