Anti-aging: The Right Exercise

Exercise can be the cure for many a common ailment, and also, in fact, for some life-threatening diseases. The right exercise can restore your youthful appearance and vitality. 

Let's examine WHY you need to exercise. The energy requirement to  maintain essential  basic functions such as breathing, beating of the heart, and  regulation of body temperature, is referred to as BMR (basal metabolic rate). The BMR decreases with age. And, as a result, as you age, less energy is required to keep the same functions going. This also explains why, as you age, you require less food... and, why you tend to gain weight if you do not reduce your food consumption! 

The BMR can, however, be increased by exercise. 

A regular exercise regimen, using a combination of aerobic and resistance training techniques, strengthens the muscles, helps to control weight-gain, and improves overall activity of all body systems.  

Consider, what happens when you stop exercising! Your muscles shrink and get smaller. That decreases the BMR, which in turn allows fat to accumulate. This changes the ratio of muscle to fat in your body composition.

Fat and muscle have totally different properties.

Fat is a triglyceride. In order to shed fat you need to perform cardiovascular exercises and train your muscles. That will increase the resting metabolic rate and maximize fat loss. However, there is no way to determine just from where the fat is going to come off. 

Muscle is a protein. And, if you have the knowledge to properly select your exercise regimen, you can control the shape and mass of your  muscles. The body has two types of muscle fibers; the slow twitch muscle fibersand the fast twitch muscle fibers. The fast twitch fibers are strength fibers and they can grow larger. Slow twitch fibers are endurance-based fibers which do not have the potential to increase in size. By nature, any aerobic activity will use slow twitch endurance-based fibers. Fast twitch fibers are activated by anaerobic activities such as weight training and sprinting.  

Physical activity is known to cut the risk factor for common diseases including diabetes, cardio-vascular problems and cumulative trauma disorders. It lowers age-related loss of bone and muscle density.

Exercising regularly is known to prevent osteoporosis, improve elasticity of the lung and heart muscles, contribute to general health  and well-being.  

And, there is good news for the 50+ age group, who are considered to be in the high-risk category for cancers.  

Recent research has thrown up solid evidence that regular exercise can  sharply reduce the incidence of cancers. And you can start getting active at any age in order to reduce cancer risk, advocates Dr. Christine Friedenreich, of the Alberta Cancer Board, Canada, who has assessed the reduction in risk factor as 35% less for breast cancer in post-menopausal women, and a high 50% lowered risk for colon cancer. 

Ongoing research studies for prostrate, lung and endometrial cancers are expected to reveal similar lowered incidence of risk. 

In short, research has proved that exercise prolongs life!  

Exercise is vital! But what kind of exercise? Now, it is up to you to choose the regimen that will prove the most beneficial. 

Yoga is highly recommended as it works on the body as well as reduces stress and calms the mind. 

An ancient Age Reversal Tibetan Yoga technique is built arounda set of movements that combine muscle training postures with aerobic activity.  

These Yoga-type movements are devised to control breath in such a way as to achieve massage of the internal organs and manipulation of the energy pathways that regulate the neuro-endocrine system.   

In esoteric terms, the technique gets your seven major Chakrasspinning at their optimum speeds. 

When you practice this yoga, as thousands across the world are doing, it will result in lifelong benefits, including regaining your youthful appearance and vigor.