The families new years reception. A good time. Fun conversations. Easily excepting any challenge in that good mood and before you know it you are committed to joining the “Fifty Fit+” gym class at 0900 on Monday morning! Doesn’t that sound familiar? Well, maybe not, but for me there was no way back and this morning I joined my Godfather, aunt and about 15 other local seniors at their gym session.

A lovely bunch of people. Quite fanatic as well. Not bothered much by plastic knees, hips, sugar disease, bad backs… and so on… Just still going strong! All smiles, good humor, coffee and sauna after the workout, so hardly any complains. Nothing but respect for the elderly! :-)

The workout turned out to be much tougher then I expected it to be. After a joint warm-up with the a little “course” through 9 different exercises. Two minutes each. Little spinning. Some lifting with little weights for arms, shoulders and back. Some floor exercises for stomach, back and legs. And one with running. I do have some sort of regular exercise on the squash court or the gym, but never ever do I lay down on one side and have to move my leg up and down in the air for 2 minutes… DAMN!! That is though!!!

Any sign of struggle on my side was immediately followed by laughter and comments from the seniors… which made me smile and comment back that they should not laugh, because they simply had much more years of experience with this! ;-) But proud they were, when we sat down for coffee afterwards and I had to tell them the workout was much tougher then I expected.

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