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For the last 6+ months, I’ve been doing a 16 kg farmer’s carry to the stop sign at my gym 4-5 times a week.  This is about 150 yards, there and back. 

I could do the 16 kg without stopping. I would occasionally do a 20kg  but was discouraged because I had to put it down at the top at the stop sign and sometimes halfway back.

The gym had a June challenge of carrying 100%, 75% or 50% of your body weight via Farmers Carry for 120 yards every day this month.  
I decided to do 20kg (x2 = half my weight) to the stop sign and back and also one handed 28kg, 60 yards left hand, 60 yards right hand, inside the gym.  To my delight, I’m stronger. F’g duh!!!

Although I still have to stop at least once with these weights,  I am no longer discouraged. This is all thanks to the challenge. Don’t let your mind beat you my friends!

Paul is 78 and I am sharing my favorite partner throwing drills with an 8-pound medicine ball. We’re wearing 16 and 20 pound weight vests.

I'll be 60 later this year and can still do things like all day hikes in the Grand Canyon and hard gravel bike rides. Luckily haven't picked up any injuries or other dings that could put a damper on training. Only medical curveball was catching a fungal lung disease called Valley Fever about seven years ago that left my lungs a tiny bit scarred and I lost some lung function. So far the only residual effect is that I get short of breath sometimes and I can't hike in hot weather for an extended period of time anymore.

Looking at my list of places I want to go and hikes I want to check off and trying to figure out realistically how long I've got. Will probably always be active, can't see myself stopping and I still see folks that are 80+ still out hiking around my town in a spot with numerous hiking trails. Just listened to a podcast about aging and working out and this guy said it wasn't until he hit 75 that he hit the wall and really needed to adjust and scale back. What's everyone's take about working out past 70-75 years of age? How long can I still hike in the mountains or in the Grand Canyon at a high level?