Role Models

It doesn't really matter when you start exercising, as long as you start.  I was 41 years old before I really did any kind of regular exercise, and now I hardly go a day without doing at least something.  My husband has always exercised, Becky has always exercised, so they had a big head start on me.  I will never be able to catch up.  But that doesn't mean I can't try!  You always regret not doing something sooner, once you start, but you just have to keep in mind that you did start.

Here is a great example of someone who waited a long time to get started.  My mom, who will be 79 in a few weeks, just started regularly exercising this year.  You read that right.  She has never weighed over 110 pounds in her life, even when pregnant, but that was to do with how much she ate, not how much she worked out.  Then at the beginning of this year her doctor told her she needed to start doing some cardio to improve her lung function.  I never really thought that would happen, but lo and behold, three days a week she goes to her exercise class.  She walks on the treadmill, rides the bike, and lifts a few hand weights.  She confided one day that she thought the 3-pound weights were getting a little too easy and she thought she might try moving up to 4!  My mom, the weight-lifter.

So it's never too late!  Even if you think you are too old or too out of shape to ever be able to do anything, that is just not true.  Start small and work your way up.