"Im gonna be forever young; do you wanna be forever young?" 

What do you mean when you say, "it is to hard to have exercise in your daily routine and that you just cannot seem to find the time?"  I'm thinking that is not "it" at all; it is really that you lost your mojo; your zest for life.  You have fallen into the ditch of the mass march of drone thinking.  Drone thinking is drudging through life with constant thoughts of all the life obstacles that are thrown in front of us.  We think about how we have to make a living, how we want a better job, how we have to take care of our family, how we have to make more money, how we have to find someone to love and how we have to GET OLD. 

However, do we have to get old or are we just allowing ourselves to get old?  What does it take to get old?  After the age of 20, our muscle mass quits growing IF you do not build it.  After the age of 20, your muscle mass will begin to dimish IF you do not maintain it.  People lose 30% of their muscle strength between the ages of 50 - 70 years.  Numerous studies show by age 50, people lose 1.5 to 2% of their muscle mass and quality a year.  Muscle mass breaking down due to lack of activity is called sarcopenia.  Most people accept this as "usual aging."  However, it is no more usual than your car breaking down when it is not maintained and ignored.

It is a drag that most people do less and less as they age and therefore lose the ability to do things that once came easily; like briskly walking up a flight of stairs.  In the coming decades, the importance of maintaining the ability to work and to make a good living will increase, as will the need for independence in everyday life and leisure activities.  The increase in the retirement age to 67 years from 2012 means that one in three adults of working age will be older than 50 by 2020.  Currently, the proportion of elderly persons who practice strength (resistance) training is about 10 - 15%.

Ok, so do you feel like I am picking on you; the 35 and up age?  I am, so I will back off for a minute.  I will swtich to the childhood obesity epidemic with just a thought.  If we, as parents, are acting as drones of no exercise, no fitness, no evergy, no spunk then how are our children going to survive the future?  Are we going to make some positive health changes, like showing our children that there is more to eating than fried nuggets and macaroni and cheese off the "children's menu?"

When i began my lifestyle change of fitness and bodybuilding at 23 years of age, I wanted it really bad so I often trained twice a day.  Which is saying that it was not any easier at that age to change my body around.  I knew to make a difference in how I looked and felt, I had to put in the extra effort.  Often, I would go back to the gym at 9 - 10 pm to get what I needed to get done to reach my goals.  We seem to forget how when we were a kid and or young adult, how hard we worked when we really wanted to make the team or be better at the position we loved in sport. 

Can we feel awesome at different ages? Yes.  Can we be fit at different ages? Yes.  Are we going to have to put the extra effort in, like when we were a kid?  Yes.  Did you know that people over the age of 90 can increase their muscle mass by 30% with strength training three times a week?  Awesome. 

In strength,

Dangerous Donna