It’s been a while since my brother has been active.
His metabolism has been getting slower over the years, and his energy has been decreasing.
He finds being still and sedentary, natural. He didn’t always want to be that way, it snuck up on him over the years. He would just come home after a day of work and sit on the couch. Eventually it just went into a downward spiral. My brother eventually admitted that he needed help and reached out to his neighbor, who was a personal fitness trainer at a gym not too far from where they lived. My brother didn’t have a gym membership, and had not done any real exercises in a few years. It was intimidating for him to reach out in the first place. His neighbor invited him to come to the gym the day after he reached out and provided him with a free personal fitness class. His neighbor said she was starting him off with the basic, remedial fitness class, the one she usually gave to the new comers. My brother didn’t take any offense because of how out of shape he was. He said it was the appropriate fitness class for where he was, physically. It was more exercise than he had expected to experience that day. His neighbor knew he needed help, so he offered to get him a free trial gym membership.