I had almost the opposite experience.

I used to do a lot of community folk dance (the median age was at least 70), and I dated a guy who was somewhat cocky about inviting me to his kickboxing class. I was down, but a little concerned about embarrassing myself, especially because it was at a very intimidating boxing gym.

I didn’t even break a sweat until 20 minutes in. It turns out, jumping up and down in place for ninety minutes several times a week is really good conditioning for basically any cardio.

I got super into biking recently, having gotten back on my bike at the beginning of last season, starting out struggling to make it the quarter mile around the block (about half of which is uphill of course) and ended my first season with an 8 mile record. This season I'm already up to 12 miles as my furthest ride without a break (just yesterday I did 10 miles which included climbing over 250 feet of elevation)

Anyways point is, I decided last second to do a 5k on the 4 of July and upon returning home I told my neighbor who was outside about it. And he's fucking ripped with a 6 pack and he gave an awkward smile and said "I don't think I could even finish that" and it was really crazy reminder of how much some folks focus on strength and entirely ignore cardio

Everytime I have to lift something heavy I get the opposite of this. Like some six five guys will say it's super heavy meanwhile I am five five and just threw a fucking 75 lbs piece of furniture over my shoulder like it was a particularly large cat. I don't know if it's my height, muscle density, or just the autism but it's rather amusing watching folks universally balk at the situation.

Lmao gospel tshirts to fool people

Fun fact - retired Americans are the second most active and consistent gym goers among all age groups, behind early 20s

What is an L ? or a Y ?

Well, hopefully he made some new friends during the endeavor too. ^~^

EDIT: Too used to Discord markdown, where ^ doesn't have semantic value.

I feel this. There's a spin class at my local gym populated almost entirely of older women. Aside from the seat leaving me feeling like I got pegged by the end, I absolutely could not keep up with these ladies.