Think beyond the scales and the years. Fitness is for all ages.

Write a list of your strengths today, says wellness coach Fiona Cosgrove. Then write “I can use my [insert strength here] to achieve my goals”.

I think my strength today was finding all these great links that give exercise and fitness advice for seniors. 
Share them with a senior you know who is interested in fitness.


Exercise for Seniors - Aging Gracefully
Improve your quality of life and age gracefully with exercise and strength training for seniors from your About Exercise Guide

Total Body Strength for Seniors
Try this basic total body strength training workout designed especially for seniors.Sponsored Links

Total Body Stretch for Seniors
This basic stretching workout will help you improve flexibility, balance and increase your range of motion for better mobility.

Exercise and Arthritis
Carol Eustice, About.com's Arthritis Guide, tells you how gentle exercise can relieve joint stiffness and pain, and improve mobility for people with arthritis.

Combat the Effects of Aging
Wouldn't it be nice to sail through your golden years without disability and disease? There's no reason you can't stay healthy as you age

.Exercise and Diabetes
Diabetes is a big concern these days, mainly because so many of us either have it or are at risk for getting it. Find out how to get fit and avoid Type 2 diabetes.

Exercise and the Heart
Richard Fogoros, About.com's Heart Disease Guide, gives an indepth look at exercise and how it can strengthen your heart.

Growing Older and Gaining Weight
Aging is a natural process that we can't control...or can we? While studies show that we gain at least a pound of fat and lose up to 1/2 pound of muscle each year (starting in the 30's), other studies tell us it doesn't have to be that way. Learn how to maintain your healthy body as you get older.

Senior Health
About.com's Senior Health guide gives you lots of good reasons to workout. Whether it's under doctor's orders or because you're ready to start feeling better, Marian Eure can help you figure out the right way to exercise.

Chair Dancing
Okay, maybe you find it hard to believe you can get a good workout while sitting in a chair. This website will convince you otherwise, proving that you can strengthen your body and increase your endurance no matter what your age or fitness level.

Fully Fit Lifestyles
Fully Fit Lifestyles provides fitness programs specifically for women over 40. Get information and resources about the specific changes you're dealing with from this experienced group of experts.

Guidelines for a Healthier Lifestyle
Scientific research for older Americans shows that exercise really is your best resource against age-related illnesses and conditions. Get the latest facts about exercise for the older generation at this informative website.

Seniors and Weight Training
Find out all the reasons older adults should be lifting weights. One important one? Those who lift weights have greater bone density.

Sports, Exercise & Fitness for Seniors
Did you know that "[f]or every inch your waistline exceeds the size of your chest, you can deduct two years from your life"? Get basic information at this site about physical fitness and how it can help you strengthen your bones and get rid of that potbelly.  

Beautiful spring day today :-).

I was up too late to make the morning walk with Reg and Indigo this morning so I strapped on the pedometer and the voice activated tape recorder and got stuck into a big bathroom clean up including ceiling, walls and all those mirrors and clocked up 480 steps while working on my novel through dictation on to the recorder.  lol, All that doing several things at once training women get when running a business and caring for a family coming into good use for me now.

Then I walked around the block which involvements our lake and visiting neighbours, talking roses, novel, aboriginal culture and dreamtime as these will feature in my novel so I guess my walk was both exercise and research for my writing, doing two things at once is how i am getting so much done.

Came home to an easy meal made from the left over roast from last night, I had avocado on linsoy bread open sandwich with pork.   I plan on having some unsweetened low fat natural fruit yogurt for desert and a cup of tea with skim milk for a satisfying supper as I plan to work though until about 1 am writing my novel.  lol anyone would think I was on  hgh   the difference in me this week to last month before my opp.

After dinner I spent a couple of active hours in the studio blocking in a painting of my roses.  I plan to work on this tomorrow.  Then I still had 1,200 steps left to get to the 10,000 so I did a very fast walk near jogging pace in the treadmill until I exceeded the 10,000 steps.   

So pleased :-). 9 days since my operation, the removal of the lump in the flank muscle in on my back and the swelling has gone down, the wound is healing, feels comfortable and for the first time In months I can throw myself into incidental activity and exercise without my back muscles swelling up painfully.   I feel like I am right back on track again and able to do the actions I need to achieve the goals I want. :-)

 With only 5 weeks to go until National Novel Writing Month, begins I need to be totally organized and have a fitness plan compatible with a very full creative work day, fully in place before November 1st.

The physical exercise I need to do each day, I am managing to fit into a busy life, by striving to do it with or near Reg while I do my carer duties and keep my eye on him.  I can do this as housework, gardening and walks/jogging along the river and doing my Wii Fit, Biggest Loser full body workout and the yoga for weight loss sessions.

I have given up any ideas I had of going to gym, it isn’t the gym work out that is the main problem it is the 20 minutes’ drive to get there, that is 40 minutes x 6 times a week, or  4 hours a week wasted as commuting time. This has proved once more to be too long to leave him alone and it does eat too much into my available time. Now if I spent that same amount of time, gardening or cleaning  my house I would be miles ahead in work and fitness, so I have decided I cannot justify gym, financially nor from a time management point of view.

Currently my exercise management is that I have 'active afternoons', this includes incidental exercise and planned physical activity.  In the heat of summer I will switch this to mornings.  With plans to find time to write and the multiple rewrites of a novel ahead of my I may need to allocate an 7-8 hour day to that task and fit exercise in blocks in and around that writing time.  This time management plan I commit to get into place by this time next week. It is going to be important to have it entrenched as a habit before November 1, when I begin the first draft of a 100,000 word novel and probably a year or more's curative work.

Kathy Shell is acting the role of the person she wants to become and so is that person NOW.

The above sentence is self explanatory but here is some more one line waffles on the subject of acting the part.

'Believe and you will achieve."
"Believe you are already..."
Just BELIEVE."
Believe in YOURSELF."
"Believe"

I am happy today because I believe I am all I want to be and I intend to act the role of that person and so I am that person.

lol

Hey I have acted like this all week and it's working for me :-).  Change has to take plane in your mind before it takes place in life.  Instead of thinking of why things are not, cannot happen I am acting like they do happen and theses changes are happening. 

I am applying this across 5 areas of my life.

1/Creative achievement
2/Healthy portion controlled enjoyable eating.
3/Physical activity including cardio, strength training, stretching.
4/Budget, income expenditure balance
5/Rest and recreation plus 7-8 hours sleep.