Glad to know your Hubby is on the mend orchid...great news!!! I envy you going to all of those Olympic events!! I hope you are enjoying every second!!!!

I keep looking in the audience expecting to see a Boomer Women Speak sign so we know it's you, LOL!!!

Great idea chats.

orchid, seems like your hubby should still take it easy. I hope he doesn't push himself. This may be his body telling him to slow down a bit.

When we aqe we heal so much slower, what a kick in the head that is!!!

I do notice certain things and have told him. And then leave it alone.

I hope he will make a dr.'s appt. to have a physical checkup. He is avoiding this..for past 2 years. And I know partially why: probably wants to avoid knowing how much weight he's gained, etc. But he has been returning to cycling..around 35-40 kms. each day after his collision. I do nothing to stand in his way. He is resting his butt now, because climbing hills on bike, means pushing down which is making it more painful. But he is not stoppping from doing abit of cycling every day.

For people who have been healthy for a long time, it's a matter of striking a discreet balance of care and respectful encouragement...it never stops, folks. Very healthy people are ALWAYS working towards their own good health. It's just some people have found something physical that they enjoy doing so they keep on doing it and after awhile, they don't talk about it with others. And always, always remember for healthy folks, have their own long-term health problems, but they just don't allow themselves to dwell on it too much. (He's had tinnitus, nacrolepsy for past few decades.)

Then other people think such folks have inherited a good luck/good physical fitness gene. Nope. It's just mindful living, movement and mindful eating.

I agree with the mindful living, and I totally believe if we stop using it, we lose it. Just hoping he isn't over-doing.

Same here, Dotsie about the overdoing. But he tells me if he hurts ..or right now, he's napping. That's more his narcolepsy where he can't sleep fully so he naps briefly.

It does help for a couple, if each person is physically active in some form of exercise (doesn't have to be done together) so that the other person can sense what is truly 'normal' exercise vs. overdoing it. If I didn't do any form of exercise then I would have no personal experience to benchmark what is really 'overdoing' it.

On a totally different different but related to supporting a partner in exercise activity:

when I did witness and cheering the Olympic torch relay at different points in Vancouver, I found myself thinking of the times I would talk on phone, email or Skype him when he did his cross-country bike trips by himself in Canada and New Zealand.

So important to support a partner on exercise, making healthy changes, etc. It is a "journey" in itself.

I'm totally with you about supporting one another's physical activity. Ross goes to the Y and works out for at least an hour 4-5 times a week. He started doing it for his health, but now he does it because if he doesn't, he feels out of whack, physically and emotionally. I encourage him to go. In fact, when we go out on weekend nights, he exercises right before we go, comes home and takes a shower and is just like the young guy I dated all those years ago.

I'm still walking, and absolutely love it. In fact, it's going to be 50 and sunny this weekend so my walking partner and I are gearing up for two walks that will be about an hour and a half each. Can't wait.

My husband is religious about working out too...and it makes me feel even more guilty when I don't do anything...I have been sort of depressed this winter so I have been in hibernation mode...reading alot..hanging out online...TSK TSK...very very bad..I'm hoping the arrival of Spring gives me the butt kicking I need to become active again.

Dotsie you are forunate to have a walking partner to keep you motivated!!