| Word count: 623 | | | | our birth certificate and the swearingto |
| Character width: 60 | | | | secrecy of all people who have ever seen |
| Resource box: 6 lines + web link to | | | | it. |
| "theseniorslife.com" | | | | But the second age, the biological one |
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| = | | | | alter it. It lies within our |
| Senior Physical Fitness Is A Piece Of | | | | personalauthority to change it in any |
| Cake | | | | degree we wish. |
| - by Raymond Angus | | | | We can cloak it by covering our outward |
| © Raymond Angus - All Rights Reserved | | | | appearance with anentire panorama of |
| ======================================= | | | | cosmetics, paints, plastics and padding. |
| = | | | | Or we can mold it and literally reshape |
| Senior Physical Fitness has become the | | | | it by affecting itsinitial structure and |
| yardstick today bywhich people measure | | | | performance. |
| the quality of life. The buzz | | | | The cosmetic approach will require only |
| wordcurrently making the rounds of many | | | | money and some trialand error. But the |
| weight training gyms is | | | | remolding of our true appearance |
| "no pain…no gain." | | | | willtake effort, persistence and |
| Obviously, this means that in order to | | | | determination. The effect ofthe latter |
| earn the maximumbenefit from any senior | | | | approach will throw open the gateway to |
| exercise program one has to | | | | amarvelous new life style. |
| performenough repetitions to stress a | | | | Have you ever met someone whose |
| muscle to exhaustion. | | | | chronological age you knew,but were |
| Is that a fact? Is that the only way to | | | | surprised, perhaps even amazed, at their |
| do it? Has scienceestablished this | | | | physicalappearance and conduct? If you |
| protocol beyond the shadow of a doubt? | | | | were asked to venture aguess about their |
| Isit true that if a physical fitness | | | | calendar age you might be wrong by |
| workout doesn't createaches and soreness | | | | twentyor even thirty years. |
| in your body then the exercises | | | | This could be you in a relatively short |
| aren'tdoing you any good? | | | | period of time. |
| Behold the real truth! | | | | Three simple steps will lead you there. |
| That is a falsehood ballyhooed by the | | | | 1. Select the weight you want to achieve |
| owners of gyms andspread around by | | | | and create thedaily meals you need to |
| workout equipment salesmen. A | | | | eat to get you there. Be practicaland |
| moderatesenior exercise program is the | | | | realistic about it. Give yourself |
| way to go! If you are asenior citizen | | | | several months toattain it. Remember, |
| beyond the hallowed fifty year age, pain | | | | you're changing your life! Do |
| isnot the threshold beyond which lies | | | | someresearch on preparing meals and make |
| the utopia of physicalfitness. | | | | it fun doing so! |
| Modern, medical science has demonstrated | | | | 2. Increase your activities each day. |
| that moderatephysical exercise is the | | | | Walk around the blockonce in the morning |
| desirable criteria. A regularregimen of | | | | if that's all you can do, but do |
| physical exercise, practiced on a | | | | iteveryday. Devote a half hour daily to |
| consistentschedule over an extended | | | | your new physicalfitness program. Make |
| period of time will yieldwonderous | | | | it simple and avoid anything painful. |
| results. | | | | 3. Check your weight on the scale once a |
| Why? | | | | week, no more oftenthan that. |
| Because each of us is the sum total of | | | | Plan a simple senior physical fitness |
| two very differentages of life. One is | | | | program for yourpersonal well being. |
| our chronological age, and the otheris | | | | Follow it faithfully. Make it yournew |
| our biological age. The two of them | | | | way of living. Don't compare yourself |
| very rarelycoincide. | | | | with anyone elsein the world. It's your |
| The first of our ages, the chronological | | | | own quality of life…make it the wayyou |
| one, is literallycarved in stone. We | | | | want it to be. |
| have one single birth date apiece andit | | | | Visualize the new physically fit you, |
| is unchanging. The only action that | | | | and go for it! |
| will alter it is theburning, or loss of | | | | |