Help an old climber

I just figured out that I’m 63 years old.

I’m too fat to climb and too scared to quit.

Advise...

Never too late to get in on the best thread(s) in MP history:

https://www.mountainproject.com/forum/topic/116615342/new-and-experienced-climbers-over-50-6

Learn to aid climb. Its like prosthetic free climbing so you've got a leg up on us.

Malcolm Daly wrote: I just figured out that I’m 63 years old.

I’m too fat to climb and too scared to quit.

Advise...

Lose some weight and harden the F up?

(can't believe I just told Malcolm fuckin' Daly to harden up. I've seen his toe in a jar.)

Liposuction?

knitting??

Malcolm Daly wrote: I just figured out that I’m 63 years old.

I’m too fat to climb and too scared to quit.

Advise...

Just move up to Leadville 10,000ft to naturally burn more calories.

Put words to action

climb slabs

63 aint old

You could cure yourself of this unhealthy addiction. Try an extreme treatment like heading into some remote place like the Alaska Range, taking a hard fall and sustaining major injuries, spending a couple of nights alone and immobile in sub-zero weather....oh, wait...

Do meth.  You'll lose weight, have energy and enjoy a meticulously clean house.  

I quit drinking beer (sucks) and lost about 50 pounds in a year. I climb way harder now....just sayin.

Finding a partner my age still sucks

Malcolm, you can out-climb most people half your age.  Anytime you want to climb, get a hold of me and we'll get out or in.

I'm right behind you Malcolm (figure of speech not literally speaking)! This thread is amusing.

Yup, I get it, Malcolm.... Been 63 for 3 months now.  Things just ain't the same no mo'.  But I'll never quit what I love so much till I'm forced to for some reason.  Just keep down-bumping the grades more and more (why does 10a feel like 11a used to???? Do holds keep breaking off?).    Now my challenges become head control rather than number crunching.

FORCE a change in unproductive habits and work hard on what you really want to do...not necessarily climbing. 

Did I tell you my new rule?

Short approaches to easy climbs.

Works for me. 

Been  doin' those short approaches to easy climbs for way too long now.... Can't seem to hardly do otherwise.  But it keeps us on the rock!

Sean Post wrote: Never too late to get in on the best thread(s) in MP history:

https://www.mountainproject.com/forum/topic/116615342/new-and-experienced-climbers-over-50-6

We need a thread for over 60. But I don't what we could say that hasn't already been beaten to death in the >50 thread.