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