k.diver

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Re: Prolonging my window cleaning life!!!!What exercises??
« Reply #20 on: May 18, 2017, 07:35:48 pm »
I am 68 years young and , still going well strong. All I have changed over the years is work on the more lucrative work. I don't try to do too much work per day. It's not volume for me is pricing. I also leave Fridays free to catch up if need be. It's a numbers game the highest number I can charge.
 If you in your fifties feel stuffed you will not make the sixties. I have no pensions so have not option but work.
the state pension ?

paul alan

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Re: Prolonging my window cleaning life!!!!What exercises??
« Reply #21 on: May 18, 2017, 08:47:12 pm »
Peanuts?

Tom White

Re: Prolonging my window cleaning life!!!!What exercises??
« Reply #22 on: May 21, 2017, 01:15:15 am »
Hi i am 58 and in reasonable nick but i am only too aware of the toll that window cleaning takes.
My friend(58) has shoulder problems and has been told by the doctor that he needs to slow down with his window cleaning work to help!! What i want to know is if we went to the gym what equipment and/or exercises would be best to help with shoulders,neck etc?
Cheers.

Just general strength training focusing on compound exercises, running and stretching.  At 58 you will need to do stuff like squats to help raise testosterone levels, which will help with everything else.  Working the legs causes a hormonal change which will help when you work stuff like your back/shoulders/chest/arms.

I'm 48 and feel fitter and stronger than when I was a young squaddie.

Work feels like a doddle; awkward reaches aren't awkward anymore.

For specific exercises just google.  5 x 5 routines are effective.  Lift heavy, keep the reps low, use running for endurance and weight training for strength.  Start gentle though and build it up. 

Jay Le Huray

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Re: Prolonging my window cleaning life!!!!What exercises??
« Reply #23 on: May 21, 2017, 06:14:13 am »
I'm 64 have prostrate cancer and still working full time and I intend doing so for a few more years to come

H MAN

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Re: Prolonging my window cleaning life!!!!What exercises??
« Reply #24 on: May 21, 2017, 06:37:31 am »
Does it help to wear your pants on your head  ???
Don't know show us a picture tell you. ;D ::)roll

Don Simon

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Re: Prolonging my window cleaning life!!!!What exercises??
« Reply #25 on: May 21, 2017, 06:51:54 am »
To relieve stress at weekends I like to shave my body, and put on my wife's clothes.   I have killer legs and in 6 inch heels I am a bit of a knockout  :D
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

Soupy

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Re: Prolonging my window cleaning life!!!!What exercises??
« Reply #26 on: May 21, 2017, 07:10:15 am »
I'm 64 have prostrate cancer and still working full time and I intend doing so for a few more years to come

Sorry to hear that.
Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it - George Orwell

Don Simon

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Re: Prolonging my window cleaning life!!!!What exercises??
« Reply #27 on: May 21, 2017, 08:43:19 am »
I'm 64 have prostrate cancer and still working full time and I intend doing so for a few more years to come
You will beat it, have a friend  who got the all clear keep fighting  my prayers and thoughts are with you my friend.
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

Tom White

Re: Prolonging my window cleaning life!!!!What exercises??
« Reply #28 on: May 21, 2017, 09:17:50 am »
I'm 64 have prostrate cancer and still working full time and I intend doing so for a few more years to come

I've a neighbor with that.  He's in his 70s.  He tells me that if they did nothing about it, he'd still probably have another 10 years left in him.  But he's getting treatment and that should sort it.

Prostate cancer isn't - I think - the scary thing it used to be.  I just say that because a large portion of us are also going to get it (about 1 in 8 for those of us lucky to live long enough). 

I'm not looking forward to my turn though. :'(

Good luck with yours.

Mike Halliday

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Re: Prolonging my window cleaning life!!!!What exercises??
« Reply #29 on: May 22, 2017, 06:23:27 am »
I'm 64 have prostrate cancer and still working full time and I intend doing so for a few more years to come

My father & grandfather both died with prostate cancer I say with not of because although they both had it they never died from it, I'm settled on the fact I will in later life get it.

My grandfather was 85 when he tripped in town, banged his head and died, my dad trapped in his bedroom broke  his arm he never left hospital,  died 2 weeks later he was 89. If they had not fell over they would both have lived much longer.
Mike Halliday.  www.henryhalliday.co.uk