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“Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.” - Muhammad Ali
“My muscles hurt, I must be because I am old ”
“I’m too old for doing ….” insert an activity
“I’m too old to start exercising now”
“It’s because I am getting old, that I can’t lose fat!”
Take your pick, I have heard them all, usually from people young enough to know better.
I was talking to some of my clients today over lunch, the lunch was a celebratory meal after completing a five kilometer race in the wet, slushy horrible weather we are experiencing here in Luxembourg this weekend. A couple of these “girls” are in the most polite way the wrong end of 30 something, but each of them has found that health and fitness doesn’t stop at age thirty.
They are planning to take part in a Triathlon next summer, they are talking about all the training they will be doing over the next few months, planning which preparation events they are going to do, including the relay ING marathon in May.
The thing is, just a few short months ago they were asking me if coming to do ForestFit was going to be too hard for them. Now with massively elevated confidence levels and a new understanding of what their body is capable of. Their goals are now much higher.
Some of my best clients have been the wrong side of fifty years. They still have managed to lose significant amounts of body fat. One of them has claimed they feel fitter and healthier at age fifty something, than they did at thirty something!
… Muhammad Ali’s quote is a startlingly coherent from a guy who did most of his talking with a brutal “right”. But it is a real observation of what is the difference between those that achieve massive results “despite” their age and those that give up as soon as they reach a certain age.
How old do you think you are??
