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Working exercise is probably the most essential method to prevent your body and mind from aging.

That’s right: both the body and the intellect. Your brain’s main function is to move your body, and a significant portion of your grey matter is devoted to this task. Nothing beats being active and exercising if you want to keep learning and making new connections in your brain. Furthermore, exercise promotes the release of a variety of important neurochemicals such as dopamine and serotonin.

It has been proven to significantly enhance memory as well as IQ. Meanwhile, the health advantages are enormous. Maintaining an active lifestyle may assist to enhance heart health and reduce the risk of heart disease. It may also help you look better, fight diabetes, avoid depression, strengthen your bones (particularly if you workout outdoors in the sun), and much more.

More significantly, as we mentioned in the beginning, keeping active is the greatest method to avoid losing mobility in old age, which would leave us slumped and in continuous discomfort. So, how can you remain active in an age-appropriate manner to fight age-related health issues?

There is just one rule: Move!

Get up and stand with your feet slightly apart and your toes pointing front right now. Squat all the way down with your heels flat on the ground.

Don’t think you’ll be able to accomplish it?

This isn’t only an issue for the elderly; 90 percent of men and women in their 20s and 30s are unable to do so as well. You should, however, be able to accomplish it. Squatting is one of the seven primordial motions, and it’s a skill that everyone should be able to do.

Why don’t you try touching your toes?

The issue is that most of us spend 8 hours a day in the same posture at a workplace. Our shoulders are slumped forward, our neck is craned down, and our legs are bowed in this posture. This shortens and tightens muscles like the quadriceps and pecs, while weakening and flattening our hamstrings and glutes. The longer this goes on, the worse the situation becomes.

We may even create a pelvic tilt in the future. Is it any surprise that as you become older, you can’t move at all? As a result, the goal is to avoid starting a “soft workout.” Rather, being extremely active and pushing your body is the key. That should be able to handle it, but you’ll need a coach to show you how to ease into it and progressively raise the challenge while keeping one eye on mobility.

Reading books like Becoming a Supple Leopard will show you that the greatest way to age is to utilize our bodies through their entire range of motion and continuing doing so. Weightlifting is a wonderful workout for older people since it teaches proper technique for exercises like the squat and dead lift, ensuring that you have a complete range of motion.

This is especially essential if you suffer a fall or an accident, since this will almost always act as the trigger for a slew of other issues. If this occurs, you should see a chiropractor or physiotherapist, and then follow their recommendations to strengthen the region and avoid negative side effects throughout your body. Of course, if you have any current issues, you may not be ready to squat and lunge just yet.

In such scenario, you may wish to start with some light cardio in the interim, which will assist to offer those health and cognitive advantages in the near run. Most low-impact types of exercise, such as swimming, walking (or power walking), riding a recumbent bike, and others that don’t need you to strike anything with force, are good choices. Just keep in mind that the aim should always be to progress to more complicated movements.

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