In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches, we settle down, literally and figuratively.
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Experiences from our youth shape what we do later in life.
A huge part of youth is how you behave: I'm always looking for fun and anything that makes me feel alive - that in itself keeps me feeling young.
Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it's free to everyone.
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
I grew up in a sport that didn't allow you to grow up. There was always the threat of younger competition. So you had to maintain the image of youth.
There is this idea that appealing to youth is the only way forward. But that is no longer the case. Youth is not everything. Now we have all the baby-boomers in their 60s, like me, who are actively engaged in life - we're not retiring, we're not just being put out to grass once we hit 60.
So being present becomes more and more the exercise the older you get.
When I was growing up, I did not exercise at all. I was raised in the French Quarter in New Orleans. If I saw someone running, I would call the police because I thought they stole something on Royal Street.
What I found is that just in the lifestyle today, people have fewer and fewer opportunities to get exercise.
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