How fast does fitness fade?

[limewave]

Wow- I find that impossible to believe! You mean someone in fabulous fitness shape would be completely out of shape in 3 weeks? I refuse to believe it.

I'm just repeating what I read in some fitness magazine or in the health section of some national news. It's not my theory . . . I just remember this one statistic so vividly because I read it about a week before I had my bilateral bunionectomy and was looking at 3 weeks of bed rest followed by 3 months of recovery. I was scared.

[Bklynmom]

I think age has to be a big factor. In the past year I have riden more than I have ever before in my life, I'm 48.

I'm still not sure if I am as fit as I was in my 30's with a few months of serious exercise.

Drives me totally nuts!