Welcome to your forties, where you can step out of a van slightly awkwardly and hobble yourself for weeks. #plantarfasciitis #supersucks

— MadLori (@madlori) July 17, 2019

Lift weights and absent chronic illness of some kind, you won’t have this problem. No one has to age poorly — it’s a choice, like most things people see as inevitable and unalterable. I chose to avoid the “inevitable” decline, and I’m now about as limber and getting back to being as strong again as I was in my early 20s. (And I was very strong in my early 20s.)

Lift weights, eat decent food, walk a bit. It’s amazing the difference it makes if you keep it up.