Exercise Tips For Women Over 50
Make Being Active Your Daily Routine
YOU CAN GET FIT AT 50
So start a new chapter in your book called GET FIT AT 50 and begin with one or a couple of the following:
- AEROBIC EXERCISES like walking, jogging, swimming, and dancing. Aerobics works the large muscles and help your cardiovascular system and your weight. Aim for 20 or more minutes per session, 3 or 4 days a week.
- STRENGTH TRAINING using hand weights. This will improve your strength, your bone strength, posture, reduce your risk of back injury, and also helps you get tone. Get a hand weight (I’d start with either 3 pounds or 5 pounds) and do 8 reps exercise move.
- STRETCHING EXERCISES as in YOGA and PILATES. This will help get you flexible and maintain the range of motion in your joints. It will also build your core and increase stability.
MAKE “BEING ACTIVE” YOUR DAILY ROUTINE
Simple steps to being active:
- Take the stairs instead of an elevator
- Walk your dog
- Do daily walks around your neighborhood
- No neighborhood? Walk the floors in your building
- Walk around the mall (but no shopping)
- Take up an activity like tennis, bowling, kayaking.
Just do something to stay active. Let us know if you’re rewriting your book and how it’s working out for you.
