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Unfortunately I think if you haven’t internalized fitness as a thing you have to maintain all your life, your chances of suddenly become motivated late in life
by xwdv 4y ago
Unfortunately I think if you haven’t internalized fitness as a thing you have to maintain all your life, your chances of suddenly become motivated late in life when your survival depends on fitness related activities are slim. Many people who break a hip simply lose the will to live much more. They don’t really take the rehab seriously, they don’t focus on prevention, they make half hearted efforts. Because they are not used to the pain that comes with exercise, they resist it. They simply shut down slowly until they pass away from whatever cause they become vulnerable to.
- hinkley 4y agoHonestly I suspect that the success of exercise classes in retirement homes speaks more to a lack of other pass times. This makes me feel better and it kills three hours a week.
- anjel 4y agoAnecdotally: after being sedentary for 35-40 years and having both hips replaced in their early 70s, health quality in one of my parents had degraded such by the time they were 85 that I suggested a mild fitness program of walking 3/4 of a mile each day. Exercise regimes get no milder than that. Improvements in day to day energy and balance, A1c, frailty and sleep quality were so markedly improved after just one month that it became the source of motivation. 7 years later, when weather prevents their daily walk, the difference is obvious to them. Advanced aging is learned helplessness. Exercise can make a difference at any age and is the natural offset to that depressive, learned helplessness of aging. As the saying goes: Exercise is its own reward.