STRENGTH For Women's
Fitness Over 50
The benefits of strength training after 50
Your muscular strength can make a big difference. Strong muscles help you stay independent and make everyday activities feel easier, like getting up from a chair, climbing stairs, and carrying groceries. Keeping your muscles strong can help with your balance and prevent falls and fall-related injuries.
Why Building Muscle + Strength Is important for Women over 50
Building muscle means that you are a strong independent women who has strong bones, increased stamina, able managing chronic conditions, controlling your weight and even can make your brain sharper.
Builds bone density
Unexpected falls put countless older people in the hospital every year. An 8-year-old puts a cast on his arm and gets back to playing in 8 weeks. An 80-year-old isn’t quite so fortunate. The ramifications of broken bones can be devastating. Strength training can help.2Decreases found that yoga improves motor function and balance after having a stroke. Three-quarters of all stroke survivors suffer from falls (which could break bones or end lives), so this is welcome news. Try out the yoga balances for beginners below if you’d like to move with grace.
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Lowers the risk of chronic disease
Not only will strength training help save off many chronic diseases, but it also helps lessen the symptoms of issues you may currently have. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends strength training for most older adults to help lessen the symptoms of the following chronic conditions: arthritis, osteoporosis, diabetes, obesity, back pain, depression.3
Sleep Better When you workout.
A study by the Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School observed the effects of yoga on patients suffering from insomnia. They practiced a 45-minute yoga sequence, including deep-breathing and meditation, every night for eight weeks. Participants reported statistically significant improvements in sleep efficiency, total sleep time, total wake time, number of awakenings, and quality of sleep.
Strength, Yoga And Pilates : A Powerful Combination For Women over 50!
Yoga concentrates on large, functional movements to increase our overall strength and flexibility in the spine and limbs. Pilates on the other hand, focuses on building a deep core strength – a powerhouse – and correct muscle activation, which is amazing for alleviating back pain, injury prevention and creating a long, lean body type.
Both have transformational health benefits and have been proven to reduce stress, anxiety, rehabilitate certain injuries and improve awareness of our bodies and emotions through breath and movement.
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