220 Pounds on an Ectomorph Body

Years Ago I Weighed 220 Pounds at 6’1”.

Bigger, brawnier, more muscled, but 220 pounds
was a fool’s gambit.

I liked being bigger, stronger, more muscular, and
maybe it was ego driven.

As an ectomorph who weighed 170 pounds in high school,
I was walking around with too much weight, too much
body fat.

A risky fool’s gambit packing that much weight on a body type and heart not designed for it, even with working out.

Over the years, I gradually whittled my body weight down through working out and exercise bike riding. Now at 80, I weigh the same I did in high school.

Sadly, I no longer have the muscle mass I had at 220,
and I’m at an age when what was left is mostly gone, Sarcopenia,
a common fate as one grows older.

But a 170 pound body with far less body fat on a still 6’1” ectomorph
is a better safer weight for an aging heart to handle.

Bob Boyd

Author: BobBoyd

Age 80. Cancer survivor since 3 years ago. Work out 3 times a week. Ride my exercise bike 2 hours a day. Live a solo reclusive life. Retired a year ago from working with the elderly in a nonprofit. Started writing poetry a little over a year ago; most poems I write are fictional but some are not. Spiritual with a permanent spiritual experience. Write poems on many subjects. Always researching for many of my poems and because of my unquenchable thirst for knowledge. After reading and hearing about many near death experiences and death bed visions, I believe death is the ultimate awakening and the relocation of a lifetime. You may believe differently, but you have the right to be wrong -- I'm just messing with you. :-) View all posts by BobBoyd