@thestrongdoc I really hope to be able to do pull-ups one day. I started this year with the goal of being able to do them, but my second week in I developed tendinitis in my proximal bicep tendon. So now I’m trying to rehab it. Hopefully I will get there this year. 🤞🙏
63-year-old female here. You’re doing great, but you need to let go of the ego and lighten up on the weight until you can go to full depth. Trust me, I struggled with it myself when I started squatting 10 years ago. I had a lot of mobility issues and weak links to correct before I could start going up on the weight. I was trying to go heavier before I had the form down, but that is a recipe for injury. Back off on the weight and get your form perfect, then start progressing to lift heavier. It’s much better to lift lighter weight with perfect form and full range of motion. Eventually, you will be able to go heavier with good form and full range of motion. This will also help protect you from injuring yourself. Good job!
I didn’t know that you had to be good enough to play golf. I thought it was a sport like every other sport. Like tennis, volleyball, baseball, etc. Some people are really good at these sports and some are just amateurs and do it for enjoyment. What’s wrong with playing golf for enjoyment? I don’t get the hate on this one.
Tail end Boomer here. Born in 1962. I worked fast food as my first job in high school. Made a couple of dollars an hour. Never thought of making that my career. If you want to get into management in fast food, that’s a different story, and it is possible to work your way up. But if we paid burger flippers and grocery baggers $50,000 a year, no one would be able to afford fast food or groceries because they would have to raise prices astronomically to cover the cost and those businesses would cease to exist. That’s just stupid. Those are entry-level jobs meant for high school and college students to earn extra money, not for families to survive on. When you become an adult and want to earn a living wage, learn a trade or go to school and get a degree in something practical, i.e. not gender studies or art history. That’s how you make a living wage and support a family. Even a community college degree can get you a decent job. In my state, community college is free. It’s just a no-brainer. Nobody is going to pay $50 for a fast food meal. So nobody is going to pay burger flippers a “living wage.”
Yes, I am the oldest of six born in late 62. Most of my siblings are Gen Xers, and I have much more in common with Gen X than the boomers. I took typing in high school, but when I went to college, I minored in computer science. My actual boomer friends and relatives struggled with technology, but I got into it as a young adult and had more of the Gen X experience than the other boomers that I knew.