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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Um, I get pretty damn excited when I'm sore after a work out. I'm thrilled if I have to take advil to sit on the toilet after a heavy dose of lunges and squats.  The only way I can shape and maintain this body is via muscle soreness.

You don't stop exercise becasue you get old. You get old because you stop exercise.

My mom is 70 and lifts weights. She still looks great in a short dress. I would need a catastrophic event not to exercise. [b]Most middle aged women I see at the gym are wasting their time prancercising[/b].[/quote]

Not if they're happy.

Seriously, I see a lot of women who are either exercise addicts or borderline anorexics.  None of them seem happy on a daily basis.

Sure, once in a while, having to take advil after a hard workout is one thing.  But daily or even weekly having to take advil because you are that sore is not what I view as a healthy, happy life.  If the point of not getting "old" or "out of shape" is to avoid conditions that cause pain and discomfort, it seems to me sort of ridiculous and pointless to try to combat that with a regime/routine that causes just as much pain and discomfort.

I'm a fan of moderation, and that includes exercise.  It's good to be active.  But I don't think it's good to on any kind of regular basis be in so much pain that it's hard to sit on a toilet.

And frankly, I hope when I'm 70, I don't obsess over my body and how I look in a short dress.  That doesn't fit my definition of happiness.  I want to be able to be active and to get around, but I don't think you have to kill yourself at the gym every day to achieve that.  And in fact, there are a lot of fitness nuts who end up with pretty serious chronic conditions when they're older because they over did it too much and too often.[/quote]

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