Exercise!
Well, when your reputation is staked on being able to find the good and learning from everything, you can't just start becoming a victim of either your aging body or any beliefs about what aging means. So my adventure here on Planet Earth at age 70 is like this and this is what I'm learning:
An aging body will sure teach you to take care of your body. The results of not doing it can be felt almost immediately. I pretty much got through my life doing a very minimum of exercise still looking OK and being able to move rather automatically.
Can't get away with that any more. It doesn't matter whether I have issues and want to take my time getting over this, it will not cooperate. If I don't exercise frequently - like daily - I feel not great in my body and my balance and strength dwindles perceptibly even though I eat very, very healthy and have done so for years.
OK. I WILL LOVE MYSELF ENOUGH TO TAKE COMPLETE CARE OF MY BODY. NO EXCUSES!
I appreciate you taking the time to encourage exercise - especially for folks over 50! It is crucial that we continue to move and stretch as we age! I remeber back in college having a PE coach who was 60 at the time I took his classes. He was agile, flexible, strong and full of energy - he was amazing! He could complete gymnastics moves that most of the 20 somethings at that time could not do! I vowed right then and there to be like him as I aged! Staying young in body is doable if we exercise regularly! Thanks for your post!
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