I have written a lot about fitness and the importance of being fit as you get older. I haven’t written about specific routines because I’m more interested in the value of being a fit person rather making this a blog about how to exercise.
There is also a difference between training your body and simple exercise. As a senior, I am in favor of training your body to do specific things and adapt them to your age, vs exercise for the sake of exercise, even though the latter is important if that’s your reason.
Below are some random thoughts I have come up with over the years that are simply relevant by themselves. I give them to you here in hopes that one or two might strike a chord with those of you who don’t train your bodies, to start taking action to do it. There is no particular order, they are just randomly written. Maybe a few of them can be expanded into future articles.
- Your body is a tool. It provides you with the physical energy you need to be able to do the things you want to do as a senior. It’s important to keep that tool in good working order as you get older. Any tool continues to work well when it is well taken care of. That’s the main purpose of training your body.
- Everything you do in life is affected by the strength and endurance in your body. When you do something, bring your energy to it. You have to be fit to be able to function well.
- Here’s an important question you must ask in your relationship with your body. Does your body help you get stuff done, or is it an anchor that holds you back?
- As Seniors, here’s something that we should all think about as we get older and start to notice the effects of aging. PEOPLE WILL LOOK AT YOU DIFFERENTLY WHEN YOU ARE FIT. They see you as a leader. They see you as active and alive with energy. They see you as a doer who keeps your own house (body) in order. They are more likely to follow you as a leader if you are fit than if you are starting the physical slide that accompanies age for so many seniors. People gravitate to active, fit, energetic people and tend to shy away from those who are starting to falter on the road to a long life. Sad, but true. Some see that as “AGEISM”.
- There is a lot of talk lately about AGEISM. It can happen to you only if you let it. But people will defer thoughts of ageism when they see an energetic, fit and posture perfect senior. It’s up to you not to let the old person in and to be susceptible to the ageism that some see entering the scene. I am 81 and I don’t see it, unless you consider senior discounts at stores, senior coffee at MacDonalds of maybe even Starbucks. I like the AARP discounts which I am offered at hotels and restaurants, etc. If that’s ageism, give me more.
- When you decide to exercise and train your body to function as it should, you are taking ownership of your own health.
When you follow my random thoughts about fitness and taking care of your own health, fitness and personal energy, you will be able to say to yourself:
“I AM MY OWN
FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH”
Thank you for reading.