Exercise is amazing from the inside out. I feel so alive and have more energy.
But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.
You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure what makes it bigger? It's the fat!
There is no age height or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive most start young. But I practice with many adult competitors.
Brain power improves by brain use just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population from school days to late middle age now have very complicated lives indeed.
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact no matter how suspect is superior to any imaginative exercise no matter how true.
To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body the mind and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise study and love.
Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.