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4HE !GE FACTORˆ4RAINING FOR 3ENIORS

(OW OLD IS TOO OLD ) HEAR PEOPLE OF FORTY TELL ME THAT THEY ARE TOO
OLD FOR THIS KIND OF TRAINING BUT WHEN THEY TRY IT THEY ARE OFTEN THE MORE

COMMITTED AND SATISlED WITH THEIR IMPROVED lTNESS LEVELS .OT THAT MANY
YEARS AGO lTNESS CLASSES FOR THE OVER S CONSISTED OF GENTLE EXERCISES
MUCH OF IT PERFORMED WHILE SEATED A FAR CRY FROM THE FRIENDS ) KNOW WHO

STILL DO MARTIAL ARTS SWIM FOR MILES DAILY RUN NOT JOG TIMES A WEEK
AND WEIGHT TRAIN REGULARLY !LL OF THEM MAINTAIN mEXIBILITY BY STRETCHING
REGULARLY

)F YOU ARE REASONABLY lT WITH NO DEBILITATING INJURIES AND FULL MEDICAL
CLEARANCE AND ARE PREPARED TO TAKE A PATIENT SENSIBLE VIEW ABOUT YOUR

lTNESS ASPIRATIONS THERE IS A GREAT DEAL OF BOXING lTNESS YOU CAN PARTICIPATE
IN AND DERIVE BENElT FROM

! ONCE A WEEK SESSION OF LIGHT SKIPPING PUNCHING BAGS AND PADS AND
ESPECIALLY WEIGHT TRAINING JOGGING OR RUNNING SHOULD NOT OVER EXTEND
ELDERLY PEOPLE #ONSIDER THE VAST NUMBER OF AND YEAR OLDS WHO

CANTER THROUGH THE ,ONDON -ARATHON EVEN MORE IN THE .EW 9ORK AND
"OSTON MARATHONS &LEXIBILITY TRAINING IS A MUST FOR THE OLDER TRAINER THE
TERM hUSE IT OR LOSE ITv IS APT IN THIS RESPECT #OUNTLESS TESTS CONDUCTED

BY UNIVERSITIES IN THE 53 SHOW THAT BOTH MEN AND WOMEN CAN MAKE
IMPRESSIVE STRENGTH GAINS BY RESISTANCE TRAINING EVEN INTO THEIR S AND
S -ODERATION IS THE KEY WORK COMFORTABLY WITHIN YOUR LIMITS AT lRST

5NFORTUNATELY INJURY COMES ALL TOO EASILY TO THE OLDER PERSON AND TAKES
WHAT SEEMS FOREVER TO CLEAR UP $ON T WRITE YOURSELF OFF AFTER ALL THIS KIND
OF TRAINING SHOULD GIVE YOU RENEWED CONlDENCE AND SELF ESTEEM $ON T

WORRY ABOUT WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK 9OU WILL PROBABLY GAIN THE GRUDGING
ADMIRATION OF MANY YOUNGER TRAINERS WHO ARE HOPING THAT THEY WILL BE AS
lT AS YOU WHEN THEY GET TO YOUR AGE 4AKE THE LONG VIEW AND BE CONTENT TO

BUILD UP SLOWLY IN SMALL INCREMENTS YOU ARE UNLIKELY TO BE BORED