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What exercises help to increase muscle tone as we age?
Aging Well | Last Active: Mar 12, 2023 | Replies (129)Comment receiving replies
One more - reaching/stretching as you fold laundry. I throw it in the middle of the big bed, place the piles all around, then fold & stow as fast as I can. A week of laundry is about a 15 min workout. I also do "aerobic cleaning" when I clean, sweep, mop, vacuum & dust. I can do my 2 BR house in 30 minutes if nobody is in the way.
Sue
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Hi Sue,
You do exactly what I have been doing for so many years. It has gotten to the point that I don’t usually think about it…it’s so automatic. I even make separate trips out to the garage just to get that little walk in. At the gas station pump I do step ups while waiting for the fill up.
Yup some stare and chuckle. Walking out of the supermarket with 2 bags…I use them as weights lifting up and down. There are no places that are off limits for me…usually.
Stretching is my favorite. We humans don’t move enough and automation takes a lot of the blame.
“Alexia turn the lamp on.” I want to hear Alexia say…” oh turn it on yourself..”
FL Mary