Real Fit at Every Age: A Fitness Guide to Optimal Health from 1 to 100 by Julie de Lagarde

Author:Julie de Lagarde [de Lagarde, Julie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Waterfront Press
Published: 2014-12-17T17:00:00+00:00

This list is a short compilation of the thousands of health benefits of exercise. Essentially, human beings developed to be physically active as a means of survival. As our lifestyle becomes more sedentary across the globe, our ability to survive is now rapidly declining, despite the many conveniences of modern living.

When it comes to what kind of exercise, there are a few important factors to keep in mind.

1 – Cross training is ideal for maintaining a healthy body. Boiled down to its essence, this means doing a variety of activities rather than just one. A combination of aerobic and an-aerobic movements are best in terms of disease prevention and reducing repetitive stress injuries. This means something like yoga once a week and walking or swimming on other days. It’s important to stretch your body as well as to pump your heart and lungs. Consider integrating a few different workouts into your weeks. You can use stretches and calisthenics to warm up, join a gym, or find a few hobbies to keep in rotation.

2 - When injury and illness occur, it’s important to honor your body. However, contrary to popular medical advice, this doesn’t mean quitting your routine altogether. Some deep breathing or seated chi gong may deepen your connection to your body and add a boost to your normal workouts when you’re ready to get back to them. Be creative and carve out time for yourself. A week off of exercise will not be the determinate factor in your health, but allowing yourself to “fall off the wagon” will.

3 – Proper nutrition fuels a healthy body. Working out alone will not create optimal health and prevent disease, though it is a key factor in doing so.

4 – Whatever kinds of exercise you do, remember that your body is the primary element in your life story. Sports, activities and hobbies – whether with friends, on teams, in classes or solo – provide the backdrop for some of our great moments in life. Besides having fun and feeling good, we gain confidence, willingness, and inspiration from showing up again and again. Some of our greatest “aha” moments happen when we’re challenging ourselves just beyond our limits. This can mean coming back from an illness or injury, recovering from childbirth, or reaching new heights of health and fitness goals we never previously dreamed possible. For some of us, it means discovering we’re happy doing things we’ve never done before – sometimes things far less rigorous than we thought, sometimes things far more. Remember, all of life is constantly changing. If we choose to change with it, we stay healthy and alive. If we try to stop the motion, we invite in illness and disease.

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