Ben by Daniel Shelton for March 17, 2023

Indeed—as you get older you must replace paid work with working out or you will be like my mother-in-law who just entered a nursing facility bedridden from muscles not being as strong as they could be.

Yesterday was my 5 year anniversary of retirement – yay! It’s GREAT!!!

@baraktorvan- I agree. That’s why at 64, I’m in better shape than many adults half my age. That’s because I go to the gym twice a week, do martial arts, and I don’t eat any junk food or eat any of that fast food from McDonald’s, Wendy’s, BK, or the Chinese lunch food specials. But I have to chill because I got a hernia from too much leg work.

Perhaps if you wore a jacket and tie, she might give you a pass. But not likely. The house slippers, on your feet, showed your hand.

My hubby thinks that retirement means “to get tired all over again”. It’s been over 10 years and he STILL gets up at 5:30. If he accidentally sleeps until 6, he thinks the world will come to an end.

I, on the other hand, am not a morning person.

Run, run, run. You have to keep up with your wife.

A neighbor yells, “Atta boy Ben.”

Take Max out for long walks. : )

Some people need to work off that retirement fat.

I’m looking forward to retirement as a time when I’ll have more time free to spend running! And biking! And hiking! And in the meantime I’m keeping myself in shape so as not to retain the ability to continue to do those things for as long as possible!

I can’t run, never really could. But I can walk for miles. And I cheat on my bicycle with an electric motor for when I get tired or we have a strong headwind.

I’ve been retired for 15yrs and been consistently too busy to waste time on pointless exercise.

I was forced into retirement in 2016. Looking back, it was a complete surprise but a welcomed one.