How exercise helps older adults stay healthy and independent
Live Forever Club - 13-Jan-2025Starting slow and building up is key for older people to get stronger safely
Exercise
Exercise News
Olympic athletes shows how intense exercise can slow epigenetic ageing
Live Forever Club - 10-Dec-2024While overtraining can cause harm, moderate activity benefits everyone
Four minutes of daily effort halves heart attack risk in women
The Guardian - 03-Dec-2024Short bursts of high-intensity activity offer big cardiovascular benefits for those short on time
Muscle matters: building strength for healthy ageing
The Conversation (UK) - 27-Nov-2024How exercise and nutrition can help you stay active, independent, and well as you grow older
Fitness over fatness: rethinking health risks beyond BMI
Independent - 21-Nov-2024Heart and lung fitness outweighs BMI in predicting mortality risk, new research shows
Exercise Resources
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The Align Method
The Align Method: 5 Easy Steps to Transform Your Posture, Age-Proof Your Body, and Sharpen Your Mind, a book by Aaron Alexander
Sod Sitting, Get Moving!
Book from the Sod series about Getting Active in Your 60s, 70s and Beyond written by Muir Gray and Diana Moran
YOU: The Owner’s Manual Podcast
A podcast based on the bestselling book of the same name by Mehmet Oz and Michael Roizen
The Body’s Fuel Sources
Information on body's fuel sources, carbohydrate, protein, and fat that each play distinct roles in fueling exercise
Non-vigorous physical activity and all-cause mortality: systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies.
Information about relation with activity and reduced mortality
Exercise Blog Posts
12-Jul-2024
Are Wimbledon champions really getting older?
Has this century seen extraordinarily long-lived Wimbledon champions, or are winners over 30 years of age the new normal?
