Fitness…30,40,50,60 and beyond… What you need to know?
Fitness Is for life or its relevance to us ceases. Our experience of health and fitness is in the now, though some roots lie in the past. How many times have we heard or said, “ I remember when I could or I want to be like I was in …”
- Comparison to years past is a trap and creates unhealthy minds and false expectations.
The truth is fitness is about function. What we can do. It takes mere moments living with debility to broadcast this to our soul. Though tomorrow is not promised the wise act like it is coming just in case we live to experience it. Don’t take your body’s health for granted. The human body needs care. As we age, we change this is unavoidable in the natural course.
Picture this.
You are a new car. Your driver drives you everyday. In summer he drives you hard only replacing oil and fluid when the warning light comes on. Your driver drives you fast and hard whether on pristine road or crater crumpled street.
Your driver forgoes warming you up in winter and spring brings skips in scheduled maintenance.
Your driver drives you.
Hard and fast
Every, single day the years pass.
Feels like your driver will drive you till the wheels fall off. And they do… They are then replaced, as is the car itself after only a few years of driving.
Human bodies can’t be replaced and replacement parts are never as good as the original.
- Even having have lived an unhealthy lifestyle, it is often the case that significant improvement in health can be achieved by letting go of a single unhealthy habit.
- The mind and body respond to movement. We equate lack of movement in most things to death.
- Movement equals life. The cessation of movement is anti life.
Think about this.
Being sedentary is like watching a bug on its back, while a kid burns it with a magnifying glass on a cloudy day waiting for the sun to break through.
It is impossible to divide the mind from the body. They inform and influence each other. If your not happy your body’s not happy. When your body’s not happy your minds not happy.
As we age it is crucial to maintain function, strength and integrity of the muscles bones and connective tissue. Weight bearing activity becomes more important, because as we age we lose muscle mass and the metabolism slows. It is easier to maintain than regain. Stamina and endurance are essential to function so include some endurance activity that makes sense to you. Don’t do too much or too little it’s the same problem in the long run
Beyond that our abilities must be maintained and if possible, I suggest enhanced. Enhancing our abilities provides motivation to continue with a regimen, because we see progress and stimulate the mind. It may also offset any potential loss of function through age.
Some benefits of exercise movement training as we age are
- Maintaining or developing dexterity and agility, which may help you to avoid Injury through carelessness or loss of ability.
- Prevent diminishing range of motion, loss of reflexes the dulling of the mind and senses.
In other words, it could be the difference between dropping the glass on your foot vs. possibly catching it in your hand or moving out of harms way.
- A true fitness adherent is optimistic that tomorrow and tomorrow will come.
What are you doing now that is detrimental to your health and well being that you know of that can be corrected?
Fitness for smart people
You are more likely to stick with a training system that has progression and teaches basic to advanced movement concepts and principles! Leave the fads alone.
I like teachers that have decades of experience they have something to impart and teach. Their longevity and commitment inspires. Avoid depletion based exercise training. Being beat up is not healthy!
The candle that burns the brightest burns the shortest.
- Moderation
Too little or too much is the same problem.
- Avoid extremes.
What do you enjoy doing? What turns you on?
- Avoid complacency
What do you want to be able to do?
- Identify what is important to you.
Everyday is different.
- Make modifications based on the NOW
Remember that everyone is different and results will vary based on the individual!
Don’t continue down a path that is not good for you. True training teaches, inspires and influences you in the everyday. Observe yourself, trust your own information. Make the choices you need to keep flowing and functioning at as high a level as you can muster for the rest of the life you have.
Keep moving.
Find something that turns you on and keep moving.
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inspired by Alex Smith www.thelmahill.com
Do you wanna know the secret to long life? Get up every single day and don't miss one! - William "Perl" Ore
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