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How would you like to turn back the clock a decade or more and recapture the strength, vitality, looks and energy of younger days? If this sounds like a good proposition to you, then get ready to put your muscles to work with a program of strength training exercise. With the emergence of new technologies, we humans are heading towards the dream of keeping oneself young regardless of our age. Researchers have discovered that at the core of the Fountain of Youth are the strengthening effects of proper exercise. Unfortunately aging is a process that happens to all of us and at around age thirty to thirty-five years we begin to notice the first telltale signs, the strands of gray hair, tiny wrinkles appearing along with a slight sagging of facial features. As the years pass by this aging process continues relentlessly - stiffer joints, dimmer vision, more gray hair, aches and pains along with a loss of muscle tone and increased body fat. As we see the same thing happening to other people around us we start to accept it as the way it should be. It becomes easy to accept our declining faculties as just being part of getting older and the danger lies when we start to think of ourselves as old. The change in mental outlook further accelerates the process and as we look in the mirror, year after year, we gradually begin to look, feel and act progressively older with our mirror image reinforcing our mindset. Longevity has increased however, that factor that has not changed is the number of years one has to live with disability and disease. It is still an average of ten years and we are now starting to understand that it is just not the aging process that causes these ten or more years of a lessened quality of life. It is something so simple it is beyond belief that we are all not aware of it. It is our own lack of enough strength building and maintaining activity that causes us to get older far before our time. After all, we know that the human body can easily live to 110 years or more. The number along with the quality of your years is mostly determined by the choices you make every day - especially proper strengthening exercise and nutrition. It is amazing how many people blame genetics for physical disability or developing disease and premature death. It is easy to blame genetics as then somehow it takes the heat off some of our poor lifestyle choices. It's as if the things we do and don't do on a daily basis don't really help us to achieve and maintain excellent physical condition or allow us to deteriorate and decay. So just because your mother and father or grandparents died at an old age does not mean that you will or if they died at a young age, doesn't mean that you will also. Besides, if you compare living a long life according to our cultural standard, a long life to you may be years shorter than what it actually could have been with better health, fitness and nutrition choices. And the most important question of all - were those longer years lived with vitality, high activity and independence, or were those last years lived with infirmity, disease and reliance on others? We now know that aging is not simply decay; it is an accumulation of choices made every single day throughout the years and consequences that result from those choices.
It is time to ask yourself 'What are your choices now and what will be your consequences later?"
Do you want to discover the secret to rejuvenating your body and improving the quality of your life? Download my free ebook "Ive Found the Fountain of Youth- Let Me Show You Too!" here: Ways To Look Younger For Free Fitness Report here Fitness Weight Loss Carolyn Hansen is a certified fitness expert and fitness center owner who coaches clients to look and feel younger.
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