Many people think that as we age that we should ‘take it easy’ and ’slow down’, limiting our physical activity. This is far from the truth. It has been proven that as we age we should definitely continue our physical activity in order to stay mentally and physically fit and viable. So if you want to maintain a high quality of life you have to ‘work’ at it because staying physically and mentally fit will not happen without your commitment and dedication.

Exercising is not an easy task it requires extensive work and dedication. Our ancestors performed physical work and were in constant motion on a daily basis. In today’s society we no longer perform this type of physical labor instead it has been replaced by technology and industrialization. Although progress in general is good, it has not had a good affect on our bodies. Our bodies were made to remain physically active in order to stay healthy and fit. To eliminate or reduce the premature aging processes we need to perform physical activities to stimulate the cells in our body to repair, rebuild and renew.

The best way to put the physical activities back into our lifestyles is through strength training exercise. This can reverse muscle and bone lose caused by our sedimentary lives and condition our bodies to function better and become more fit. When your body is exposed to strength training exercise it is stimulated to produce human growth hormones. These hormones can slow the aging process and keep you young and active.

Engaging in muscle building and toning exercises your bones, muscles and entire body will begin to rebuild and renew. This activity will remove the degenerated tissue and cells of your body and replace them with new tissue that is younger, stronger and healthier.

Increasing our hormone levels and increasing our muscle mass that diminished through our aging can not only provide you with a healthier younger looking and feeling body, but muscle tissue damage will begin to reverse to recapture some of what we have in our twenty’s.

Without proper exercise between your twenty’s and eighty’s 35% to 50% of our muscle mass can vanish. Leg muscles begin to deteriorate around the age of thirty and continue throughout the rest of your life. This decrease in muscle mass will be noticeable in a mirror because your leg will look thinner. Loss of muscle affects your body and overall health. This reduces the fat burning potential, creates fatigue issues, weakens your immune system and causes a host of other issues.

Exercise is an important activity to help you stay young and fit but not all types of exercises are intense enough for your body to create the “good” hormones. Low intensity activities like walking or a leisurely bike ride can increase your heart rate but will not release those special ‘fitness’ hormones that create metabolic efficiency, reduce the signs of aging, and help your body lose fat.

We’ve got a stretch of leisure time ahead of us uncharted by any previous generation and to survive it, rejoice in it, value it, is going to take some planning. Sure, we all talk about volunteering, taking classes, joining a social club but the trick is to actually do it; to really get out and create balance. Have you noticed at your local coffee shop the number of people who sip alone and contrast them with the groups of grey-haired ones who come in on bikes! What interests you? Birding? Check out your local Audubon. Walks; hiking? There must be a local group. What about a chapter of OLLI (Osher Life Long Learning Institute) for classes taught by peer group volunteers, often based on life experience and passion. Search out a community garden in your neighborhood and if one doesn’t exist, see what you can do to rally a group to find the land to get one started

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