Change It Up. Don't Get Stuck In A Routine.

By Ray Glier

For 10 years, or so, my exercise would be four miles jogging on the treadmill, seven days a week, unless I was gone all day covering a game, which is what sportswriters do. We had children. We had jobs. It could not be a complicated regimen. I ran some baseball practices, but mostly it was that treadmill. 

I stayed at 168 pounds.

I was wrong. I could have changed it up.

Now that most of you readers of Geezer Jock™ are retired, or the kids are on their way, change it up. This is from the excellent book Younger Next Year:

Nature is not a treadmill at the gym. It's an ever changing physical environment. So it should come as no surprise that a variety of different exercises and intensities do more good than a single, unvarying routine.

We just suggest incorporating a lot of variety over the next (XX) years.

Nature's rule is simple, do something real every day. Ignore all that talk out there about exercising three or four days a week. Ignore it. Our national cholesterol guideline is a bare minimum, a desperate plea from the medical profession to a nation of couch potatoes.

Remember your body craves the daily chemistry of exercise.

So experiment with a variety of different aerobic exercises, and work hard to find some out outdoor sports that you like.

Keep your heart rate in the high aerobic zone at the gym, in the low aerobic zone while exercising outside, and you'll get great results.