After Glenn Cotton retired, he suffered a foul fall and a coronary heart scare. However now he is fitter than ever after seeing a strange-looking bike on-line.
“I slipped off the entrance porch and wrecked my shoulder,” he mentioned.
“I all the time preferred using a motorbike. And I did not really feel protected — I’ve misplaced a little bit of steadiness.
“And the two-wheel bike was fairly laborious on the again and laborious on the posture.”
He received sucked down a rabbit gap whereas scrolling on his telephone in the future and found the recumbent tricycle. It permits the rider to be reclined.
“This bike is likely one of the few bikes, or trikes, I can journey that fits my again and makes life snug,” he mentioned.
Mr Cotton’s docs mentioned he wanted to get extra train after his coronary heart scare and a recumbent tricycle made this achievable.
“I attempted jogging, however the issue with that was it gave my again a complete lot of ache,” he mentioned.
“Twenty minutes of jogging and I used to be buggered.
“With this, I can journey for 2 or three hours with none again ache in any respect.”
A number of occasions per week Mr Cotton departs within the cooler early morning and spends hours using throughout Darwin’s path community.
Security first
Mr Cotton is noticed simply by the brilliant flags on the again of his trike and sticks to cycle paths as a lot as he can.
“It is a heck of lots safer than using on the street,” he mentioned.
“The community is enormously good. It is fabulous. There’s just a few lumps and bumps and cracks and tree roots rising up by way of the bitumen.
“Many of the cycle paths are fairly rattling good.”
In the event you do not use it
Council on the Ageing Northern Territory chief government Sue Shearer mentioned preserving match after retirement was important for combating excessive ldl cholesterol and diabetes.
“If you wish to get pleasure from your golden years it truly is crucial that you simply both pound the pavement or [do] aqua aerobics or yoga [or] armchair aerobics,” she mentioned.
“There’s all kinds of issues that you are able to do now.”
Ms Shearer says it is necessary for older folks to take care of their health.
“We’re not fairly as energetic as we must be, by way of completely different causes, most likely by way of our joints and issues like that,” she mentioned.
“In the event you do not use it, you lose it.
“In the event you can preserve match, you possibly can preserve cell proper till your 90s.”
