It’s going to happen to all of us! There is a way to fight it , however there is no way to stop it from happening!
I fight it every day by trying to eat healthy. This doesn’t mean I am perfect in my eating habits, but making more good decisions than bad is what I strive for. Healthy eating does so much to feed our body what it needs to be healthy, i.e. look younger. As we age it shows up in how our skin looks, muscle tone etc. Exercise, both in cardio and strength form, helps with muscle tone and increasing blood flow throughout the body to keep a healthy glow!
Doing all we can with exercise as we age will do a lot! Here is the challenge, and there is nothing we can do about it. We naturally lose strength as we age. When training older adults who have been active their entire life, they sometimes get very frustrated with this and feel they are going backwards with their fitness. I notice this for myself since turning 50 last year. It’s frustrating because we spent so many years getting stronger! One thing is for sure. If you stay consistent with your workouts throughout your life you will still be much stronger than someone your same age who doesn’t exercise. There are many things we have to take in stride as age hits us and this is one of them. As I have heard so many older fitness enthusiast say, “getting old is for the weak minded”. Understand that what we are doing throughout our life will give us a much better quality of life!
Until next time…
