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Posted on 05/30/2025 4:01:55 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
As we age, our balance, stability and coordination can decline. One way to counteract this is to build strength with functional workouts.
Functional exercises mimic everyday actions and strengthen the muscles we use regularly, which can help us move well for longer.
And when we keep our bodies strong and agile, we are less prone to injury and chronic health conditions.
But this doesn’t mean spending hours in the gym or doing complicated workouts.
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Just walk. Running/Jogging is a waste of time.
However a series of quick sprints, if you can do it, is the best use of time.
#45 You can soon do all this running down steps and running down the road...
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I don’t recall what the muscle this works is called but this exercise (and similar ones which work the muscle) have been shown to lower blood sugar.
Should have been listed in the first sentence!
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Definitely not lighter. I don’t recommend a heavy workout to people of a certain age who do not have the know how, but I challenge myself fully. After 20 years as a fitness trainer, I know how to push the limits in a safe way. The three day system is a good one, and one I used for athletes. For the average person, and I now count myself in that category, I prefer to use total body.
My elderly neighbor, past 80, has a persistent (unhealed) knee injury, doesn’t bother her much but she has her own version of squats. Lie down in weighted shoes and push up.
My family history of heart disease and diabetes got me into the gym years ago. AT 69, I’m still doing split workouts at least 4 days a week.
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Wife and I are in our 70s - both walk about 15 miles a week and I use our Condo gym for toning - recently started my wife on light exercises, with light dumbbells and “rubber bands”, that include these and also getting on floor for some light “crunches” and neck, glute exercises - so, if she finds herself on the floor, she knows how to get to a support to stand up again - and develops muscles/flexibility to be able to do it.
Awesome
“Definitely not lighter.”
Do you fully recover between workouts? Are you able to sustain 2x weekly?
I don’t think I could sustain that pace. For each group I need a full week to recover. And as I approach 70yrs I find I need two days “off” a week, one of which is low and slow cardio.
At 81 I still play pickup basketball 2-3 times a week. Slowing down some but set a lot of screens/picks and look to get assists. Shooting smarter, too.
In my 30s, 40s and into my 50s I was a semi-serious runner, training regularly and racing frequently. Then a mild arthritis in the left knee caused the repetitive motion to become too painful. The b’ball doesn’t hurt unless I overdo it- a fourth session in a week will have it complaining.
And doing pull ups will work those arms, traps, lats and intercostals. An isolation exercise for overall muscle development makes no sense. Squats, deadlifts and pull ups are the best three exercises you can do.
Squats, deadlifts and pull ups. The best three multi muscle exercises ever. And it’s not close.
Oh yeah, I fully recover, but if DOMs are still there I cut back to once a week
That is fantastic. If you’re athletic in youth, it follows you into older age. I was also a runner, but can’t run any longer. I try to walk a 5k every or every other day.
Jack LaLane said to always be able to do squats and push ups, planks (similar reps to what you posted) ... to be able to lift yourself up from a fall.
Another great exercise ... as folks age ... is to work out the soleus ... also known as the second heart.
My workouts involve all of the above plus cardio and other weight lifting.
At the very least....people should be walking a few miles, per day.
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