Strength training for people my age.

I was born in 1956.

That makes me old.

Granted, I'm pretty beat up these days.

I've had my share of injuries a result of having lived a rather careless life outdoors

on horses, motorcycles, bicycles, various competitive sports. People my age who have not spent their

years in a chair have an accumulation of aches and pains.

Most of them earned the hard way.

And for us, beat up or not, the best way to stay in the game is to train for strength.

The conventional wisdom is that older people, the term sticks in the craw, doesn't it?

Older people need to settle into a routine of walking around in the park when the weather is nice.

Maybe going to the mall for a brisk stroll in the comfort of the air conditioning, or a nice afternoon on the bicycle,

checking out maybe the local retirement communities at a leisurely pace, of course. And for the more

adventurous, conventional wisdom holds that a round of golf really stretches out the legs.

Maybe finishing up with a challenging game of Canasta. Your doctor will tell you that this is

enough to keep the old ticker ticking away. And should you choose to rev the engine like this every day,

you're doing everything you need to do to maintain the fantastic quality of life enjoyed by the

other old people at the mall. Standards, unfortunately, are low. Your doctor often assumes that he's also your

fitness consultant. When you get sick, go to your doctor. When you are deciding what to do to

extend your physical usefulness, how about taking a different approach

than asking his permission to get up off of your ass?

Maybe ask yourself whether your current physical condition

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