>be me
>20 year old
>talking to a friend of mine on Discord who's 31
>I tell him about a quote I read on the Wikipedia page for aging
>"A fit 40 year old may outperform a sedentary 20 year old"
>I ask him if that's true because I think it sounds like bullshit
>he thinks that it's true, and that a physically active 40 year old will almost certainly be in better shape than a couch potato 20 year old
>he said "You probably won't have any chronic diseases or anything when you're young, but no matter what your age, you'll be puny and run out of breath easily if you're sedentary. Youth means nothing if you just sit on your ass all day every day."
Is he right? Big if true.
>20 year old
>talking to a friend of mine on Discord who's 31
>I tell him about a quote I read on the Wikipedia page for aging
>"A fit 40 year old may outperform a sedentary 20 year old"
>I ask him if that's true because I think it sounds like bullshit
>he thinks that it's true, and that a physically active 40 year old will almost certainly be in better shape than a couch potato 20 year old
>he said "You probably won't have any chronic diseases or anything when you're young, but no matter what your age, you'll be puny and run out of breath easily if you're sedentary. Youth means nothing if you just sit on your ass all day every day."
Is he right? Big if true.
