Love Your Life as Active Seniors
Fantastic news for adults over the age of 50! The more active you are, the more likely you are to have a true lust for life, to feel great, and to enjoy retirement once it finally comes your way. Exercise and physical activity not only protect you against certain common forms of health decline that are associated with age, but they help you to stay energized, think more clearly, maintain flexibility, and simply do more without risking fatigue or injury.
Exercise on a regular basis give your body what it needs to continue to take on life at full throttle and love every minute of it. It's for this reason that people aged 50 and over are being advised to either continue their active lifestyle, or to start one up for the first time.
What Does Living Actively Mean?
Being an active senior doesn't mean that you need to hit the gym for a high intensity workout every day. A moderate intensity physical activity is all you need on a regular basis to help you to live longer, reduce the risk of health problems, ease some of the ones that may already have developed, and feel better overall.
Regular fitness appropriate exercise can, for example, help you to keep cholesterol levels under control, it can keep your blood pressure within the healthy range, it can reduce the chance of hardening arteries, as well as the risk of stroke and heart attack. It also improves your tendons, ligaments, joints, muscles, and even bones as it provides you with better balance and flexibility while increasing your protection against osteoporosis. It may even help to reduce your chances of certain cancers.
Active Seniors Boost Their Mental Health, Too!
That said, you don't just benefit on a physical level. When your doctor tells you that you'll feel better, overall, it's also because your mental and emotional health will benefit from regular workouts.
Research study after research study are showing that people over the age of 50 who are active are happier, have a reduced risk of depression, and aren't as likely to suffer from dementia. Among those who do end up with dementia, those who are regularly physically active can slow or even halt its progression, particularly when it is combined with healthy eating. From overall happiness to cognitive preservation, the advantages are widespread and science understands it better with each passing year.
A Better Night of Sleep
Even sleep is better among people who are active on a regular basis, and while you may not sleep for more hours than you had been, the quality of the sleep will drastically improve, leaving you more rested with a stronger immune system, and ready to face every day head-on.
While many people boost that effect with a nighttime sleep aid that can help to wind down at the night to be restful enough for a great sleep overnight, active seniors often find that they are sleeping more restfully all on their own. Daytime activity lends itself to nighttime restfulness after all.
Get Moving!
The message is clear. Active seniors enjoy better physical and mental health as well as overall quality of life than their sedentary counterparts. Keeping moving – even in the form of a daily walk – can make all the difference to the enjoyment you get from your days and the sleep you’re getting at night.