One of my YouTube fitness brothers recently shared a profound statement causing me to take a pause and reflect on it. He said, “I’ll never make age an excuse, but it definitely has an effect.” He made this statement in the context of a workout he just completed where he didn’t feel as strong as he would have liked.
Haven’t we all had days like this? For sure if we’re among the coveted group of gracefully aging fitness fellows who are still in the game. I have my fair share; it goes with the turf of being above ground and still making decent attempts to show up and subject ourselves to our fitness training grind.
Another YouTube fitness brother, a younger one, said it best, “If it’s easy, everyone would do it.” Pick your favorite challenging fitness exercise to test the truth of this prophetic statement. Burpees, for sure! A double kettlebell complex of, say, five exercises performed for five reps each for five rounds, absolutely! Hill sprints or slam ball slams, certainly! The list goes on for those of us who thrive on challenging ourselves.
But we don’t have to do it. We could resign our fitness training to taking a comfortably paced 30-minute walk or swing some light pink dumbbells up and down following some “great” workout a “fitness influencer” said we should do.
Pierini Fitness isn’t ready yet to sign up for this half-baked fitness training pace but maybe one day I’ll have no choice but to do so. When will that be? When I’m age 75, or when I’m age 80? Or maybe sooner than I expected. One never knows and we should always be prepared for this eventuality.
But until that day comes, I’ll continue with my pedal to the metal training, challenging myself in ways that make me grunt and gasp for air, and not letting my proclivity towards laziness disguise itself as aging.
Pax Domini sit semper vobiscum