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What if I'm too old to start working out? Should I try nonetheless? Who's question was this one?

The context of a question like this is curious. It sounds as if its an acknowledgment that you should be working out but that possibly it will be bad for them because of whatever you associate with advanced years. Hopefully this question is coming from someone in their 70s but I've heard it from folks in their 40's.

Friends, Jack Lalanne is 95. He still does 2 hour workouts everyday. I'm sure there are others who aren't as well known who do similar. I am 61 and wouldn't think of missing a day.

How can you possibly think you are too old to start? But that's not meant to be a rhetorical question. Rather its a serious query which deserves a serious answer.

I think you fear doing so because of what so many people believe about a life that is not all about R&R. This is the big thing here in the US. We think that taking it easy is what its all about both as a celebration for being such a wealthy nation and as a way to get us all to 85, Further we're supposed to be glad of that because the number used to 65 not too long ago.

My own 54 year old MD is leery over working out, so I am sympathetic with your concerns. Of course he is not in very good shape even if his blood pressure, pulse and cholesterol levels are all as good as I expect that they are. My question to you is do you want to be like him? And do you think he is justified in being as anti athletic when I look like a wedge and have test results that are just as good ?

If so, stay away from the gym and keep telling all of your friends relatives and neighbors that you're just being careful with your life. They'll believe you and then you'll feel justified in doing nothing very energetic with your life. You then ought to be quite well off until you stumble onto Lalanne's website or possibly take to heart Jane Fonda who is in her seventies?

Now I ask you do you REALLY think you're too old to be working out