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Fitness Solutions for the Elderly by Lystra Bowie

Fitness Solutions for the Elderly by Lystra Bowie. Don’t be couch potatoes!. Do you hope to maintain quality of life as you grow older?. Being active can help improve quality of life, decrease risk of disease, and most important help improve balance and reduce falls

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Fitness Solutions for the Elderly by Lystra Bowie

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  1. Fitness Solutions for the Elderlyby Lystra Bowie Don’t be couch potatoes!

  2. Do you hope to maintain quality of life as you grow older? • Being active can help improve quality of life, decrease risk of disease, and most important help improve balance and reduce falls • Many age-associated declines occurs as a result of being inactive. • Many of the symptoms of old age are really the symptoms of inactivity

  3. Turning back the aging clock • Regular exercise has shown to decrease mortality and age-related morbidity • Seniors and even frail adults can increase quality of life by adopting a physically active lifestyle • An easy-to follow exercise program is ideally suited for seniors • As you age maintain mobility and physical independence

  4. Weapons Against Aging • Choose activities you enjoy. • Make being fit part of your everyday life. Playing with children, gardening, walking, dancing, and housecleaning • Combine a range of activities that include aerobic activity, strengthening, flexibility, and balance. • Start slow and gradually build up to a total of at least 30 minutes of activity a day.

  5. Weapons Against Aging Con’t • Keep safety in mind. Always wear comfortable, well-fitting shoes and use appropriate safety gear • Avoid outdoor activities in extreme cold or heat. Drink plenty of fluids • Primary care physicians have an important role to play so check with your doctor before starting any exercise program.

  6. Types of Exercise • Walking briskly (3 to 4 mph) • Cycling leisurely (¾10 mph) • Strength-training stretches • Flexibility training • Weightlifting • Swimming

  7. Benefits of Exercise • Cardiovascular • Improves blood pressure • Decreases risk of coronary artery disease • Improves congestive heart failure symptoms • Diabetes mellitus, type 2 • Decreases incidence • Improves glycemic control • Improves insulin sensitivity • Osteoporosis • Decreases bone density loss • Decreases hip and vertebral fractures • Decreases risk of falling • Osteoarthritis • Improves function • Decreases pain

  8. Summary It is important that you're able to perform your daily tasks, enjoy your recreational activities, and care for yourself. Only by choosing to adopt a physically active lifestyle can you make this change. If you do happen to have some physical limitations, you would want to halt or maybe even improve your condition. This doesn't have to be just wishful thinking. You don't have to accept frailty as you age!

  9. References • Rehabilitation and Restoration - Exercise & Fitness for the Elderly. (1998) Retrieved February 28, 2008 from http://medinfo.ufl.edu/cme/hmoa/tape4/talk3/slide1.html • American Academy of Family Physicians. (2002) Promoting and Prescribing Exercise for the Elderly. Retrieved March 1, 2008 from http://www.aafp.org/afp/20020201/419.html • Simple Fitness Solutions. Older adult exercises, senior fitness program (1996 – 2007) Retrieved March 1, 2008 from http://www.simplefitnesssolutions.com/products/olderadult.htm

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