For people over 40, and particularly over 55, fitness becomes an important consideration should they wish to remain healthy and self-employed. Four types of exercises are recommended for complete fitness. As with anything regarding your health, you should seek advice from with your medical doctor before dealing with any intense activity.

The four advised types of exercises are: strength, balance, stretching and endurance, every serves a specific purpose in maintaining a healthy, fit lifestyle for seniors over fifty. Strength exercises build up muscles, increases metabolism, and this as you know can keep both your weight and your blood glucose in check. A double bonus.

Balance exercises manage your lower leg muscles, building them up. This is important for seniors as it prevents comes. No more need to cry out, "I've dropped and I can't wake up! " Wouldn't that be nice? Stretching exercises helps you be more active during your later years. Why don't face it. Being a senior doesn't have to mean planting your bottom part on the porch rocking chair, fading away in your twilight years.

Ultimately, endurance exercises are what most people can and probably are doing on a family regular basis. Things like walking, jogging, floating around, and biking. Really anything that acts your heart race and your breathing further for a while. But here, it's important to realize that you shouldn't jump right in to Fit or Fitness? endurance exercises. Progressive is the key word here. Work your way up to a desired level of activity. I would recommend starting with 5 minutes of strength activity when you first start, then move up from there. Again, especially here, it is good to with your medical doctor first.

More than 30% of Americans over the era of 55 have indicated that walking is the primary activity of choice. This is followed, in order of importance, by - swimming, fishing, bike using, camping, golf, bowling, using exercise equipment, hiking, hunting, aerobics exercises, calisthenics, running, and finally tennis. It is interesting to notice that women choose more fitness-related activities like swimming and aerobics, while the men, in keeping with the tradition of the race, bind themselves gravitating toward the outdoor exercising, like hunting, camping and fishing.

Typical physical activity. What makes it so important? - not just through one lives, but as we have older, why does it become crucial than ever? There are several reasons for its importance in our senior lives. It helps the body maintain, repair and improve itself. Consider physical fitness in the same sense as you would fine-tuning car engines. With fitness and health, your "engine" (your body) can perform at their optimum levels.

The best thing about physical fitness is the fact anyone can do it, at any age, even those people with illnesses and disabilities. Associated with course, these latter people would need to consult with their doctors first, and would probably only be able to handle physical fitness activities in moderation, but it's a start. Regularly active people are also known to suffer less from bone fractures and other accidents which often plagues seniors.