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To a large extent how well you remain and how well you feel for the rest of your life is under your control and you have the power to boost your chances of living a healthier, happier and longer life. We would all love to find that mythic pill or potion that eradicates wrinkles, diminishes our risk of heart attack and averts dementia while ensuring that we live to be 100. A strong, disease free, fit and active, happy, healthy 100 year old that is. Alas, getting older is still a basic fact of the life cycle, and the human mortality rate still remains at 100 percent. But we can exert some control over our health span and ultimately our life span. Studies have shown that about 25 percent of how we age is determined by genetics; the other 75 percent by what we do and don't do on a daily basis especially in the way of proper exercise and good nutrition. Despite the constant promotion of products claimed to extend or increase longevity and prolong vigor there is nothing you can buy in a box or a bottle, no pills or potions have been shown to extend anything other than your credit card balance. Most of us are born with the genetic wherewithal to live to well over 100 years but the challenge is to prevent premature disease from taking us down before that. There are a few key lifestyle choices you can make that can reduce the risk significantly of the diseases most likely to kill or disable you: heart disease, cancer, diabetes or dementia. Reams of research suggest regular proper physical activity slows down and can even reverse bodily decline. Rigorous activity that works the muscular system helps circulate blood and therefore oxygen throughout the body's tissues and organs, delivering nourishment and removing impurities. If the exercise is intense enough (degree of effort involved) it triggers hormones which instruct the body's cells to repair, replace, renew and rebuild. So, simple strength training exercise can work its magic right down to cellular level to strengthen not only muscles but bones and all of the body's systems including the all important immune system. This is where exercising for health really pays off and it can protect you from a nasty disease that can shorten your life. Just 2-3 sessions each week of a proper exercise program made up of mostly strength training exercise is all that is needed for a multitude of health benefits. But it is important that you seek the help of a fitness professional to set up your program and monitor your results. Your program needs to be regularly changed and tweaked to ensure you continue to progress and receive the fastest and most effective results. We all should consider ourselves very lucky to be living in an age where this knowledge is available and we all have access to a healthier, longer life. Our parents and especially our grandparents were not so lucky and endured up to 20 years of weakness, frailty, disability and loss of independence. You have a choice about how you age, you can do it traditionally with the normal expected downward spiral of physical and mental decline or you can take action and be vital, strong, well and youthful with the power of strengthening exercise. Think about how you want to live the last third of your life? Your future hinges on the lifestyle choices you make right now – today. Why not enjoy extra years of healthy, productive, ageless living that are right at your fingertips?
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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