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Fitness in Your Fifties (Your Forties Too): Resolve to Exercise Regularly
Another year, another year older! Welcome to 2007! Will this be the year you commit to exercising three times a week, or to keeping a food journal to get a handle on what you eat? Maybe you'll sign up for your first race, 5K, half marathon, triathlon, or marathon; or find out when the next master athletes' ''games'' are in your neck of the woods and begin training for an event. Perhaps you'll decide to take a new class like spinning, Pilates, water aerobics or Tai Chi; or to check out the sales and buy a piece of exercise equipment for your home to make working out more convenient. 2007 might even be the year you just get up off your couch and learn to swing dance or to rollerblade, or join an adult sports league!
Fitness in Your Fifties (Your Forties Too): Mentoring and Finding Inspiration in Younger Athletes
Most of the time, people look to someone older than themselves to be their mentors, their coaches and their inspiration. When you are in your fifties, you may be just that to someone else. But I am here to tell you that in the world of staying fit and healthy, we can learn from and be challenged by people younger than ourselves. On one hand, I know that my mother, who is nearing eighty and comes from a generation that didn't exercise, looks to me for that ''push'' to workout. After more than 10 years of begging her to give water aerobics a try, she finally did it and she's HOOKED! On the flip side, my daughter is the one who keeps inspiring me to take on new challenges.
Fitness in Your Fifties (Your Forties Too): Haven't Had Any Health Problems Up Until Now?
Each month, I've presented the benefits of exercise and an active lifestyle. I've explained all the wonderful things that you will experience and enjoy by staying fit as you get older. So if you're reading this and you're still sitting around trying to decide if it's worth all the trouble to start exercising; or if you believe that you haven't had any health problems up until now, so why bother—this article is for you.
Fitness in Your Fifties (Your Forties Too): Jumpstart Your Workout After a Lazy Summer
I have always believed that regular exercise is the easiest habit to give up and one of the hardest to start. Even if you understand the benefits of working out on a regular basis, feel and look better when you do, it's very easy to make excuses for why you don't.
Fitness in Your Fifties (Your Forties Too): Dealing with Menopausal Weight Gain
As women enter menopause, their hormonal balance begins to change and with that their bodies. I will be sharing some reasons why things change and some tips to help create a balance as we hit middle age. I do say "we" as I am facing these challenges, just like every other woman who has crossed into her fifties.
Fitness in Your Fifties (Your Forties Too): Avoiding Injury After 50
The Baby Boomers are working hard at trying to outrun Father Time. Maintaining an active lifestyle will make a huge difference in slowing down the clock.
Fitness in Your Fifties (Your Forties Too): How to Fuel Your Body as You Age
So you've made the decision to add exercise to your lifestyle, or to continue to exercise, as you've maybe done for years. That's a very healthy choice and you will reap the benefits from this decision. Benefits like reduced blood pressure, lowered cholesterol, improved immune system and better mental health, the list can go on and on. Exercise is very important for us as we get older. But physical activity is just part of the equation for good health.
Fitness in Your Fifties (Your Forties Too): Increase Your Life Expectancy
About ten years ago, the newspaper columnist, Erma Bombeck, wrote a column on how high profile women in their forties were ''ruining it'' for the average woman. Erma said that it used to be when a woman hit forty she could stop wearing her girdle, let herself go gray and not worry about it. At that time well-known actresses w
Strength Training for Seniors
There’s an old joke that says growing old is simply a matter of mind over matter…if you don’t mind…it doesn’t matter. The reality of growing older is that it should matter. That doesn’t mean worrying about the aging process, but rather being proactive and taking steps to slow that process down. Things just naturally happen to the body as we live longer, but there are things each of us can do to make it a more graceful decline, and in some instances actually “turn back the clock.”
Senior Fitness at the Center
If you were to walk into a Senior Center, what do you think you would see? A bunch of feeble gray-haired people moving with the help of canes, walkers and wheelchairs gathering for a game of shuffle board? Walk into the Charlotte Mecklenburg Senior Center on Tyvola Road and you will find people in their 60's, 70's and 80's using treadmills and recumbent bikes. They are lifting weights and using stability balls. In short, they are exercising because they know that exercise will keep them independent, reduce or eliminate the need for some of their medications and it makes them feel good.
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