Low Impact Exercises to Keep You Feeling Fresh - Kissing Tree
Jun 28th, 2017

Low Impact Exercises to Keep You Feeling Fresh

Once in a while, it is important to give your body a break from hard tasks that require a lot of energy like running, sports, and other extensive gym activities. Low impact exercises are equally effective, especially for seniors. They are designed for endurance, stability, strength, and flexibility. Although there are so many of these low impact activities, they all guarantee stress reduction, injury prevention as well as reducing chances of getting hypertension. Many gyms offer them. However, you don’t necessarily have to go there to execute the exercises successfully. You can do them from the comfort of your home. Here are few examples.

1. Swimming

Swimming is one of the most efficient, easy and low-risk exercises you can do. As you move through the water, your whole body is conditioned, and stress is relieved from the bones and joints. It offers an entirely new world of endurance exercise that doesn’t require a lot of efforts, unlike many other gym exercises. Several laps in the swimming pool simultaneously stretch and strengthen the muscles in your arms, legs and the shoulders. If you want to get the best out of swimming as a low-impact exercise, you should try different strokes. This way, you can also have fun and work all the muscles in your body. It is a great way for post-menopausal women to avoid bone loss.

2. Stretching

Doing gentle stretches, whether exercising or just resting is a great way of maximizing your flexibility and range of motion. Stretches should focus on relieving stress from specific muscles especially after or in between another exercise. Stretching early in the morning after waking up, or in the evening after a long day is highly beneficial. Target areas for regular stretching include the neck, hips, calves, upper body, shoulders, arms, chest, back, ankles and legs. It sounds overwhelming, yes? Don’t worry, you can do a few of them each day and in no time, you will hit all of them without breaking a sweat. While doing them, keep in mind that you shouldn’t overwork yourself. Taking it slowly is appropriate.

3. Yoga

Yoga doesn’t necessarily involve twisting your body into complex positions. While some yoga is intense, you can reap benefits from even the basic form of the exercise. It is one of the most effective exercises that combines stretches and endurance as well as strength and stability. There are a lot of gyms offering yoga classes, and you can find one that matches your age and enroll in a beginner class.

4. Golf

Golf isn’t just a game or a fun way to socialize with other people – it is an effective low-impact activity that is tailored towards ensuring flexibility and strength. You don’t necessarily have to be an expert golfer to do this exercise, and a class to learn the basics is a good place to begin. A good instructor will help you get off to a great start by teaching you how to swing properly. It is the swinging that helps your muscles relax and also improves your mobility range. Walking the course helps you in endurance training.

There are a ton of other low impacts exercises like walking, gardening and water aerobics among others that you can do. Whichever activity you choose to do, it is important to consult your doctor and see if you are fit to handle them, or have an instructor to ensure that you are kept out of harm’s way.

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