I'll say one thing for sure, and that is that lifting weights is a habit I will never lose. I will never be the biggest guy in the gym, but I have been lifting consistently now for almost twenty years. There is really a zero chance I will ever stop.
Clarence Bass has been a huge role model for me in this respect. The guy is 70 and is still in phenomenal shape. And I would bet my house that he will never stop lifting either.
In my mind, there's no reason to ever stop working out. If you quit subjecting your body to stress, it will only decay more rapidly. Many of the traditional conceptions about physical aging are false. You can look at the generation of bodybuilders from the 1960s and find that many of them are still active and still in good shape. Physical aging can be greatly slowed by the best medicine available: exercise.
