There May Not Be Much Left Of You When It Comes Time To Retire
What an awful sobering thought. You may work all those years and be looking forward to when you retire so you can do all the things you have not had time for because of family and career commitments. Even though you might feel you have done everything right in the end your body can let you down and prevent you from doing the things you had planned and looked forward to.You may not be able to take that trip you always dreamed about. All that work around the house you had expected to do. What about the golf, swimming, hiking, tennis and the exercise program - maybe? Or even if you had no particular plans to be active in your retirement years what if they are spoilt by chronic back, hip or other joint pain? You may even end up with other health issues that will demand your time, money and attention. It seems strange that many people plan financially for this time after the finish of our working life to make sure our needs will be taken care of. We write wills to plan for our families needs and even pay professionals to make sure it is done right. But how often do we even give our health and wellness a second thought?Where does our health and wellness fit into this future planning of our life and our finances? Even if retirement is years or even decades away, it is useful to ask the question to ourselves: What are we doing today, tomorrow and the next day so we can be assured of a physically functional future?You see, what you do now right throughout your adult years has an incredible impact on your health later in life. A proper exercise program not only benefits us today, but is an investment in our future. Unfortunately as many as six out of ten adults focus only on the present. Just getting through each day and each week and they don't even consider how their exercise decisions (or lack of them) will affect them down the road.Our modern society does not help as most of us simply are not required to physically do much anymore. We sit a lot - in our cars, at our jobs and back home on the couch maintaining our addiction to television. But our bodies are made to run, to lift, to reach and stretch, to jump, bend down and be active - very active.Without this activity the human body goes into 'shutdown mode' and decays and deteriorates far quicker than it needs too. And the older one gets the faster this happens unless something is done on a regular basis to prevent it. And that something is a proper exercise program that contains mostly strength training exercise. If this is a new concept to you it will pay to have a fitness professional help you get started. It is important that you not only do the right exercises, but they need to be done at the right level of intensity (degree of difficulty) otherwise they will not work in the best way. Your program also needs to be changed regularly and monitored so it can be tweaked if necessary.If you own a body that hurts it becomes an intrusion in our lives. If it hurts every time you go up or down stairs, or have to bend down to pick something up and you cannot be active it sucks the life energy from you slowly but surely. To avoid this happening action on your part is needed - it will not happen on its own.What we are all after is a fully functional body that doesn't hurt so we can easily participate in lots of different activities regardless of our age. A body that allows us to do all the things we enjoy and want to do for as long as we possibly can so we can enjoy our retirement years to the fullest.
There May Not Be Much Left Of You When It Comes Time To Retire
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