Before most people start training at Ignite, they say one of three things.

“I don’t have the time.”

“I can’t afford it.”

“It’s probably too late anyway.”

These are not reasons. They are what hesitation sounds like when it has learned to talk.

Worth examining each one.

“I don’t have the time”

Edward Stanley wrote in 1873: “Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.”

Nothing much has changed.

The World Health Organisation recommends at least two and a half hours of moderate exercise per week. That is 21 minutes a day. Harvard research suggests 15 minutes of daily movement can add three years to a life.

Most people have found that time this week for Netflix, for the news, for conversations that did not really need to happen.

The time is there. It is the priority that has not been set yet.

“I can’t afford it”

Walking the Wainuiomata hill is free. Playing cricket at the beach with the grandkids is free. Tidying the garden is free.

Exercise itself does not require money.

If you want coaching at a gym with structure and a coach who knows your name, that is an investment. It is less than a movie night for two, per week.

Compare that to the cost of not investing: medication, specialist appointments, the jobs you can no longer do and have to pay someone else for.

Poor health is expensive.
Prevention is cheap by comparison.

“It’s probably too late anyway”

This is the one that matters most. And it is the most wrong.

The research on strength training in adults over 50 is not subtle about this.

Muscle can be built at 60. At 70. At 80.
Bone density improves with load.
Energy levels recover.

The body responds to sensible progressive training at any age, provided the approach is right.

The question is not whether it is too late. The question is whether you are willing to find out.

Ready to find out?

If any of those three things sound familiar, that is exactly what our Legends programme was built for: ignitefitness.nz/legends-programme

Cheers,

Paul