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The Importance of Exercise - Part 3

I’m now 85 years old and, nebbech, living in a Nursing Home. But I’m convinced that all the exercise and walking I’ve done in the past has increased my life span by 6 months. As a result, I will be spending a further 6 months in this Home at a cost of $3,500 per month. Oy!

 


So what about my darling husband Harry? When he reached 50, my Harry thought he was quite fit and decided to join an upmarket health club. It seemed all the Jews in North ondon went there. On his first day, Harry went into Room 50, the exercise room for over 50s, and tried out their stair-step machine. He told the instructor what he anted to do and the instructor asked, "Shall I set it for five, ten or twenty minutes?"

"Make it ten," Harry replied conservatively.

But after only a few minutes on the machine, his legs felt like lead and he could hardly breathe, so he got off the machine. As he limped past some of the other men in oom 50 who were resting from their workouts, Harry said to them, "I could only take three minutes on that thing."

"OK, OK," replied one of them, "You don’t have to brag about it."

 

 

But then in his mid 50's, Harry had a relatively minor heart attack. While he was in hospital, his cardiologist told him that sex would be a wonderful exercise for his eart and the best thing he could do for a speedy recovery. He suggested that when Harry returned home, he should have sex 3 or 4 times a week.  So when Harry returned nd told me this, I replied, "That's wonderful, Harry. Sign me up for twice a week."

 

Harry eventually got to love the walks we did together in our old age, because whenever we got back, it allowed him to say, “It’s great to hear heavy breathing once again.”

 

Harry’s brother was always telling us that ‘health’ was so much more important than ‘wealth’. When my Harry died, he left his brother his exercise bike and treadmill.  What are family for, I say?

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