Personally, I found myself getting injured easier and easier every year growing “older” (I’m still only on my 30s). Whether it was neck pains from working on the desk or leg injuries from falling on BMX or a mountain bike.
It’s been a year now I’ve been training multiple times a week in gym, sessions with PT, group trainings and solo, and kinda starting to enjoy it - looking forward for the next training session even if it’s just 2 days apart.
I don’t care about physique. I was in race shape, crits, and fought 2 SUVs 11 years ago…at the same time. They were both total losses, but the broken neck and back sucked. I fall apart if I quit; the pain is much worse on the bad days, and I can’t sleep at all. That is all that motivates me any more. I need to be around 190 lbs to be pretty, but I keep it around 220. It is far better than the 350 lbs I was in 2009, so there is that. I never could stick with the gym thing. Road bikes are my superpower. That freedom beckons me.