No Pain. No Gain – is so not the rule for good senior health and fitness!
For seniors who already have pain that they are trying to heal, the prospect of purposefully adding even more pain and discomfort makes taking physical exercise seem like a bad joke and totally unreasonable.
The idea that we should feel pain after we exercise may be good for military boot camps that want to create soldiers out of young men, but as seniors, there should be a way to work around extreme exercise and there is!
Here is a useful mini guide explaining ways to safer, pain free senior fitness how you can actually enjoy your daily physical exercise
Swimming is popular activity that is highly recommended for no pain, with gain exercising. Being in the water relieves muscle tension, pain and swelling from arthritis, and lets your body perform resistance exercise with little tension on your joints.
It is still possible to overexert yourself and feel sore the next day, but the water makes the chances of a successful and painless workout much more possible.
Some hospitals have even built swimming pools or co-opted with gyms for pool use because...