Exercise is a fountain of youth

It is amazing to watch people evolve who begin and stick with an exercise program.

The past seven weeks or so I have been part of F3Hartsville, which is part of F3Nation -- a men's group focused on Fitness-Fellowship-Faith. The group has expanded quickly with recruits believing it is now time for them to get "back into shape." It has been really interesting watching how quickly these younger guys have made significant differences in simple things like the bounce in their step, the energy in their morning greeting and the number of 'merkins' (F3 jargon for pushups) they are not able to do. In some of the first workouts many of them had trouble putting together ten pushups in a row -- now several of them are pushing out a couple of hundred or more in a 45-minute workout.

Since I began this blog about working out after 60 I have been a big believer in the fountain of youth properties of exercise. Now, watching significantly young guys get relatively younger each week as they continue to push it is even more obvious that movement (sometimes serious movement) can make major differences in how we attack life.

So, the message is that it really does not matter how old you are -- you should be taking advantage of the fountain of youth called Exercise -- because it works.

For those in an older category, this short blog on Go4Life talks about a possible connection between helping keep the brain young and exercise. There are lots of reasons to exercise but I maintain the hardest exercise of all is taking that first step out the door to the Y - to the trail - to the neighborhood walk. Quit waiting on yourself and GO NOW!