So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The thing about getting older is the injuries. You just get injured more often. You take time off, you come back, you get injured again and you never get in shape.
As you get older, your body doesn't hold up as much.
The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.
Old age is a wonderful time of life. At least, that's what everyone tells you. But let me tell you: it is not true. What's true is that your hips, knees and ankles gradually give up on you - everything is quite dreadful, really. And it was a terrible thing to have told us because we believed it.
As you get older, you do just get tired.
No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.
As you get older, you either become proactive about staying in shape and taking care of yourself, or, you know, time has its effect on you.
In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living.
Fortunately, I'm very healthy, and my body is still intact. It hasn't aged very much, I feel like a very young 56. I exercise regularly, and when I do, I always learn new things about my body.
Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.