cjsmith | (Reply)

Saturday, December 15th, 2018 02:10 pm (UTC)

For health, I am trying to lower my blood sugar levels, so there's the diet part. For actual physical fitness:

Swim a mile comfortably
Walk two miles without feeling tired afterwards
Lift a standard copier paper box of books comfortably
Wrangle a snow-blower after a two foot snowfall (I live in Northern New England)
Be able to stack a couple of cords of wood in a day (see previous)
Be able to help push a car out of a ditch (again, see previous)
Be active enough that I think driving to a grocery store is a silly waste of gas. This means being able to carry a heavy back pack full of groceries about a half a mile.
Be able to lift a suitcase over my head into the overhead compartment on a train or airplane
Be able to run from one end of an airport to another to catch a flight on too close of a connection.
Be able to give a four to six-hour lecture on my feet being physically active and animated the whole time. (I teach computer applications as well as rant about physical fitness. If you’re not active and animated, you lose your audience quick).
Be able to change a 5 gallon water jug in a water cooler without spilling water all over the floor or throwing out my back.