Endurance activities, often referred to as aerobic, increase your breathing and heart rates. These activities help keep you healthy, improve your fitness, and help you perform the tasks you need to do every day, according to the National Institute on Aging (NIA). Endurance exercises improve the health of your heart, lungs, and circulatory system. They also can delay or prevent many diseases that are common in older adults such as diabetes, colon and breast cancers, heart disease, and others. Physical activities that build endurance include:
- Brisk walking or jogging
- Yard work (mowing, raking)
- Dancing
- Swimming
- Biking
- Climbing stairs or hills
- Playing tennis or basketball
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That’s a good link under the Biking heading. But just a thought for those with Parkinson’s in that they can’t walk quickly. But Jean does have access to a stationary bike, a Theracycle, and is starting to use a REDjuvenator. Are you familiar with either of these?
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Thanks for the info, Paul. No, I am not familiar with either of those. I do remember liking the old Schwinn Airdyne bike in my health club some years ago. The front wheel spun and threw air up on you as you pedaled. Like riding in real life.
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Here are the links to both products. Needless to say I have no commercial interest in the companies!
First the Theracycle: https://www.theracycle.com
and next the REDjevenator, a source of Red Light Therapy: https://catalyticcolor.com/redjuvenator-light-therapy/
Who knows if one of your readers finds these products of interest.
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Thanks for sharing, Paul. The Theracycle looks brilliant. As a person who has suffered mobility hampering injuries, I can appreciate how useful this is. My great fear is losing some or all of my mobility. That’s something money can’t buy.
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Yes, mobility, sight and to a lesser extent hearing, are all vital in our old age. Jeannie uses the Theracycle most evenings when her legs get restless, if you know what I mean. I’m just about to turn 76 and Jean, in a couple of weeks, 72. It’s the reason that both of us take our health and fitness very seriously. This getting old lark is the shits! (Pardon the expression!)
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It’s fascinating to realize that our mobility which we have taken for granted every day of our lives is suddenly not a given.
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And it seems to happen very quickly!
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