Nearly all of most farang ken on Pattaya have big bellies , sweating , puffing

Why don't you exercise if your over 60 this is the answer I'm looking for

I mean sometimes I hear stories from old-timers in Pattaya ,oh I use to be a champion rugby player etc

My Theory is recovery ...you tried the exercise say at a gym and your recovery is low which is understandable your mind becomes lazy and your body tired

I plan to do boxing whilst I'm in Pattaya maybe even Muay Thai ...can I go full at it ....no not at my age , but I'm trying unlike many of you who look far far older than your age

Is alcohol a killer to recovery after 60 ...please let me know

Do you need more carbs after 60

Why are you not exercising after 60 ,,, I realised we can't do it everyday ..but at least 3 times a week

Why ?

Tiredness ? Not interested? Too much effort / pain in getting out of breath? Too much recovery time??

Pain ?

You really should be doing boxing or muay Thai training ..I'm not talking about hitting hard in talking about stamina

What about running a few times a week past 60??

Knee problems then WALK

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9 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

Nearly all of most farang ken on Pattaya have big bellies , sweating , puffing

Why don't you exercise

Most of these foreigners in Thailand come from government housing estates, housing commission.

These people have rarely worked a day in their life, sponging off the social security systems.

These people eat take away food mostly because they are too fking lazy to grocery shop, food preparation, cook and clean.

Just now, SAFETY FIRST said:

Most of the foreign retirees in Thailand come from government housing estates, housing commission.

These people have rarely worked a day in their life, sponging off the social security systems.

These people eat take away food mostly because they are too fk lazy to shop, prepare, cook and clean.

Very true ..many including the Brits are from housing commission housing or as they I think, call them in the UK, council housing ..but ..that's no excuse to be sick tired & unfit past 60 because you come from low class areas

2 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

Very true ..many including the Brits are from housing commission housing or as they I think, call them in the UK, council housing ..but ..that's no excuse to be sick tired & unfit past 60 because you come from low class areas

Yep, but these lazy type have lost their self respect, they don't care about their health, they just want to travel on their disability scooters and Zimmer frames, this way they get sympathy from others.

They are attention seekers, wanting others to feel sorry for them.

Why worry about what other foreigners are doing? People don't just move to another country and change after 60. A person that's taken care of themself for decades will certainly keep it up. Assuming what or why other people do things that doesn't affect you is a waste of your time. It also has nothing to do with money or the lack of it.

If you look where you're living in Australia, you'll see the majority of people there are overweight. This happens all over the world and is increasing in the Asian countries, where it wasn't that obvious until the last 2 decades, western food and drink the culprits. Let people enjoy their lives while they're here. No one really knows how long they'll live, and people who exercise and eat well die every day.

1 minute ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Yep, but these lazy type have lost their self respect, they don't care about their health, they just want to travel on their disability scooters and Zimmer frames, this way they get sympathy from others.

Lol...I actually caught a old guy in Jomtien on my last visit riding one of these mobility scooters , I shouldn't say "old" as he was about 60 , Aussie guy fat overweight and told me he was on the disability pension from Australia as he couldn't work as he had 5 different sicknesses

Apparently Centrelink/ Dept of social security at one stage stopped his disability pension trying to make him work 20 hours a week until he fought in court to beat them as he had trouble walking as he was well near 200kg

He parked his mobility scooter outside the sports bar in Jomtien, the rubbish sports bar opposite subway ,

As he got off he huffed and puffed walking his sweaty fat arse to the chair sitting down drinking beer and two packets of crisps, he only walked a few metres and was wiping his face with napkins sweat pouring off him

As I was leaving this rubbish place I walked over to him and whispered in his ear ...."Go to the gym nine bums !!!!!!

What ? He said shocked

The elderly I presume Australian owner shouted to me "get outta here mate !

What is your exercise plan, to run away from or to the arms of amorous monkeys and ladyboys

15 minutes ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Most of these foreigners in Thailand come from government housing estates, housing commission.

These people have rarely worked a day in their life, sponging off the social security systems.

These people eat take away food mostly because they are too fking lazy to grocery shop, food preparation, cook and clean.

Most people who receive Social Security have worked. The ones that haven't worked, or not much, receive benefits from survivor benefits and spouses, which is mostly women. Some receive benefits because they can't work, disability. Most of the foreigners that come here are on pensions or worked to receive their SS benefits.

4 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

Lol...I actually caught a old guy in Jomtien on my last visit riding one of these mobility scooters , I shouldn't say "old" as he was about 60 , Aussie guy fat overweight and told me he was on the disability pension from Australia as he couldn't work as he had 5 different sicknesses

Apparently Centrelink/ Dept of social security at one stage stopped his disability pension trying to make him work 20 hours a week until he fought in court to beat them

He parked his mobility scooter outside the sports bar in Jomtien, the rubbish sports bar opposite subway ,

As he got off he huffed and puffed walking his fat arse to the chair

As I was leaving this rubbish place I walked over to him and whispered in his ear ...."Go to the gym !!!!

Isn't it you that's told us multiple times you're always visiting a variety of doctors, weekly in fact? People who exercise and eat healthy for years usually aren't going to doctors on a weekly basis.

5 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

Lol...I actually caught a old guy in Jomtien on my last visit riding one of these mobility scooters , I shouldn't say "old" as he was about 60 , Aussie guy fat overweight and told me he was on the disability pension from Australia as he couldn't work as he had 5 different sicknesses

Apparently Centrelink/ Dept of social security at one stage stopped his disability pension trying to make him work 20 hours a week until he fought in court to beat them as he had trouble walking as he was well near 200kg

He parked his mobility scooter outside the sports bar in Jomtien, the rubbish sports bar opposite subway ,

As he got off he huffed and puffed walking his sweaty fat arse to the chair sitting down drinking beer and crisps

As I was leaving this rubbish place I walked over to him and whispered in his ear ...."Go to the gym nine bums !!!!!!

Any tips on how to get an Aussie disability pension?

I heard it pays well and you don't get penalised (financially) if you leave the country.

I train muay thai 7 days a week

55 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

My Theory is recovery ...you tried the exercise say at a gym and your recovery is low which is understandable your mind becomes lazy and your body tired

There are plenty of guys in the gyms.

But some of them are still in bad shape. Maybe they don't know how to train properly or are still eating way too much crap food.

Also, need to worry about injuries after a certain age, the body can not train like in your 20s. Some guys pushing themselves too hard in the gym and hurting themselves.

13 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

There are plenty of guys in the gyms.

But some of them are still in bad shape. Maybe they don't know how to train properly or are still eating way too much crap food.

Also, need to worry about injuries after a certain age, the body can not train like in your 20s. Some guys pushing themselves too hard in the gym and hurting themselves.

Do 30 reps light weights

26 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

Do 30 reps light weights

That would be more cardio then than strength

I started training two years ago, just passed 70. I am pretty consistent at it and I haven’t eaten a potato chip in two years. I gained 2% in muscle last year. The upper tier of what’s possible at my age

I still have a gut.

Bruce Springsteen, about my age, after a lifetime of training and three hour shows, has a bit of a gut too.

Older people look worse. Including you.

2 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

Nearly all of most farang ken on Pattaya have big bellies , sweating , puffing

Why don't you exercise if your over 60 this is the answer I'm looking for

I mean sometimes I hear stories from old-timers in Pattaya ,oh I use to be a champion rugby player etc

My Theory is recovery ...you tried the exercise say at a gym and your recovery is low which is understandable your mind becomes lazy and your body tired

I plan to do boxing whilst I'm in Pattaya maybe even Muay Thai ...can I go full at it ....no not at my age , but I'm trying unlike many of you who look far far older than your age

Is alcohol a killer to recovery after 60 ...please let me know

Do you need more carbs after 60

Why are you not exercising after 60 ,,, I realised we can't do it everyday ..but at least 3 times a week

Why ?

Tiredness ? Not interested? Too much effort / pain in getting out of breath? Too much recovery time??

Pain ?

You really should be doing boxing or muay Thai training ..I'm not talking about hitting hard in talking about stamina

What about running a few times a week past 60??

Knee problems then WALK

And if you don't like this post ....Leave !!!

Many former sports guys used to be in their prime good athletes, but athletes who are now 65, also used to be social after their games, and party, especially rugby players.

Today theri fame is gone, but the body remembers, and if you cant stop drinking and partying, the less time you got to recover from exercise and keep your old scared body free from pain from old tear and wear.

If you dont move, the more the old tear and wear will remind of your glory days.

Yes we should all stop drinking when we hit 60, or even before, and then I mean drinking and not a glass or two once and awhile. A balanced diet with carb is the best for everyone.

Good luck with your boxing!

You can exercise everyday, but thats low intensity training, more hard exercises needs to be less than before when younger, to take care of your nervous system!

56 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

That would be more cardio then than strength

I was at the gym 4 days a week and was exhausted.

The recovery was brutal and I was heading for injury.

And several guys in the gym had injuries.

Working with heavy weights in your 60s is high risk for injury.

I then did some research. There are different types of muscle fibers.

Apparently, they both can trigger muscle growth. Maybe the low weight / high rep not as much? But fatigue is lower, recovery is better, and much lower risk of injury.

2 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Most of these foreigners in Thailand come from government housing estates, housing commission.

These people have rarely worked a day in their life, sponging off the social security systems.

UK council housing

Just because someone lives in a "council house" does not make them paupers or automatically claiming social security system handouts. I agree that many are but NOT all. A "council tenant" is just the same as a tenant in a non council rented house.

3 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

Nearly all of most farang ken on Pattaya have big bellies , sweating , puffing

Why don't you exercise if your over 60 this is the answer I'm looking for

I stopped reading when I did not understand ALL OF MOST, KEN and YOUR...over 60.

13 minutes ago, wil iam not said:

I stopped reading when I did not understand ALL OF MOST, KEN and YOUR...over 60.

It's an academic thing.

Vulgar post removed

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4 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

Nearly all of most farang ken on Pattaya have big bellies , sweating , puffing

Why don't you exercise if your over 60 this is the answer I'm looking for

I don't know about 60's as I was still pretty athletic. After turning 70 changes in hormone levels became dominate. I bought a home gym and already have a treadmill. Gonna try to roll some of that back, but honestly, a lot of it is just age-related change. You don't stay young forever.

With that said - it's bicep, tricep, and abs day.

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4 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

Very true ..many including the Brits are from housing commission housing or as they I think, call them in the UK, council housing ..but ..that's no excuse to be sick tired & unfit past 60 because you come from low class areas

I know one thing. I don´t need an excuse for planning my own life, making my own decisions and not let you make them for me.

3 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

That would be more cardio then than strength

Arnold did 5 to 40 reps.

How about taking just 5 minutes and reflecting on your own life? Let us know what your own weaknesses are, talk about your own fallacies, and talk about something that you can actually affect change upon, rather than judging all of humanity around you, which is really tiresome, ridiculously judgmental, and incredibly lazy intellectually.

Start with yourself, you're the only one you can change.

Judge tenderly, if you must. There is usually a side you have not heard, a story you know nothing about, and a battle waged that you are not having to fight.

Traci Lea Larussa

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

Paulo Coehlo

When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world.

W. Somerset Maugham

56 minutes ago, connda said:

I don't know about 60's as I was still pretty athletic. After turning 70 changes in hormone levels became dominate. I bought a home gym and already have a treadmill. Gonna try to roll some of that back, but honestly, a lot of it is just age-related change. You don't stay young forever.

With that said - it's bicep, tricep, and abs day.

Ahhhh nice post-workout burn as I drink my strawberry and banana protein smoothie. The great thing I like about having my own gym, I don't have to wait on anyone else. My resistance training is about moving from an exercise for a muscle group, and then moving to another exercise for an opposing muscle group. Max time training is between 10 to 12 minutes max. I'm constantly moving.

What's the price of a annual fitness center / gym nowadays? The home gym cost me around 14K THB. I'll make up the price in a year and get more exercise because I don't have to travel to get to the gym, plus saving the cost of petrol.

32 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

Arnold did 5 to 40 reps.

My guess is that Arnold doesn't workout anything close to how he did at his peak. Like the rest of us, age catches up.

"On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero."
-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

4 hours ago, Harrisfan said:

I train muay thai 7 days a week

No you do not. That is an outrageous lie.

How could you with a phone in one hand posting on here?

35 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

How about taking just 5 minutes and reflecting on your own life? Let us know what your own weaknesses are, talk about your own fallacies, and talk about something that you can actually affect change upon, rather than judging all of humanity around you, which is really tiresome, ridiculously judgmental, and incredibly lazy intellectually.

Start with yourself, you're the only one you can change.

Judge tenderly, if you must. There is usually a side you have not heard, a story you know nothing about, and a battle waged that you are not having to fight.

Traci Lea Larussa

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

Paulo Coehlo

When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world.

W. Somerset Maugham

Oh what a load of codswallop , as someone would say , I don't know who , but someone quoted it