6d ago
Sixty years old and standing outside a gym last week like I was waiting to be told off. I didn't go in. Just stood there, looked at all the lycra and the confident striding about, and came home and had a cup of tea. Which is honestly peak me. The thing is I genuinely want to do some strength work. I've read enough on here and elsewhere to know it matters at this stage. But every time I picture actually doing it I imagine being the slowest, wobbliest person in the room while someone half my age watches me struggle with a weight that's probably decorative. So I've been doing mobility stuff at home before bed instead. Just floor work, gentle, following along with a YouTube woman who doesn't shout at me. It's not nothing. My hips have been so stiff in the mornings and this actually helps a bit. Small mercies. I've also started having a bit of protein after I move, even if the movement was only twenty minutes of pottering. Read somewhere it matters for muscle and I figure it costs me nothing to try. What I haven't done is ask my GP about any of it. The fatigue is genuinely limiting me and I don't know what's reasonable to push through versus what I should mention. She's decent but appointments are ten minutes and I always come out having forgotten half of what I wanted to say. Does anyone write a list beforehand? Does it actually help or do they still just nod and move on? x