hello and welcome to coffee with lyman today what i'd like to no i can't resist
heaven in a cup today what i want to talk to you about is exercise exercising
how to take care of yourself because the things you do when you're young
will be there to shake your hand when you're old
you do things that hurt yourself that hurts your life when you're young you're going to suffer
for those when you're old the good things you do for yourself for your body for your
finances all that sort of thing you know invest save money those things are going to help you
when you get older so the wise thing is to try to do the right things throughout your life
there's moderation in everything you don't want to go overboard and uh just be some crazy person
who has no enjoyment in life whatsoever they they hoard every penny they get they would
never dream of eating anything that just tastes good for the sake of enjoying the taste of it
things like that they'll never take a trip because they'd have to spend money
uh they'd never go to a gym because hey i could do push-ups on the floor at home
excuse me things like that so moderation you don't want too much you don't want too little right you
shouldn't be sitting at home eating chocolate ice cream and fried chicken every night right
okay but you shouldn't live a life where you absolutely refuse to ever touch them either
right okay so the happy medium well what my point is here is or about exercise is
take care of yourself throughout your life okay now when i was a kid uh uh
like i was in my early 20s i was always before i ever exercised with any weights right i
really had nothing to do with exercising i wasn't a fat kid i wasn't a fat teenager
but uh i didn't do much for exercising well then i got in my head that hey i want to change my
body have you ever heard of something called the keys to the universe well i heard about that and
on the tv commercials probably in the back of magazines there were little
books you could order and things like that this is way before amazon or the internet and
what they claimed you could do is
keep yourself youthful and healthy and big and strong all your life until you're a very old man
but they didn't really go so deep into it they told you the good parts but not the bad
the good parts are yes it's true if you exercise a muscle with more weight say you can only pick that
up five times five repetitions and then on the sixth repetition you you can't get it up anymore
well now you've taxed that muscle out right you've you've made it tired you can't do more your brain
knows that your body needs bigger muscles to do what you're doing it needs more strength more
strength usually is going to require more muscle so i'm talking about men here testosterone men
tend to get stronger bigger muscles than women who have very small amounts of testosterone
it's a natural thing not that there aren't a lot of very big strong powerful women
but like a lot of the big strong powerful men they take steroids to get that way
and steroids are a thing that are very unhealthy for you if you're taking them in that regards
if you go to the doctor the doctor says you need some steroids for something that's different okay
but steroids are very hard on your body in the form i'm talking about dianaball and all these
up higher things i never took any steroids but i did exercise with weights i got into that and i
wanted to get as massive as huge as i could that was my goal i wanted to be a bodybuilder i want
to at least one time go on a stage and perform do my routine you know opposed to music like the
eye of the tiger that sort of thing that's what i practiced too i wanted to do it at least one time
and i wasn't really worried about winning because i really never thought i would
or even place but i didn't want to do it and be embarrassed how i looked up there
you know people are booing or groaning or whatever because you look pathetic
i never did that i got to a point where i probably could have taken a shot at and wouldn't have got
booed off but it was like i was it was a changing time in my life and i just had kind of
given up at the same time so didn't do it be nice to say i did now but i didn't okay so
anyway the muscles get bigger but your joints wear out you have cartilage in between where your
forearm meet your upper arm where all the knuckles in your hands your hips all these
every place you have a joint in your body they are lined with cartilage well the cartilage wears out
now you can take things like glycosamine you can take those things and that helps to regenerate
it but you're probably not going to get that far with it so it's a mistake to overdo the exercising
now i've done some over exercising and uh and and am now paying the price for that
uh at at my strongest i could bench press i wanted to be able to bench press 300 pounds
in the realm of bodybuilders that's not a lot of weight what did i get up to 295 bench press you
know you lay on your back push it up that was the highest i ever got was 295 okay and then there's
the squats where you got the bar across the back of your neck and your squat way down and stand up
with the weight behind you i wanted to be able to squat 500 pounds not a big deal in the world of
uh bodybuilding but it was my goal i got the 485. okay and then uh there's the deadlift
where you no i'm sorry i think my squats were like four 450 somewhere is in there
the deadlift where you simply squat down but you grab the bar that's in front of you on the ground
and you stand up and pick it up and you hold the bar in front of you with your arms straight down
i want to do 500 pounds on that also 485 it was 485 i got that's all the further i ever got
but i was muscular i looked good i looked like i was working out with weights you
could tell by looking at me but anyways you go to the gym for like an hour and a half
and just work as hard as you can with those weights or anything you're doing it could be
whatever but the weight resistant puts resistance from the weight puts more stress on your joints
and that causes your cartilage to wear out faster yes indeed it's great for the muscles the muscles
thrive on that and they do get bigger and stronger and you get all pumped up and you feel so good
it's like a high so it's too much of it now if you're going to exercise and take care of yourself
that's what this video is relaying a message about is don't hurt yourself
when you're young work out with lighter weights if you're going to run five miles every day you're
gonna do some damage to yourself right but if you ran a much less amount three times a week you'd
probably do more good for your body if you walked fast three times a week that would probably even
be better because you don't have the jarring on your body from running now i was in the military
for uh 22 years and you have to run for physical fitness training in the mornings that's all there
is to it you're going to do it or you're going to get out well i did that for about the first
i guess it was 17 years i was in for 22 years for the first 17 years i did all the running
but by that time because i'm kind of a heavy person i'm not really built for running but i
would max the pt test i would run i could run two miles in i think it was 13 minutes and 12 seconds
something like that that was the maximum for my age and being a male it changes as you get older
or if you're male or female but for me to get the max and the pt test you get more points you
can get promoted faster same thing with push-ups and sit-ups now the pt test is a whole different
animal but when i was in those were the big things so of course i practiced them like crazy
but all that stuff wears you out so i couldn't do the running anymore so i had to get a special
some special paperwork saying hey he's still a good soldier he can do his job even though he
can't run so they gave me a i could walk a certain speed and distance instead of run or i could swim
or i could ride a bike right instead of running but it's a big deal a lot of people get kicked
out because of that but if you have a really good record you can stay in with that problem
so anyways that's what i did but those things catch up with you when you get older right and
that's that's what this video is about it's really important it's really important to
take care of yourself the food you eat i'm lucky my arteries aren't all plugged up with
fat and such but they could be i'm just lucky that way i tend to have a low bad cholesterol and good
high cholesterol okay so here i am now right there are some photos in this video of me when i was
about 27 years old i was in my peak condition as a bodybuilder i was never a professional bodybuilder
but i was trying 2b never took any steroids just took supplements ate well exercised as well as i
could and all that now that was me then here i am now right so we're talking about what 35 years ago
something like that and this is to point out to you that getting old ain't for sissies
now here i am i have a naturally wide waist even when i'm trim right well
here you go not so trim i can suck my gut in to some degree but you know it's not good got the fat
back here pretty lucky in here you know i never put on weight there but anyway now i still do
exercise during this pandemic over the last year i haven't gone to a gym just started going again
this week as a matter of fact no last week and during the downtime that year of the pandemic
all i've done was exercise occasionally with some dumbbells i have at my home here now i i still got
some muscle you know i can do this number here like this and you know try and get the traps up
there i can do this where you got some of the packs going shave and a haircut six bits i can
still do those things uh my legs i really can't exercise them anymore because my knees are so bad
apparently i've got arthritis in my knees and yeah starting to see a doctor about that soon but
my problem is i take in too many calories i can exercise all day long but if i ate
as much as i'd like to because i'm hungry and don't eat the right foods i'm going to be fat
and i know this and i still eat the wrong foods eat too much i drink alcohol i drink
too much of that that makes me hungrier so not only that calories from the alcohol but the
calories i consume in whatever garbage food i eat afterwards because it makes me hungry when i drink
all those things so what i'm going to do now i'm going to clean up my act i'm going to put an
effort on it and because i'm putting myself on the video here like this
i'm kind of obligated obligated to stick to this right so i don't look quite so silly
later when i get myself up in front of the camera again okay but i'm gonna do it through
less calories and more exercising but the exercising really is to try to keep up the muscles
on this old man all right that's me now that's all i'm going to put out today except that right now
i weigh 219 pounds and my right weight would be according to the national charts would be
for an adult male uh six feet tall 72 inches i should weigh no more than 184 pounds so i would
need to lose about 35 pounds and i'd be pretty thrilled to get down to about 25 pounds less 20
25 pounds that put me in the range of say 190 to 195 but 219 now so i got a lot of weight to lose
and that's what i intend to do so thank you for watching and until next time goodbye for now
you