I don’t have a history of exercise. The future’s not looking great either

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Opinion: The aim of doing it is not to look better – that ship has sailed – or even to slow down the rate of decline. Like removing the rust on a Leyland P76, I’m doing this to stay roadworthy, writes Margot Saville

, about all the things you do when you’re fighting middle-age. In it, she said she swung between getting into shape and breaking something. “So far, in the breakage department, I have managed the following: I pulled my lower back doing sit-ups; I threw out my right hip on the treadmill, and I entirely destroyed my neck by rolling over in bed”.

The problem is that I don’t have a history with exercise. As teenagers, we used diuretics and Alpine Lights to fit into our jeans; at university I could drop pounds by switching from cask chablis to Smirnoff. It never occurred to us to take up sport. Wouldn’t that make you sweat?

 

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