27/07/2021
Regaining Flexibility After 60:
No matter our age, we all want to be flexible!
Flexibility is an essential component of good health and fitness and is especially vital for seniors.
I don’t mean the kind of flexibility of being able to do the splits.
I mean the type of flexibility of being unrestricted in your movements. Being able to move all your joints fluidly and getting about with ease in your daily life. All without feeling any painful niggles that come with tight muscles and stiff joints.
You may think back to your earlier days when you could touch your toes with ease. Maybe you were capable of doing the splits.
Nowadays, you might be noticing you’re just not as flexible as you once were.
The tasks in your daily life may be getting more difficult to do, like bending down to (or getting up off) the floor. Or, reaching high above, or behind your head.
Or maybe you’re just noticing your joints aren’t straightening or moving, in the way they once did.
Our bodies are going to age; it’s inevitable.
With an ageing body comes decreased flexibility, especially if we forget what’s necessary to keep ourselves flexible and moving well.
By improving your flexibility, not only will you be improving the range of motion in each of your joints, but you’re going to find yourself moving around with greater ease. All those daily movements will seem so much easier, and you’ll feel yourself becoming free of painful niggles.
You’ll have improved posture, improved balance and also decrease your chances of picking up a future injury.
Not only this, we all know how good we feel after we stretch out our body.
Stretching can help in decreasing tension and stress, resulting in a positive mindset, relaxed body and feeling good!