{"id":62,"date":"2026-03-26T15:36:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kissingbridgetrailway.ca\/?p=62"},"modified":"2026-03-26T15:36:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:36:39","slug":"bruce-trail-and-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kissingbridgetrailway.ca\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Trail and aging."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Something that\u2019s been on my mind as I plan out the summer\u2019s activities is aging well. I think it\u2019s because I\u2019m witnessing in real time my parents age, but also, I am getting older myself. Now I know that this happens and has been happening, but it seems like for the first time in my life that it is happening to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My twenties and thirties really felt no different from each other. It also probably helps that I\u2019ve always looked younger than what I am. But now I\u2019m in my forties, staring down forty-one this summer and I realized that it\u2019s only going to keep happening. So, things that I want to do like hike the Bruce Trail<\/a> in my lifetime are going to have to be managed.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Also in the Niagara Escarpment, the Falls. The better view is from the Canadian side. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Granted, I still feel young. Except for the ever creeping exhaustion that comes with having a young kiddo. But on my good days I feel no different than 25, but the realities of my body are not based on two and a half decades, but four.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently I went to a pelvic floor physio because I have been living in pain for over a year. Upper back pain, shoulder pain and now lower back pain. So much so that I\u2019ve put one of our tatami mats under my mattress because I actually threw my lower back out last month. It\u2019s an old mattress and I was waking up hurting so much that something had to be done. But now after my physio appointment I now have an action plan to strengthen my scapulas, stretch the piriformis, and roll out my IT band. Let me be clear, that last one sucks. But for the past couple of mornings, I haven\u2019t woken up in pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to these exercises I\u2019m going to hit up my friend at Beyond Fitness. They are a personal trainer in Victoria BC<\/a> but they offer workout plans for anyone. Sadly I am not in BC, but Ontario but after learning about the Ontario Collaborative for Aging Well<\/a>, I feel like getting stronger is no longer an option. Reading about people who are living with frailty gives me a heavy feeling in the pit of my stomach. I don\u2019t ever want to live with frailty. That sounds horrible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve even talked to my father about this and guess what? He\u2019s started doing body weight squats and elbow planks. He\u2019s almost seventy! He\u2019s also mentioned that while going on walks around his home he has taken now to doing small sprints up a hill? Coloured me impressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For all my readers, let\u2019s get strong. Let\u2019s kick frailty\u2019s ass and explore as much of the world as we can for as long as we can.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Something that\u2019s been on my mind as I plan out the summer\u2019s activities is aging well. I think it\u2019s because I\u2019m witnessing in real time my parents age, but also, I am getting older myself. Now I know that this happens and has been happening, but it seems like for the first time in my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kissingbridgetrailway.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kissingbridgetrailway.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kissingbridgetrailway.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kissingbridgetrailway.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kissingbridgetrailway.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kissingbridgetrailway.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"https:\/\/kissingbridgetrailway.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kissingbridgetrailway.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kissingbridgetrailway.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kissingbridgetrailway.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kissingbridgetrailway.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}