Strengthening

Keeping You Moving

If you’re in your fifties or older you may be starting to feel the effects of the ageing process — creaky joints and a stiff neck and back. This may be the result of spending too long sitting at a desk if you are still working, or it may be that during the recent difficult times it’s been harder for you to be as active as you’d have liked.

The trouble is, it can be very easy to give in to it and think it’s just part of getting older, but it doesn’t have to be. Although you can’t change your age and halt the ageing process, there are some physiological processes that you can have some control over.

 A significant part of this involves strengthening many of the important core muscles. This doesn’t mean doing crunches to create a six-pack, in fact, many of the important core muscles are in the back of your torso. But if you don’t use these muscles they will slowly become weaker and less effective. And once you’ve reached this stage it will take much longer to get them back, so it’s vital to use them if you want to keep them.