Fitness For the Golden Years

Getting Old Lessons

Five Lessons to Be Learned From Aging

“Aging” – “Take every birthday with a grain of salt. This works much better if the salt accompanies a large margarita.”

1. Things really can Get Better with Age

“By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.” – Bill Vaughan

2. Never Underestimate the Power of Change

Being a Grandparent is a life changing experience, and you can make your own House Rules!

3. Look Good Feel Good 

4. Attitude Is So Important

5. Fitness

“So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.” ~ A.J.Materi

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming… ‘Wow! What a ride!’

Enjoy life!

“Growing old is compulsory – growing up is optional.” – Bob Monkhouse

My Kind of Exercise Program

Have you exercised today?

What a clever exercise program! 

Final Word on Diet, Nutrition and Health

1. The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.

2. The Mexicans eat a lot of fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.

3. The Chinese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.

4. The Italians drink a lot of red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans..

5. The Germans drink a lot of beer and eat lots of sausages and fats and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.

CONCLUSION:

Eat and drink what you like. Speaking English is apparently what kills you.

My New Year’s Resolutions for Diet and Exercise Fail Again

2007: I will get my weight down below 180 pounds.

2008: I will follow my new diet religiously until I get below 200 pounds.

2009: I will develop a realistic attitude about my weight.

2010: I will work out 3 days a week.

2011: I will try to drive past a gym at least once a week.

2012: I will take the stairs once and awhile

2013: Repeat 2007′s resolution….

MY NEW CHRISTMAS FITNESS PROGRAM

Life Expectancy Calculator

How Long Will You Live?

Click Here: Life Expectancy Calculator

This tool is designed to help you understand how certain behaviours like smoking, alcohol, food, exercise and stress level can affect life expectancy.

The calculator doesn’t guarantee accuracy and can’t account for people with pre-existing medical conditions. But, in general, it reveals how behaviour, such as the amount of exercise you get, can affect life expectancy.

Proud Canadian Joke ~ Happy Canada Day

A recent study found

the average Canadian walks

about 900 miles a year.

Another study found

Canadians drink,

on average,

22 gallons of beer a year.    That means,

on average,

Canadians get about 41 miles to the gallon.

Kind Of Makes You Proud To Be Canadian,

doesn’t it??!!

Note: Measurements are Imperial Measures (because the the studies were done by Americans!)

900

miles (statute) is equal to

1,448.41

kilometers.

• 22
  gallons (US) is equal to

  83.28

  litres

miles (statute) is equal to

65.98

kilometers.

17.5 km/litres

 Happy Canada Day

Weekly Fitness Routine – My Version of a Workout

The Doctor told me, I should start an exercise program. Not Wanting

to harm this old body, I’ve devised the following:

Monday

Beat around the bush

Jump to conclusions

Climb the walls

Wade through the morning paper

Tuesday

Drag my heels

Push my luck

Make mountains out of mole hills

Hit the nail on the head

Wednesday

Bend over backwards

Jump on the Band Wagon

Run around in circles

Thursday

Advise the President on how to run the country

Toot my own horn

Pull out all the stops

Add fuel to the fire

Friday

Open a can of worms

Put my foot in my mouth

Start the ball rolling

Go over the edge

Saturday

Pick up the pieces.

Sunday

Kneel in prayer

Bow my head in thanksgiving

Uplift my hands in praise

Hug someone and encourage them.

Whew! What a workout!

funny emails

Chocolate Can Help You Be Thinner

SWEET!

Best news I’ve heard in years!

Especially around Easter time.

What’s the best way to stay thin?

A new study finds it’s

and

eating a healthy diet full of – chocolate

So should you start adding a bar of chocolate to your daily diet?

Researchers say it’s too soon to say.

I disagree!

Better to be safe than sorry!

Even though chocolate can be loaded with calories, it’s full of antioxidants and other ingredients that may promote weight loss, the researchers said.

What kind of chocolate is best? ~ dark chocolate, because of its bitter flavor,  may suppress appetite whereas sweet chocolate may stimulate it.

The study was performed by scientists at the University of California, La Jolla.

How much chocolate should you eat each day?

 About 1 oz or 28-gram portion of dark chocolate, or add cocoa powder to your food or coffee just once a day.

Advice For an Old Athlete

Advice to an old guy… an absolute heart-breaker.

An old guy was working out in the gym when he spotted a sweet young thing…

He asked the trainer that was near-by, “What machine in here

should I use to impress that sweet thing over there?”

“I would try the ATM in the lobby.”