Originally Posted by
Rje58
I agree that quality of life is more important than quantity. I intend to go out riding and hiking, dancing around and whooping it up and living life, not sitting on a couch or nursing my latest aches and pains.
I'm 59, and most days I have some aches and pains. Sometimes my wife says "...
Sounds like, going to bed with all the intention in the world about going for a ride but the next day, waking up having a different attitude... if so, something so simple may be so effective it'll become a new daily routine...
… conclude the usual shower activities with a cool-down-- there's a lot of research about how effective it is to health and wellbeing (written about here) and, it's easy because, it's not the cold so much as it is the
change from hot to cold. So, it doesn't have to be an icy-cold shower to effect a positive new outlook on the day.
If interested, I'll fetch the link.