Tag: Aging

Two health risks that never go away, until we die

Two bikes in a Florida driveway
Two risks, two bikes. Use them or let them rust.

 

Two health risks that never go away, until we die.

  1. Risk of getting hurt from exercising as we age
  2. Risk from getting hurt from not exercising, doing routine things around the house

While exercise requires time and energy, so does the recovery from an injury sustained from carrying a basket of laundry, or reaching high up on a shelf.

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Those who can walk but don’t are the physically illiterate of our age

Youth soccer player injured down on the field
Fall down seven, get up eight

 

Watching aging adults who no longer walk easily, or without assistance, the mystery is this, when they could walk and didn’t, didn’t they foresee the atrophy?

The genius of communication is the ability to be both totally honest and totally kind at the same time. ~ John Powell

So now, knowing this, what do we do? I wrestle constantly with this question.

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We’ve covered mental and physical, now scoot over to emotional (spiritual), click go.

 

In youth we actually thought this would never happen to us

aging well
at 70+ she is more active than most 30, 40, and 50-somethings

 

In youth we actually thought this would never happen to us:

We’d get old and our hair would turn gray.

This has massive ramifications with our current thinking that we will never be confined to a chair because we are too frail to walk.

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