Welcome to Senior Fitness.com! Your #1 source for lifetime fitness information; vital strategies for promoting senior health, life-long strength, vigor and independence.
Learn how to slow and reverse Age-related Functional Decline. We bring you the latest strategies to optimize senior health and fitness into advanced age. The time to start is now; the place to start is here.
Begin by reading How to best use this site: Take the tour. Then act on the knowledge; you can improve health and fitness at any age by using the strategies on these pages.
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Natural Aging by Gary Kenneth Archer Post Date: 03/05/2010
Exercise - The primary driver for reversing age-related functional decline.
Aerobics - to maintain and recover your heart/lung/vascular fitness.
Weight Training - to trigger your anabolic, or muscle-building process; muscle you need to look good and move well, be stronger than you look and dissolve fat 24 hours a day.
Yoga, Pilates, Stretching & Balance - Building poise, posture, flexibility, strength, endurance, balance and grace, while connecting with the spirit within - speed and power aren't the whole story.
Thinking and Attitude - One person's junk is another's treasure; it's all a matter of thinking and attitude. Exercise can be an extremely pleasurable experience; you just have to get your brain to think so.
Hypnosis for Change - Ancient and mysterious; a powerful modern tool for change. Do you wish to be somehow different, better than you were yesterday? Then make hypnosis a part of your strategy of improvement.
Neuro Linguistic Programming - NLP - Strategies and tools for rapid mental and behavioral change that serve your goals.
Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) - Rapid emotional and physical healing by melding acupressure meridian stimulation with linguistic suggestion
Disease and Healing Protocols - Life Extension Foundation's comprehensive review of common diseases and their alternative protocols for healing and resolving the root causes.
Hormone Management - Hormones drive most bodily functions; learn how to manipulate your hormones to stimulate the fat-burning, anti-aging hormones while suppressing those that make you fat, sick, tired and old before your time.
Hormone Strategies for Men - The hormones that make you a male are also protective of your health and well-being. Managing proper hormone levels and balance is a critical part of successful aging.
Hormone Strategies for Women - The hormones that make you a woman impact health and aging in varied ways. Managing the balance and cyclic nature of feminine hormones is a life-long challenge, but one worth mastering.
Joint Health - Nothing works to make you fit if your joints give out; you can keep them healthy if you feed them the right nutrients and prevent needless damage.
Sexual Fitness - A broad look at sexual fitness - for both women and men.
(Nothing erotic, sordid or graphic - just technology and strategies for staying sexually alive and youthful.)
Weight Loss - Weight Management - The real issue is fat loss and fat management; your health, longevity and self esteem are dependent on managing the fat content of your body - the mirror, not the scale, tells the truth!
Byron J Richards and Wellness Resources - If you really want to understand weight gain and health disasters associated with obesity, you need to be listening to Byron J. Richards at Wellness Resources.
I must confess that I have been on a mental side track for the past month and have become all caught up in a distraction of my own making. About ten years ago my mother and father shipped me all of their G-scale garden railroad equipment, which has been in my attic ever since – 13 unopened boxes that were to be a someday – maybe never – project.
Wife Jo and I had been talking for months about ripping out the original plantings and badly overgrown ground cover in a 65 ft by 10 ft raised planter area on one side of our back yard. We wanted to put in a raised vegetable planter area and some fruit trees. I am not fond of yard work, so the plan was to hire the job out. Then one January day Jo said to me, “You need to set up a train layout for our grand daughter” because she showed so much interest in the Christmas train under the tree last year.
Suddenly grand visions of a full-blown railroad empire filled my head and I was on the move. The next time Jo was out babysitting, I hauled all those boxes out of the attic to see what treasures my folks had given me and found enough track to do about 70% of a very nice working layout. I laid it out on the newly bare dirt and figured ‘how hard can it be?’ $1000 later and three weeks of building retaining walls, moving plumbing valves and sprinklers and grading to make reasonably flat what was way too sloped, and I am ready to start laying roadbed and track. My brain is consumed with planning details, and I dream about wiring switches and blocks of track, building structures and have been on the internet night and day doing research. This is crazy, but I love it.
The only exercise I’ve had in 6 weeks has been shoveling dirt and curling 90# bags of mortar and concrete. But it is good to do some real work for a change. I have been throwing around a lot of heavy stuff, and my back has been just fine. I think the Static Contraction Training workout I have used for the last 4-or-so months has made a huge difference in the stability of my lumbar- sacral region. I have had no discomfort from all the heavy lifting and bending. But, I am majorly distracted from my chosen mission of enlightening the world with strategies for aging optimally – I need to get this railroad done enough to get back to running this website very soon!
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