Mr Motivator still going! Older people's fitness vital for mobility.

I wouldn't mind being younger, or at least having a less painful body, if I could keep my mind, as so oftn seems to happen, my body's falling to bits and my minds getting better

Lonehare12 said:

therefore the load on NHS too.

Indeed, a heavy load .

You’ve just listed my staple diet, I would be destitute.

Too funny  

I wouldn't want to be younger. Not now!

I was going to mention the film Cocoon, but I didn’t want a slap.

Oh yes, I remember him. He made each short routine interesting and certainly, he lived up to his name. I could do with him as my personal trainer at home. Exercising can be so boring but I have been religiously doing my strengthening routines since last summer and it does help.

Good for you doing an exercise class. Definitely, the NHS should fund exercise classes as its literature already promotes such things. Maybe Andy Burnham will consider this in his big plan. Think of the money that could be saved through fewer people falling and needing health and social care. 

Recently, I invested in some new gym equipment which (in theory) will allow me to spend less time exercising for more value. I’m doing core strength exercises with weights to try to build muscle and strengthen my core. I’m determined to keep this going forever as I’m worried about becoming unable to do things. 

I've never heard of "yoga in the park", they certainly don't do it here, I will keep looking for a good yoga teacher, not being very good at groups puts me off even trying a lot of things and places. I'd try tai-chi again, but I don't think my knees would take it. Hopefully a skiing machine will appear somewhere nearby.

I was disapointed with thr pain clinic though, they seem to do even less now than they did before, and I certainly got a hostile brush off becuse I'd been to them before with back pain and they'd been unable to help, the attitude was very, 'what do you want now?'

TheCatWoman said:

Exercise is being promoted as the answer to everything

Well, not quite everything - but definitely for ageing. My friend Sylvia [RIP] took up yoga at 60 and said she wished she done it earlier. She died age 92, fit in body but sadly after a short illness. Pity they don't do the free 'yoga in the park' summer sessions - they do them near here.

Fibonacci Squid said:

it's incredible how much difference it's made to my general health and day to day life to get a little bit better at them

Yes I find it very motivating - I get back and start my chores, even if I felt grumpy getting up early [early for me is before 12pm!].  I've already said I'll go to the paid sessions when this free NHS-funded course finishes in 5 months.

Cinnabar_wing said:

I wonder what a neurodivergent fitness class would look like?

Ours is quiet, apart from the instructor and our creaking joints and huffing & puffing. 

I wish! More like a scene from The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. 

Perhaps Andy Burnham should tax us by poundage . Now that would motivate me to stop eating my favourites - cake, bread, ice cream and biscuits.

Exercise is being promoted as the answer to everything and I agree it's extremely important as we age it's definately use it or lose it. I walk daily as its one of the few exercises I can safely do, if I go to a gym, something recomended to me by the pain clinic, I'm only allowed to use the exercise bikes and treadmill and seeing as I'd have to come home and walk Fearn anyway it's a bit of a waste of time. I'd love to get another skiing machine, but they're not made anymore, you can get seperate machines for the arms and legs but nothing like the old Nordic Track ones, someone, somwhere decided those machines had to be replaced with the ones that have arms and peddles which with my dyspraxia dosen't really work for me.

I'd love to find a remedial yoga class, but there dosen't seem to be any round here, swimmings not an option, not only can I not swim, but I'm allergic to the chemicals they put in pools, especially chlorine and the pool round here that dosen't use chemicals is a health spa/club where you have to pay to join and then pay for the things you want to do like swimming. 

I've used exercise to keep me out of a wheelchair sinse my teens, I've never had any help, most of the physios I've seen are useless, their idea of an exercise is a tenth of a yoga move that I can still do to it's full extension, which is part of the problem, I have some hypermobility in my joints and I have to be really careful not to accidently over stretch them

Cinnabar_wing said:

Although I would probably not sign up to anything as I'm rubbish at things like that

Then you are precisely the target audience!

I'm rubbish at a lot of things before I start doing them, and it can be amazing how even a few classes can get you up that initial very steep learning curve and make a real difference. I will never be amazing at any of them, but it's incredible how much difference it's made to my general health and day to day life to get a little bit better at them

I remember Mr Motivator

I agree prevention is better than cure. Maybe the weight loss jab and now the new tablet form is also a way of reducing health issues for people and therefore the load on NHS too.

I definitely remember Mr Rotavator along with The Green Goddess and Rolland Rat! It was the era of ‘Fame’ and leg warmers.

NHS prevention is often a lot cheaper than cure. I can imagine a scene from the film ‘Flashdance!  Seriously though well done, a whole room of people must be quite daunting.

I remember Mr Motivator from the 90's. My mum had a video of his and I think he was on morning TV too wasn't he? That's a lovely story from his work in care homes, preventative NHS classes sound a good idea, as it can be scary going to established classes as everyone else knows what they are doing! (Although I would probably not sign up to anything as I'm rubbish at things like that).

I wonder what a neurodivergent fitness class would look like? Music or not? I think I would still prefer with music so you can't hear the noise from everyone's bodies moving!