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 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!