[AuRavelling79]

Working as a window cleaner naturally helps you keep fit, but do any of us do anything else:-
e.g. swimming/running/cycling/weights etc?

[Ian_Giles]

Although my attention towards training has faded in recent years, I do still play cricket.
A tame game some of you may think?
But I am a bowler, a seam bowler, I have no great pace anymore, but I am a swing bowler.
Although I am not a 'fast' bowler, I do put every ounce of physical effort into my bowling.
When you are doing up to 2 hours of bowling during nets it is incredibly demanding on the seam bowlers.
The stresses and strains for the spin bowlers differ.
Indoor nets are now 3 weeks old, the aches and pains now only take 2 or 3 days to fade.
This will soon move to outdoor nets, and training perhaps twice a week and one or two matches on the weekend.
So from now until September I will be training about 4 hours a week, and then matches on the weekend when the season begins.

This just about manages to maintain my fitness levels above most people in their 40's & 50's
I have found that as a result of doing a physical job all my life plus an awful lot of training in gyms, 20 years of just about sub county squash (finished playing about 6 years ago) I am far stronger and have far more endurance than people half my age.
It shocks me sometimes when I see how weak and feeble adults can become.

Many on the forum will have good strength and stamina, even if they do no training at all, the job sees to that.
And those of you who are young and fit will not notice how feeble those only a few years older than you are, or is you do you may assume it is just another facet of getting older.
Window cleaning, whether you are lugging ladders or using WFP may well put more than a few stresses on out bodies, but it keeps us strong too, and those of you that have the energy to indulge in sport that raises your cardiovascular levels have the best of both worlds

Talking of cardiovascular workouts, doing this post has kept me from going out on my mountain bike. I'm a fair weather mountain biker, I'm off out for an hour or two :

Ian

[Stuart Webster]

I cycle, although i've not done much over the winter. Plan to do 1/2 hour at least 4 mornings a week plus a good run on Sundays.

[karlosdaze]

Come April I swim every morning in the sea.

[Ian_Giles]

Karlos,
An initial jaw drop
Then remembered (and read) that you are in the middle of the Med
I too would be the same as you, I love swimming & snorkling, when we holiday somewhere with a warm sea I'll spend 3 or 4 hours out in the sea.
Usually no more than an hour & a half at time as the missus panics if I am gone to long.

Ian

[pete fearn]

I lift a few weight most saturday nights in my local, thats enough for me, if i had enough energy to go to the gym then i havent worked hard enough that day

[dustycorner]

Hi all,

i play five a side on friday and sunday evenings, and badminton on wednesday. Its my intention to start jogging soon becuase i want to do a marathon next year.

Cheers Mark

[stephen]

mountain bike about 60 miles a week two day rides and one night ride. bikes worth more then my car. 

[thewindowcleaner1]

If the missus see's me sitting down she believes that I've nothing to do and gives me a list, So I exercise my mind and find ways of looking busy, and she thinks I'm dead good - always on the go.-

[Duke]

Diving, Motorcycling,Surfing, Skateboarding,Judo,Boxing....or maybe just go up the pub...

[Justin H]

Gym 2-3 times a week for an hour or two.Depends how knackered I am.I do work 8-9 hard hours a day but find since doing gym work & giving up caffeine I get less tired after a days work.Strange eh?

[marc al]

 I sometimes hunt for the telly controls!

[Walter Pole]

Cycling does for me    During the Summer I try to take Fridays' off and take off for the day...well 4/5 hours anyway and see how far I can go. 110 miles in 6 hours my longest in one go.  Although I did cycle down the PCH in California which is 512 miles from San Fransisco to LA over 10 days a couple of years ago.

[AuRavelling79]

That's amazing chartermarque - the most I've ever done in just one hour is 17miles! (On a cheapo imitation "mountain bike".)

[windows_chepstow]

I'm a fair weather jogger, but Wor Lass - who's also a window cleaner - is a FANATICAL runner.  Body of an athelete, with black or missing toe nails to boot.

She runs at least four days a week, six if she's training for a marathon.  She also races for Chepstow Harriers.  She's just had her name in the sports pages in the local rag for the womens team.

I honestly don't know how she does it!  Cleans windows all day; in-between guzzling some energy drink; then goes for a ten miler; returns home and does the dishes!

She's one of those people who just can't stay still.  She wakes up; grabs the hoover and rattles it all round the house.

She certainly enjoys (and deserves) her sleep though!

[Duke]

blimey...she's just like mine then...can't sit still for a minute...

[Mikey Y]

I go weight training 3 times a week and have done for over 25 years, and also play tennis between 2 and four hours a week, which is tough going here in the summer after sweating all day cleaning windows. my poor missis has a mountain of T shirts to wash and iron every day.

Mike
Southern Spain

[Glass Ben]

I never used to do exercise because I would be too tired after a hard day.
Last year I broke my ankle and was on cruthces for 6 weeks and found  I needed to use weights to beef my arms up. Now I workout most days and have found my stamina level has gone through the roof. I never come home and collapse in the arm chair like I used to?  

[baldeagle]

I dance! Ballroom mostly, with some sequence.
Started last year, once I recovered from bypass surgery in June 2003 [4 bypasses].
I find that having "worked up" a small W/C round a few weeks ago, two or three halfdays per week, together with the dancing, is sufficient to keep me quite fit, thanks.
I'm building up the muscles in my legs, and at nearly 60, I'm probably fitter, [but not necessarily stronger], than many chaps half my age.
John, [Baldeagle]

[windows_chepstow]

I recovered from bypass surgery in June 2003 [4 bypasses].
I find that having "worked up" a small W/C round a few weeks ago, two or three halfdays per week...... and at nearly 60.
John, [Baldeagle]

I'm really impressed and I'm sure that as your round grows; so will your strength, health and fitness. 

But what possessed you to start a window cleaning round at 60?

Regards

Tosh