To tone your body… and your brain!
Today, we are living longer and longer in good health. There is no secret, a good life expectancy is based on maintaining physical and cognitive activity.
On the sport side, its benefits on the health of seniors no longer need to be demonstrated. In addition to slowing the decline of cognitive functions, regular practice helps maintain cardiovascular endurance, and maintain muscle and bone capital while protecting against certain disorders such as dementia. ©pressure. The World Health Organization recommends that people over 65 get 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 ? Through brain 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 set up 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 program to do each morning:
1h30 to be fit in the morning
-20 minutes to wake up your body
Activities like Pilatesyoga, cycling or nordic walkinggently 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 work on your cardiovascular endurance and promote a stronger heart.
-30 minutes of brain stimulation
Take a good book while drinking your coffee, write, do sudoku, read the newspaper… These 30 minutes come at the right time to exercise your mind.
-30 minutes of sharing emotions
This more intimate moment lends itself to the release of buried thoughts, too cumbersome emotions: stress, fear, nostalgia, etc. Lay down your memories and this emotional overflow on the pages of a journal of your life or in letters that you choose to send or not.
-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 your loved ones and those you love.
Find more tips in The magic of the morning, Isalou Beaudet-Regen, Leduc S. Editions.
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