Feeling Young And Healthy

No one wants to admit they’re getting older, but the fact is, you’ve been getting older since the day you were born. How old you actually get is greatly affected by your health and lifestyle. If you’re approaching your 40s or even older, and you’ve never exercised or taken care of your health, you may already be on medication and having health related problems. Even so, adding some fitness to your daily routine and eating a healthier diet can still be beneficial for you.

If you’ve always been somewhat healthy and want to maintain that into your old age, it will be a little easier for you to keep up what you’re doing and even adopt some new stuff into your routine.

So, what types of exercises can you do as you start hitting middle age and above? You can basically do the same things younger people do, you just need to keep a slower pace and don’t push yourself. As you age, your recovery time will be slower, so it’s best to avoid injury as much as you can.

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Strength Training

Strength training is important at any age, not just for people who are getting older and need to keep their strength up. This isn’t about building big bulky muscles either. It’s about keeping your muscles toned and strong. Strength training is also a great way to help build bone mass and prevent bone mass loss.  Your strength-training program should include exercises for all your muscle groups, especially your arms and legs.

If you’re new to strength training, you may want to start without weights and simply use your own body weight as resistance. When that becomes easy, you’ll be ready to move up to light weights. Your goal is to increase the weights gradually. Resistance bands are another great way to strengthen your muscles and build muscle tone. Not only that, they are extremely portable.  As you progress, you can add more sets of each exercise and more weight.

Cardio Exercise

Cardio not only increases your endurance but it also strengthens your heart. Experts recommend 30 minutes of cardio exercise every day. When you’re first starting out this may be impossible. You may find yourself out of breath in about 5 minutes. This is a sure sign that you need it. If five or ten minutes is all you can do, then do it. You will build up more endurance over time as you keep doing it on  a daily basis.
You want to choose cardio activitives that you enjoy doing. If you like walking indoors you can get a treadmill. If you enjoy being outdoors you can walk around your neighborhood or a local park. Other things include bike riding, aerobics, dancing for fitness–whatever you enjoy doing. Just do it every day and stick with it. As your endurance increases, you can try other activities and increase the length of your workouts.

Balance and Flexibility

Yoga is great for working on balance and flexibility at the same time. Yoga poses can get your heart rate up, but most of the poses are very gentle and become easy to do very quickly. Don’t think you have to look like the instructor. These people have been practicing for years and are very flexible and have amazing balance. You will work up to these levels over time, but if you never get that flexible, that’s okay too. Any flexibility is better than stiff and tight muscles.

Yoga can also be very relaxing, believe it or not. It’s also great for calming your mind and helping you focus. Staying flexible can keep you from getting stiff as you grow older. When you suffer from a decreased range of motion, you are more susceptible to injuries. Staying flexible will help protect you.

Using yoga poses to learn balance will also help you in other areas of life. It will make going down stairs easier. Many people get dizzy on stairs. This is generally due to a lack of balance. They feel off center and worry about falling. Gaining balance will help you in these types of situations and can also keep you independent and mobile as you age.

It’s important to stay fit by including all these types of exercise into your daily routine. It’s especially important for you to maintain your strength, endurance and flexibility as you get older. The improvements you’ll see in your quality of life are worth it.

Feeling Young And Healthy