My wife and I fitness Journey. 50 years plus

tracyrandrews

it’s so much harder to get back into shape. We are now 17 months into this journey. Seems to be much more difficult for me, since I have cervical spine issues. But we push on.

AnnPT77

You both look great. Keep going for it. I think you can surprise yourself with how sensibly-planned fitness improvements continue to add up to big results.

I started getting routinely active in my late 40s/early 50s after cancer treatment. I'd been pretty much an inert desk-job, sedentary couch lump for a couple of decades before that, and cancer/treatment had left me even more physically depleted. Starting with a small improvement, and gradually building from there, I was competing as an athlete a couple or three years later, and not always unsuccessfully, either. It wasn't arduous, didn't take life-consuming amounts of intense daily exercise, just a manageable challenge sustained over a long time period.

I admit, I was kind of dumb after that: Even though a lot of my objective fitness metrics were good, I stayed class 1 obese for another dozen years. At 59-60, I lost around 50 pounds. That was another big quality of life improvement, on top of staying reasonably fit.

Now 69, still active, still at a healthy weight . . . if you'd told 45 y/o me what 69 y/o me's life would be like, she would've laughed uproariously and refused to believe you. (At my first race, one of my longtime friends came up to me after and said "Annpt77 a jock? Who would've thought?!?" Not me, that's for sure. 😉)

You both can take this a long way. Patience and persistence are great tools to put in the toolkit, and at 17 months in, looking as happy and healthy as you both do, I'd bet you've used those. The rewards can be amazing.

Best wishes to you both!