Over 60 ERE Biomarker and Related Metrics 5 Year Competition

[7Wannabe5]

@Henry:

Yeah, I think active investing is a lot like gardening in terms of keeping a human engaged in how things are doing and where things are going. Unfortunately, I find it difficult to maintain interest in active equity investing, because I don't like large corporations and don't want to see them grow. However, to the extent that I have engaged in the stock market in recent years, I've done fairly well roughly following Graham/Munger/Buffett model, which was also the model followed by my multi-multi-millionaire friend, who also was into gardening. OTOH, I do like trees, so I am able to maintain an interest in investing in trees, even as I grow too old to hope to see them full-grown.


My FitBit sez that my VO2 max or Cardio Fitness Score is 31-35 which is the Excellent category for women my age. Simultaneously, my own objective judgment of how "in shape" I am in currently would be Not So Good. Basically, all my metrics and my own sense of my body seem to consistently converge on a relatively healthy human who is rucking around a good deal of non-metabolically active fat. I wonder how I could weigh my ass independent of the rest of my body? I feel like my primary limiting fitness factor relative to other humans might be best expressed by the number of times I could lift the weight of my own ass over my head. It seems likely that FitBit is using a body weight agnostic method to calculate Cardio Fitness Score...


So, I made use of simple rough geometry and average density of human body figure found on the internet to estimate the current weight of my butt alone. I will not be sharing here, but will suffice to say that I confirmed my hypothesis that I am not currently able to lift equivalent weight over my head even once. This line of thinking also led to determining that one of my current fitness problems is hyper-lordosis due to weight of my butt relative to glute and core strength. My vague previous thought was that my lower back was experiencing intermittent minor pain for same reason that some women choose to get breast reduction to relieve upper-back strain. Luckily, I am only currently border-line suffering from that condition to the extent that taking off my bra in the evening is often a high moment in my day akin to first sip of coffee in the morning. I just looked and Nike does not make a sports bra for women with my current cup size. Ergo, further confirmation that non-visceral, not-metabolically-active, not in and of themselves unhealthy fat deposits can result in being labeled inherently unfit if limited to the basis of certain forms of discriminatory Roman-gym-boy-body favoring fitness competitions and/or associated metrics such as those that involve Burpees.

[7Wannabe5]

Digging deeper, it appears that my FitBit is updating my Cardiac Fitness Score (VO2max proxy) every time I take a fairly continuous brisk walk for at least 6 minutes. However, my heart rate only barely touched my theoretical Vigorous Zone (125-147 bpm)for a second during one of these walks. I was either in my Light Zone (under 108 bpm) or Moderate Zone (108-125 bpm). I didn't get near my Peak Zone (147-175 bpm.) It doesn't appear to update my score based on any stationary exercise that raises my heart rate. There is a grand staircase that is never used at my current residence, so I am going to attempt one of the staircase exercises to achieve near maximum heart rate, and see if/how that influences my score. I had the thought that maybe the fact that I had to climb 3 flights of stairs to get to my last tiny apartment multiple times every day, often with a heavily loaded backpack, was what kept me from sinking into complete decrepitude.

Anyways, I am currently finding my Excellent rating on FitBit rather unmotivating. Every indication points to the vast majority of my extra pudge being rather benign health-wise, so I'm pretty much down to performance/competition/movement and or personal aesthetic/vanity ("personal", because it also doesn't seem to be impacting my social/sex life to noticeable degree, although I am conscious of the value of being more slender vs. voluptuous as class indicator) as motivation. Sports and fashion are both fairly expensive hobbies, but I may have to become more engaged/invested in one or the other as motivation. Dunno.

OTOH, I suppose I should give the FitBit time to integrate some more data before reaching conclusion that my Cardiac Fitness is already good enough. And, it is also possible that there is some risk that my metrics will take sudden dive in coming years if I don't make more effort. However, the fact that my mother, who is quite lower-body overweight and extremely sedentary, has no heart issues at age 85 would indicate otherwise. I'm not going to be able to rationally scare-myself-skinny with simple longevity risk. I am going to have to come up with some kind of actual athletic fitness (something (else) I want to do with my body before I die) goal(s.)

[7Wannabe5]

I am going to attempt one of the staircase exercises to achieve near maximum heart rate

I did the staircase test/challenge and it worked great for achieving maximum heart rate. You just run up 4 flights of stairs as fast as you can, then jog down, then run back up again as fast as you can. I got up to 197 bpm and stayed there for over a minute. My resting pulse is averaging 71, so my Heart Rate Reserve is 126. Senior Olympics, here I come!

Why is heart rate reserve important?
A study of males found that the risk of sudden cardiac death over a time frame of 30+ years was highest for those with low heart rate reserve during exercise. In that study, males with a heart rate reserve of 17 to 85 beats per minute were at a much higher risk of sudden cardiac death than those with a heart rate reserve higher than 85 beats per minute.

-Cleveland Clinic

Since the standard estimate for maximum heart rate for females is 220 - (.67 X Age), it obviously follows that my biological age is only 34, so highly likely that I will live to be 110. So, I guess I should hold off on the early withdrawal Social Security and go ahead and set my age filter 10 years younger on dating app.

[Henry]

Dick Van Dyke, recovering alcoholic, chain smoker and philanderer, not to mention entertainment icon, is 7 months away from turning 100. He married his second wife at 86, so she, for better or worse, has been sharing a bed with a very old Dick for fifteen years. Dick attributes his longevity to working out to a sweat three times a week.

[7Wannabe5]

That will put him in a pretty elite group. Of the 100,000 centenarians in the U.S. only 15,000 are male. Still, better odds than making it to $100 million , since there are only around 10,000 who've done that in the U.S.

[chenda]

My dad attributes his longevity to the fact he was born in 1938, so the first 15 years of his life was lived under strict war and post-war food rationing which gave him a perfectly balanced nutritious diet.

[Henry]

Interesting. Out of all the explanations I've heard old people give for living so long, "Hitler" was never one of them.

[Henry]

Fidelity Life Insurance called to inform me that my $1M term life insurance policy has expired. I asked if I decided to renew, what would the new premium be. They said 10X. I said what if I'm a year early in an Over 60 ERE Biomarker and Related 5 Year Competition with some woman who can't lift her ass over her head. He asked how much her ass weighs. I said not sure but I'm thinking a lot. He said sorry, that won't help but I might be able to get you 250K. I said I'll think about it. Think what you will, the world tells you where you're at.