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Senior Physical Fitness Is A Piece Of Cake
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Senior Physical Fitness Is A Piece Of Cake
-by Raymond Angus
© Raymond Angus - All Rights Reserved
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Senior Physical Fitness has become the yardstick today by
which people measure the quality of life. The buzz word
currently making the rounds of many weight training gyms is
"no pain…no gain."
Obviously, this means that in order to earn the maximum
benefit from any senior exercise program one has to perform
enough repetitions to stress a muscle to exhaustion.
Is that a fact? Is that the only way to do it? Has science
established this protocol beyond the shadow of a doubt? Is
it true that if a physical fitness workout doesn't create
aches and soreness in your body then the exercises aren't
doing you any good?
Behold the real truth!
That is a falsehood ballyhooed by the owners of gyms and
spread around by workout equipment salesmen. A moderate
senior exercise program is the way to go! If you are a
senior citizen beyond the hallowed fifty year age, pain is
not the threshold beyond which lies the utopia of physical
fitness.
Modern, medical science has demonstrated that moderate
physical exercise is the desirable criteria. A regular
regimen of physical exercise, practiced on a consistent
schedule over an extended period of time will yield
wonderous results.
Why?
Because each of us is the sum total of two very different
ages of life. One is our chronological age, and the other
is our biological age. The two of them very rarely
coincide.
The first of our ages, the chronological one, is literally
carved in stone. We have one single birth date apiece and
it is unchanging. The only action that will alter it is the
burning, or loss of our birth certificate and the swearing
to secrecy of all people who have ever seen it.
But the second age, the biological one offers each of us the
opportunity to alter it. It lies within our personal
authority to change it in any degree we wish.
We can cloak it by covering our outward appearance with an
entire panorama of cosmetics, paints, plastics and padding.
Or we can mold it and literally reshape it by affecting its
initial structure and performance.
The cosmetic approach will require only money and some trial
and error. But the remolding of our true appearance will
take effort, persistence and determination. The effect of
the latter approach will throw open the gateway to a
marvelous new life style.
Have you ever met someone whose chronological age you knew,
but were surprised, perhaps even amazed, at their physical
appearance and conduct? If you were asked to venture a
guess about their calendar age you might be wrong by twenty
or even thirty years.
This could be you in a relatively short period
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of time.
Three simple steps will lead you there.
1. Select the weight you want to achieve and create the
daily meals you need to eat to get you there. Be practical
and realistic about it. Give yourself several months to
attain it. Remember, you're changing your life! Do some
research on preparing meals and make it fun doing so!
2. Increase your activities each day. Walk around the block
once in the morning if that's all you can do, but do it
everyday. Devote a half hour daily to your new physical
fitness program. Make it simple and avoid anything painful.
3. Check your weight on the scale once a week, no more often
than that.
Plan a simple senior physical fitness program for your
personal well being. Follow it faithfully. Make it your
new way of living. Don't compare yourself with anyone else
in the world. It's your own quality of life…make it the way
you want it to be.
Visualize the new physically fit you, and go for it!
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