Can fitness training prevent injury? How can you prevent injury while you exercise and get 6 positive results in fitness training? Check out how to get the 6 positive results in senior fitness?
Senior fitness makes cents in numerous ways. But, one of the most important is connecting wisdom to physical fitness. Likewise, wise training helps you use what you know to keep yourself injury-free. Furthermore, if you don’t use wisdom during physical training you will continue to re-injure yourself. Therefore, senior fitness sense makes a lot of cents to your pocket.
First: Use Wisdom During Physical Training
Physical fitness as a senior requires more wisdom than strength. Most physically fit seniors have already spent a year exercising, eating right, and practicing good health strategies. If you fail to practice good fit strategies, you may find yourself in a yo-yo of developing re-occurring injuries.
Knee and back flareup present themselves as re-occurring injuries for me each year. I am learning that the flareup is trigger by the change in the seasonal temperatures. Even more so, the flareups occur even though I use preventative measures. For example, I make sure that I warmup before training. Nonetheless, when the temperature changes, I seem to pull my back out of whack.
Sometimes, I think the flareups occur from using too much weight during my strengthening exercises. So be wise, if the weather affects you as it does me. Lighten your weights until your body adjusts to the difference in temperature.
Second: Find the Exercise That Is Best For You
As a senior who lives in the northern part of the United States, I participate in indoor sports more than outdoor sports. My favorite sports are bowling, jogging, working out on the elliptical, and lightweight training. However, all of these sports start to take a toll on your body.
But, should you let that stop you from doing something? I cannot answer for you, but for me, no. I decided to increase my physical endurance and muscular strength.
I began by doing the same exercises that the physical therapist has you do when you injure your back or knee. Most of the exercises overlap, so I use them as my personal fitness strategy. Sometimes, I do these exercises 3 or 4 times per week. Then there are other times when I struggle to do them once per week.
Nonetheless, as I have gotten older, I put more effort into doing them three times per week for preventative measures.
Third: Continue to Us Preventative Safe Training Strategies
Successfully using senior fitness sense will keep your cents in your purse. Keeping the cents in your purse will make your cents grown. One way that I make cents grow in my purse is by spending my insurance money like it is coming out of my pocket. For example, I use at home self-therapy to reduce the cost of paying additional doctor bills.
As I stated earlier, those of us who continually injury ourselves, probably know what the doctor is going to say and the therapist is going to do. I am certainly not giving medical advice here. I am simply sharing how to reduce doctor bills. For me using the heat and ice therapy has worked wonders when my back starts to hurt and I am bent over trying to walk.
When I use heat and ice therapy. I follow the recommended time given by my physical therapists. My therapist recommends a rotation of heat for 20 minutes, then ice for 20 minutes with a cover between your body and the ice pack. This strategy has helped me tremendously.
Personally, I find preventative strategies to be more of a plus than a minus. I believe that learning and using preventative will help the cash that you keep growing quickly. Consequently, medical studies the use of preventative exercise. These studies find an increase in physical fitness:
- Leads to a reduction in mental stress.
- Reduces the need for psychological care.
- Increases the body’s ability to remove toxins and waste quicker and easier.
- Increases muscular strength and youthful flexibility.
- Expands physical movement and increases mental clarity.
- Improves sleep patterns and quality of rest.
Fourth: Be knowledgeable of relapse, flareups and recovery time
Knowing your body and using preventative fitness strategies should reduce your recovery time. I will be honest I hate recovery time. As I stated earlier, my flareups seem to occur with the change of the seasons. It took me a long time to learn this about my body. Although flareups suck, they are not as bad as a relapse.
A relapse develops before recovery occurs. So hopefully, the use of preventative exercise will reduce the chances of a relapse. In reviewing medical information concerning flareups and relapse of physical injuries, I learned that flareups can be more difficult to manage. Nonetheless, sitting and doing nothing will not help. Therefore, continued fitness training like walking when possible will release the body’s natural painkillers.
Conclusion
We began by explaining that fitness makes cents in numerous ways. But, one of the most important is connecting wisdom to your physical fitness. Next, I shared the two most troubling flareups that I experience almost every year. After that, I shared my favorite exercises and explain what caused the back and knee issues.
After that, I explained the most important aspect of this article. I shared how I save money by using heat and ice therapy along with preventative measures. I move on to share how senior fitness results in 6 positive results in your body. I conclude my article by stating the difference between flareups and relapses.
Resources
How can exercise help chronic pain? www.webmd.com