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Originally Posted by brandrea
I’ll steal this word from your post that I think is very much often overlooked…Flexibility
I’m 56 and I’ve always placed an emphasis on staying flexible. I think being limber is every bit as important as maintaining good muscle tone.
Ask me how I’m doing in 10 years  |
I can't agree with this more. When I hit the late 40s and suffered a serious injury that required surgery, I was down hard for 6 months. Once I was cleared hot to work out again, I followed the doc's orders specifically. I stopped with the heavy weights and long distance runs. I focused on flexibility and mobility while maintaining cardio.
Cardio was required to feel like I accomplished a work out. But instead of an hour of cardio starting cold and going full tilt, I modified my workouts to include 10 minutes of serious focused warm-up, 35 mins of cardio, followed up by 15 minutes of pilates/yoga/flexibilty/mobility. It has made all of the difference in how I feed during and after the workouts.