To tone your body … and your brain!
Today, we are living longer and longer in good health. It’s no secret that a great life expectancy is based on maintaining physical and cognitive activity.
On the sport side, its benefits on the health of seniors are no longer to be demonstrated. In addition to slowing down the decline in cognitive functions, regular practice allows you to maintain cardiovascular endurance, and maintain muscle and bone capital while protecting against certain disorders such as death. © pressure. The World Health Organization recommends that people over 65 have 150 minutes of moderate intensity endurance activity or at least 75 minutes of sustained intensity endurance activity. week.
Taking care of your well-being is the second secret to continuing to stimulate your mind and keep your brain toned. How? ‘Or’ What ? Through cerebral activities and workshops that help manage emotions and maintain balance between body and mind, such as meditation, yoga, tai chi, sophrology.
Taking care of yourself is a daily practice. Gymnastics that can be put in place in the morning, at the first light of day. Many adults, more or less young, take advantage of this morning energy to indulge in well-being rituals. Isalou Beaudet-Regen, author of “The magic of the morning”, slips an idea of a program to do each morning:
1h30 to be in shape in the morning
-20 minutes to wake up your body
Activities like pilates, yoga, cycling or Nordic walking, allow you to gently wake up and strengthen your muscles.
In Pilates and yoga, for example, you work on your posture to protect your back while gaining flexibility. Cycling and walking challenge your cardiovascular endurance and help keep your heart strong.
-30 minutes of brain stimulation
Take a good book while drinking your coffee, write, do Sudoku, read the newspaper … These 30 minutes are perfect for working your mind.
-30 minutes of sharing emotions
This more intimate moment lends itself to the release of his buried thoughts, his overly cumbersome emotions: stress, fear, nostalgia, etc. Lay down your memories and that emotional overflow on the pages of a journal in your life or in letters you choose or not to send.
-10 minutes of relaxation
These last minutes are spent doing nothing, refocusing on yourself through meditation. You can also send prayers or positive thoughts to those close to you and those you love.
Find more tips in The magic of the morning, Isalou Beaudet-Regen, Leduc S. Editions.
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