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[quote=Anonymous]   I'm in my early 50s and I love exercise for well-being, stress management and vanity reasons. My summer work schedule is more manageable and I don't have to help the kids with homework so I have even more time for a variety of exercise and I enjoy it and feel so young...until an hour or 2 later. I am not in pain (because I have learned my middle age limits) and I'm not out of shape because I exercise all year, but I guess I'm stiff. To be honest I feel young inside, but I walk the way my parents did when they were declining into dementia/Alzheimers for the rest of the evening and then the next morning I have a little more spring in my step again. I feel like my gait changes as my body recovers and I'm all stiff. A few hours prior I might have been say running on a treadmill or playing pickball and then here I am with a slow stiff gait wondering why my body isn't moving faster. My doctor said it's probably some mild osteoarthritis. Anyone else feel like exercise invigorates and makes you feel young while doing it and then suddenly you are walking like you are 85 years old?[/quote]

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