Being able to bend down and tie your laces (instead of getting slip-on shoes because those “times are in the past”, being able to lift your child/grandchild into the air, being able to walk up a hill to see the view, being strong enough to lift your travel case into the overhead container on a planer, being able to go out for a day trip and being able to breathe properly and last the entire day-ARE ALL examples of the stuff you SHOULD be able to do, but for many these things are not “viable” any more for so many as they stop moving so much and get used to spending most of their life sitting down.
This didn’t happen by accident, like diabetes, blood pressure, heart disease-all usually happen over decades, weight gain/lack of flexibility/strength decreases/lack of endurance/lack of bone density/lung capacity don’t happen overnight either, it happens slowly but for these to get to the stage you can’t do those simple tasks, you will have had to be inactive/eaten too much of the wrong stuff for a long time.
And it’s the simply tasks that matter.
Imagine your child/grandchild’s face when you can lift them up again, can you imagine saying YES to day trips again instead of admitting you can’t last the pace anymore, admitting you can touch your toes again, and the satisfaction of seeing a different view most days with your own effort from your OWN body.
For all these tasks there’s a gym exercise to replicate it and keep making it easier, there’s many gym exercises to make your core strong enough, to repair and strengthen your back/hip pain and weakness and turn them into a powerful force again that transforms your life.
You are either improving in life or starting to fall apart (so slowly you don’t even notice at first).
Once exercise becomes a “I have no time to do it” excuse, think of the things you are really missing out on in life, and how it will quickly snowball which soon enough puts you into a deep hole that’s becomes very difficult to get out of
Make your life better by doing the exercises that will make you VERY capable and strong DEEP into old age, but it has to start NOW.
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Think HEALTH-SPAN (quality of life) and not just life-span.
Pharmaceutical Drugs will keep you alive longer but exercise and eating right will help you live even longer and live so much BETTER, out of pain and being able to do pretty much what you are doing right now right up until the day you die or as close as you possibly can, that’s the difference exercising to a good standard regularly will give you.
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