Right. Tamsin. 60. Finally posting. I joined a gym in January and I want you to know I have never felt more out of place in my life. Everyone else seems to know what they're doing with the cables and the bars and I'm just sort of hovering near the dumbbell rack trying to look like I belong there. The instructor was lovely but she's about 24 and I kept nodding like I understood things I absolutely did not understand. But here's why I'm doing it. I had a conversation with my GP a few months back about bone health, nothing alarming, just routine stuff after being on HRT for years, and she mentioned that resistance exercise genuinely matters for bone density as we get older. That landed differently than I expected. I went home and thought, well I walk, I've always walked, but that's apparently not quite the same thing. So now I'm attempting two sessions a week. Attempting is the right word. My knees are a bit unhappy about the whole project and I've started keeping a rough note of which movements bother them so I can actually describe it properly at my next appointment rather than just saying "my knees hurt sometimes". I've also been thinking more about protein because someone mentioned it in a thread here a while back and I looked into it and I'd honestly been quite neglectful on that front. More eggs, more Greek yogurt, that sort of thing. I feel slightly ridiculous at the gym. But I also feel like I'm doing something. Those two things can both be true I think. x