Each time I go down a step, I put that leg down and I'm assuming that that leg is strong enough to hold me on that one leg while I position the next leg.

Okay, so the weaker I get, the more danger I have doing functional fitness kinds of thing.

Just moving around, being out in public.

Okay.

Walking around the store, you know, encountering something that's falling toward me.

Normally, I just step out of the way.

I can't do that now.

I mean, all these things are going to take me responding in a responsible way and doing the right thing.

But that's going to take the brain.

Interpreting the situation quickly, making a judgment here.

The muscles that have to have to respond, have to contract right now to take care of it.

All right.

Well, we're trying, but the Masters are no Disaster strike.

The key is, what do you do at the first inkling?

Okay.

Well, what I always refer to as is the older folks need a velvety kick in the butt, not assistance, because what's the first thing?

Here's here comes grandma with a bag of groceries and I'm of it.

You know, I'm a big victimizer, too.

Oh, run and grab bag from grandma.

No.

Here, Grandma.

Here's some more stuff.

Put in the bag.

All right.

Make Grandma do some work.

Strengthen those muscles.

But what do we do, Grandma?

No, no, no.

Don't do that.

Don't do that.

Contributing to the problem in a goodwill kind of way.

But it contributes to the problem.

And the advice would be okay.

Husband and wife getting older.

They're having a conversation.

Climbing the stairs is really wearing me out.

Don't.

Don't do it.

I'll do it.

Don't do it as much.

I'll do it.

Okay.

The one that does it.

Like, for example, when.

When my father retired at the age of 65 from the Westinghouse in Pittsburgh, he made a commitment that he was done.

I'm done.

And he meant he sat in that recliner chair with his TV clicker, and my mother could rarely get him to do anything.

He was in that in that chair.

And what I noticed, I'm living in Louisville and I would go back to Pittsburgh to visit.

So I go back.

I hadn't been up there in six months.

I see a noticeable difference in my father.

My father was six foot three, £185 and used to walk everywhere.

I mean, when he was younger, he didn't think anything about walking 20 miles literally fit.

But now I'm seeing a different person.

I'm seeing a person that's actually beginning to struggle to get out of this chair.

Okay.

He is deteriorating because he is doing nothing.

And again, the signal to the body is all this muscle mass is doing nothing.

Why are we supporting it?

All right.

So he began to deteriorate.

But the key is my dad was a great fitness program for my mother because she did everything.

She did everything.

My mom ends up living to be 93.

Okay?

So she did everything.

My dad did nothing.

And I'll never forget the phone call.

My mother called me and said, I can't do it anymore.

Your father.

Your father, just as an example, just can't get out of the chair to go to the bathroom.

That's how weak he is.

So in other words, the call was, he's got to be somewhere.

I can't I can't take care of him.

24 seven anymore.

And he died very shortly after that.

So the moral of the story is be active.

Be active.

You know, when something becomes challenging, that should be a heads up call to you to do more of it, not less of it.

Because if you do more of it, it will be less challenging.

All right.

So, in other words, you are getting weaker and as you're getting weaker as you age.

Okay.

Something becomes challenging.

All right.

So the aging process is taking something away from you.

So you're going to have to compensate a bit by doing more of that.

It's like going to the weight room and lifting weights.

You're going to have to do more of that to build the strength back up so you can cope with that in the way that you use to cope with it.

But human nature says it's challenging.

I would do less of it and it's more challenging.

I'll do even less of it.

And so so it goes both.