An active lifestyle is essential to stay fit and in good health as we get older. Working out regularly can also help improve the quality of life, ensuring you look and feel your best.
However, workouts are never as easy as the activity sounds.
With a strong body, you can avoid accidents, general pain, and injuries, and get to enjoy performing your favorite activities without having to worry about your physical health.
While no magic formula exists to stop aging, you can age gracefully by adopting an active lifestyle and ensuring your body stays as healthy as possible.
But it’s vital to note that not all workouts are recommended for seniors. Here are some workout ideas to stay fit, healthy, and happy in your later years.
Understand the Basics — Move at Your Own Pace
Most people see a workout as an activity that involves lifting heavy weights, running fast, and putting lots of effort. Though that’s one way to exercise, it’s not suitable for seniors.
Avoid getting pressured to engage in high impact or intense exercises. Working out doesn’t mean the same thing for seniors as it does for young people in their twenties.
Hence, consider moving at your own pace and listening to your body. When you rush through a fitness activity or a set of exercises or try to do too much too quickly, you could get injured.
For this reason, adopt a slow and steady approach; do those exercises that make you feel your best; and watch the progress you’re making gradually.
A workout plan doesn’t have to be complicated or expensive. This is why you won’t find fancy equipment in some of the best exercises.
Additionally, if you choose to buy workout gear, you can easily find the basic equipment on the market, and it’ll even be sold cheap.
By sticking to the basics and keeping things simple, you’ll find it easy to get started. Also, you can add a podcast or music to your workout so that it can be more enjoyable.
To listen to your favorite audio/songs as you engage in a workout, wear a pair of wireless headphones. (A gaming headset is also nice.)
Some Example Workouts to Get Ideas from
To start any workout, warming up is the first thing to do: Walk or jog in place for ten minutes to get your body moving.
Your aim should be to get your blood moving and warm up your muscles, thereby preparing your whole body for the workout.
One of the staple exercises that suit any age is a chair squat. By squatting over a chair, you can push your muscles. This exercise is a simple one and poses no risk of falling.
Here’s how it works:
Squat to sit in the chair. After that, stand back up without any swinging or rocking.
This activity builds strength in the legs and hips. To make the chair squat easier, use a handrail or put your hands on the thighs as a form of support.
Also, add handheld weights to make the chair squat harder. In this exercise, a decent starting point is 10–12 reps. However, you can always adjust if necessary.
When you perform side leg raises, you can enhance your balance and also build strength in your hip and leg in the process. Consider holding onto the back of a chair and standing on 1 leg.
Use a resistance band, ankle weights, or bodyweight for raising your other leg to the side. Keeping your feet parallel, lift the outside leg without tilting the torso.
In this activity, a decent starting point is 10–12 reps, but feel free to adjust if necessary.
Though lifting your arms could look extremely simple, bicep curls, overhead presses, and side arm raises are all simple techniques for developing arm strength. You can utilize a resistance band, small handheld weights, or a heavy book for building your arm strength.
This practice aims to ensure you don’t pick up the heaviest thing you can at once, since it’s a lot more beneficial to perform 10–12 reps of each raise.
Avoid picking weights that make it difficult for you to perform a minimum of 10 reps, since picking up more weight doesn’t necessarily mean you will achieve better results.
It can be difficult engaging in workouts, but considering the various benefits it provides for your general health and wellbeing, you’ll find it worthwhile. As we get older, our workout demands also change.
Hence, make use of low impact and simple exercises for staying fit, maintaining good health, and staying happy in your later years.
With Gratitude and Love
Dewvy 
