Regular physical activity helps your body function more effectively, is proven to combat disease, and can add with weight loss.
Here are five tips to get you up and active.
1. Get creative
Exercise on land cramping your style (or your joints)? Water aerobics may be a good alternative. Exercising in water is a great low impact way to keep in shape, perfect for weary bones and joints. If getting wet isn’t your thing, yoga or tai chi are also easy on the joints yet nurturing for body and mind.
2. Group activities
Exercising in groups keeps you accountable and is a great way to keep each other motivated. If the weather isn't playing ball, chair exercise sessions indoors offer a unique way to move your body while sitting down.
3. Try something new
Routine is a positive for many reasons, but if you’re able to work in ‘trying something new’ on a weekly/fortnightly/monthly basis, learning new skills is a great way to keep not only your body, but your mind active too.
4. Walk
This may be an obvious way to stay active, but walking is often overlooked. If you find walking boring, try adding something interesting. Take your dog, the neighbour’s dog, a friend’s dog, or any other dog, for a walk. Take a camera with you to snap those beautiful evening sunsets. Even go window shopping while you walk around the mall.
5. Make it fun
Find something that you enjoy doing and do it regularly. Whether that’s walking, gardening, bowls, creating art/crafts or even volunteering, as long as you’re enjoying what you’re doing, you’ll want to keep doing it.
The bottom line – you’re never too old to stay active.