5 ways to keep mobile as you age!!!

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When people are young, if they are fortunate enough to enjoy good health, they get to move their bodies with carefree abandon — running, jumping, bending, dancing, twisting — in pursuit of whatever activity they are engaged in.
But if they are lucky enough to get older, life intervenes: Free time becomes more limited, and interests, responsibilities, habits and behavior all change. Many people abandon the playground and learn to sit — in a classroom, at the office, in front of the TV, in a car.
“The one thing that doesn’t have to change over the whole lifespan is your range of motion,” Dr. Kelly Starrett, a physical therapist and former professional athlete, told CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta recently on his podcast, Chasing Life.

1. Get your body into different shapes

People mostly move from lying down to sitting in a chair to walking around a bit. Modern environments don’t really ask much of the movement language of our bodies. Most people are only using a few words that their bodies could write.

One of the easiest ways, for example, that we think would foundationally change society is if people sat on the ground in the evening, for 20 or 30 minutes while they were watching TV, while they’re reading a book. “And that could be leaning up against the couch; it doesn’t have to be in a strict lotus.”

2. Hang from a bar 3 minutes a day

If you’re experiencing aches and pains in your shoulders, neck or back, Start to hang for three minutes a day.

3. Walk more

To keep stiffness at bay and maintain your mobility, Starrett advises everyone to do plenty of walking every day.

4. Play more

We started to treat the health of the body as like some onerous task, noting that play has been lost in our modern lives. When’s the last time you did a sport or jumped into a dance class.

5. Don’t neglect the basics

Recommended aiming for 800 grams of fruits and vegetables a day. That could be frozen, that could be fresh, that could be beans, that could be potatoes, that could be fruits and vegetables. It’s about fiber and micronutrients. I need you to have all the vitamins and minerals on board so that you can have healthy tissues.

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