🎉 Happy National Senior Health & Fitness Day! 🎉
Staying healthy and physically fit is important always but especially as we age. In 2016, I got my Functional Aging Specialist Certificate. The first chapter of the text for that course scared me to death! It talked about how fast you lost your endurance and then your strength as you age. I thought, “That is not going to be me!” 🤗
Lao Tzu said, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” This is GREAT advice! If you’re not currently training, you don’t need to start out running 5 miles a day or lifting weights for an hour a day. You might be able to do it but will you continue doing it? Probably not because you will be so sore you won’t be able to move. 🤕
Find something you like to do! I love to dance. Dance cardio is currently part of my workout every day because it makes me happy. Along with that, though, I also do bodyweight exercise and bounce on a rebounder. 💃
People think their metabolism slows down as they age but what really happens is that we start losing muscle around age 35. So by the time we are in our 60’s we have less metabolically active muscle and, therefore, can gain wait easily. You have to work on maintaining (or growing!) muscle. My favorites are swinging a kettlebell and I adore powerlifting because I’m super competitive and I like to see just how much I can lift. But you can do bodyweight exercises which can be a complete workout without a gym. 🏋🏼♀️
Don’t think that cardio exercise isn’t good for you. It is! But it can’t be all you do. Lift some heavy stuff! 🚶🏼♂️
I love to try new things and in the future, I want to run a 100 mile ultra marathon and I want to compete throwing shot and discuss at the Senior Olympics. And I for sure want to do a powerlifting competition. What about you? What are you going to do for your physical fitness?
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