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I'll just add that I don't want more of the last years of my life. I'd like more of the middle.

Exactly. And if you consider that every hour you spend purely exercising (gym, treadmill, etc.) in the middle does NOT pay for an extra hour of life on the tail end, it doesn’t seem like the best trade.

(I will say that a morning workout still supercharges your day!)

> (I will say that a morning workout still supercharges your day!)

And you'd be wrong. It does not supercharge my day. Maybe it superchargers your day. Just finished my morning workout and now I feel like I've been drugged and need a nap. I do not feel "supercharged"

Maybe it depends on what you've done and for how long?

Or maybe different people's bodies react differently? I've got many decades of life experience. Not once in my life have I ever felt energized from working out.

Maybe. I suspect it has more to do with baseline activity level and type of workout, but I could be wrong. I only have 1 body. IME, If I do nothing all day, I'll feel sluggish all day. If I take a 30 minute walk or do some squats, pullups or overhead presses, it will get my heart rate up and I'll feel more awake afterwards. I generally don't push myself to the point of exhaustion with exercise.

I will defer to your many decades of life experience.

I just noticed that in my 53 year existence, only by the past 10 years, a morning workout (which I didn't do prior to that) was figuratively and literally eye-opening, not just physically but mentally.

Specifically, it was the Orangetheory workout.

And I regretted not discovering it sooner, and mainly I blame people who didn't emphasize not just the physical but the mental boost

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