Revisiting the Health and Wellness Benefits of Lifetime Sports to Aging Individuals 25 Years Later

Abstract

County, Maryland based upon the conceptual framework of published research determining that high intensity strength training in nonagenarians, persons in the 90-year old range, was beneficial to their overall health and well-being. More older individuals are living longer throughout the world and many of these aging individuals are healthy enough to actually enjoy their longevity. One of the main reasons for the improvements in longevity and functional health is many more aging individuals are better educated about what constitutes good health and are more accepting of those behavioral factors that contribute to good health such as increasing physical activity and initiating or maintaining active involvement in lifetime sports pursuits.

Remote home physical training for seniors: guidelines from the AAL-supported MOTION project

“…However, access to gyms or the possibility to practice physical activities may be difficult if one lives in rural and semi-rural areas (Abbaspour et al 2017;Coburn et al 2007;Perkins and Moran 2010), or if one is subjected to limited availability of income (Smith et al 2014), or refrained by cultural barriers (Clark 1995;Smith 2017). Seniors can be reluctant to enter the changing rooms, as they would like not to share intimacy with people they know too little, especially when they suffer from embarrassing, even when not invalidating, physical problems.…”