Our physiology provides us with, ahem, interesting changes as we age, so much so that we may begin to despair of building fitness after 50. Whether you have stayed in shape for many years, returned to exercise after a layoff, or are just getting started, achieving fitness in our middling years is possible. As with…
Now including myself in the ranks of what we politely call an aging athlete, I must admit my surprise at becoming so accepting of the once dreaded bonk. To simply run out of gas during exercise can be irritating. Having such a deficit reach the level of a full-on bonk where the body performance falls…
Do your resolutions about exercise come and go? It happens to the best of us. Reasons for this generally start like “I couldn’t because…” and go off to sound like something that is convincing – to ourselves anyway. What a lot of the dilemma boils down to is that you’ve got to like what you…
Welcome to middle age. No amount of anti-aging remedies or wishful thinking will make my body age less. Slower perhaps but not less. I’m stuck with muscles that are not quite as strong as they once were. I have a nervous system that doesn’t fire quite as quickly. And there is a whole host of other things that my body just doesn’t do quite as well now as before.
We are not going to get back to that ideal body of a certain age. No amount of exercise, eating better, or plastic surgery will bring back that 20 year old Self that we so fondly remember. We can however, improve upon the body we have today.