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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Basically I want to know how far hard work can get me and what is inevitable with age. [/quote]

Hard work and a lifetime of fitness will get you far, but what is inevitable is that you will have to accept changes - to your body, your looks, your performance. It is also inevitable that you will be more injury prone eventually and will have to adapt your workouts and expectations. What is also inevitable is that things will happen to your body that your lifestyle and fitness level will not be able to control. Eventually your skin will get saggier and flabbier even if you maintain weight and muscle tone, especially if you have kids and then again after menopause. Your joints will have wear and tear, so you will have to be smarter about how you maintain your fitness level. You may end up with osteopenia or osteoporosis even if you lift weights. You may develop high blood pressure unrelated to lifestyle factors by a certain age.

These are all things that I've seen or experienced in either myself or others who have been fit, lifelong exercisers. In my experience, however, the biggest changes come in your forties. Aside from some luck-of-the-draw pregnancy and child bearing effects, you can probably maintain your level through most of your thirties.

I think best way to maintain fitness as you age is to workout smarter - more HIIT and low impact work, more careful weight training, greater variety of workouts, incorporating things like yoga/pilates/barre in which there is strong emphasis on good form and control, instead of long sessions of highly repetitive explosive exercises.[/quote]

This.  My fitness level is probably the same.  I work out hard 6 days a week.  I am 52 and while I certainly do not look like I did when I was 30, I still look very fit.  I am much more injury prone and spend a lot more time stretching, etc.  I believe that part of the reason my body looks good is that I have been consistently working out for more than 25 years.  I do have cellulite.  I didn't think that would be possible, but it happened.  I also had a tummy tuck b/c after 2 kids, I was thin, but had a sagging belly with loose skin.  No amount of working out was making the skin shrink.  I used to wonder how women gained so much weight in their 50s.  Now I know.  I am killing myself to stay fit and thin.  If you take your eye off the ball for a second, it will creep up![/quote]

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