Both genetics and environmental factors play a part in age-related changes to our structure and function, but there are things you can do to ensure that you stay healthy, mobile, maintain quality of life, and even increase your life expectancy.
There is a saying, 'if you don't use it you'll lose it' so physical activity is vitally important for maintaining functional ability to perform both basic and complex movement tasks.
There is a saying, 'if you don't use it you'll lose it' so physical activity is vitally important for maintaining functional ability to perform both basic and complex movement tasks.
Training should include flexibility and mobility work, resistance training (which will offset age-associated muscle loss and also encourage maintenance of bone density), aerobic conditioning, power development (medicine balls are useful here) and proprioceptive (balance) work.
Caloric restriction is also implicated in the research in warding off a variety of age-related pathologies, but a more palatable alternative is just to ensure you get plenty of exercise!
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