“Jack be nimble, Jack be quick,
Jack jumped over the candlestick.”
When we think of the physical aspects of Health and Fitness, we most often think in terms of strength and endurance; weights and treadmills.
Just as important as strength, is “Agility” — the ability to move around quickly and easily. Nimbleness. Gracefulness. Agility is defined as “having the characteristics of speed, coordination, and the ability to react quickly and appropriately to change.”
(more…)Most seniors want to wake up in the morning looking good and feeling good. Instead, too many seniors wake up and start the day with physical discomfort, low energy, poor posture, tired all the time, poor leg and core strength. You get out of breath a lot, have creaky joints, are anxious, tense, sometimes depressed or bored, and on and on and on. And yes, there’s more.
Sound familiar? Do you wake up in the morning disliking the way you look and feel, sometimes dreading the day ahead? Not always, but more frequently than not?
(more…)We are about to experience some major cold weather here in parts of the United States. In fact, tomorrow night, here in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC, the temperature will plunge to 6 degrees (F). We are expecting some minor snow tonight and then again on Friday. The Chicago area is expected to be as cold as the Arctic Circle. Wind chill as low as -65 degrees (F) is forecast for Northern Minnesota and Wisconsin this week. Ah, the Polar Vortex in action.
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