Stretching helps to reverse aging



I didn't care to work out on machines or wish to join a gym. I stumbled across a stretching workout while watching an exercise special on public television and decided to give it a try. Although I've always been a physically active person, I was looking for a way to build and maintain my upper body strength. Daily walking is great for cardio fitness, but it does not provide a full body workout.
I was pleasantly surprised at how easy stretching was and soon I was doing it daily, with great benefit to my body and health.
As we age, our bodies naturally lose mobility and flexibility unless we give ourselves a boost by regularly working all of our muscles.
Low mobility and decreasing agility slows us down and makes it hard to do simple things such as reaching into a high cupboard, or even getting in and out of a car. Our posture starts to sag.
But there is no need to accept these losses and just give on our youth and vitality.
Miranda Esmonde-White, a Canadian dancer and fitness expert has developed an amazing series of stretching workouts called that anyone can do without the need to hire a personal trainer, buy equipment or join a fitness center.
Essentrics is a lot like swimming or cross-country skiing in that it utilizes and therefore strengthens all 650 muscles and 206 bones of the human body.
Essentrics is a flowing, fluid routine that is similar to dance. I found it to be much more enjoyable than yoga, and noticed benefits to my body within days.
Aging Backwards is the most recent installment of Essentrics, available both as a book and DVD series. There are four components to the Aging Backwards program that address various aspects of our physical needs: posture, pain-relief, mobility and bone-strengthening.  The gentle stretches of these exercises are age appropriate and suitable for persons of any level of physical activity to do safely at home.

Miranda's Aging Backwards book provides an excellent detailed explanation of the exercise physiology and benefits of the workouts which is a great companion to the DVD series; while the DVDs present much of the material in condensed form through the author's narration.

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