Everyone i have ever met loves the feeling exercise gives them WHILST they are doing it and in the swing of it.
If you stop abruptly for one reason or another, you stop moving so much and your energy decreases over time. Then it is difficult to remember how good you actually felt when you got fit, how good your joints felt, how the lack of pain had a huge positive impact on your life.
Most people would treat their piano better than their bodies. They would get someone in to tune the piano regularly, and make sure it was still playing a true tune.
The problem with not training and “tuning” our own bodies is that the more we avoid it, the more out of tune our bodies go. So does our mind and our expectations of what we can do, and what we used do. When we forget how good we can be, then that is dangerous as we tend to tread water and every day we feel like we are walking in quicksand.
There is nothing worse than someone reminiscing of what they “once” used to do or were capable of. Life doesn’t end in your 30’s, 40’s or 50’s, you should have discovered by now that great things are possible if you stay “in the swing” of training, and make it to the gym 3 times a week.
Don’t put off what you are really capable of, live “in the now”, talk of “things to come in your life” and stop looking back fondly, your best years ARE ahead, but only you can set yourself free to enjoy them, and it all starts with moving more.
