Posts Tagged ‘Health’

People live longer and healthier – now what?

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

“If young people realize they might live past 100 and be in good shape to 90 or 95, it might make more sense to mix education, work and child-rearing across more years of life instead of devoting the first two decades exclusively to education, the next three or four decades to career and parenting, and the last four solely to leisure.”
James W. Vaupel (Duke University)
http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2010/03/aging.html

Fascinating thought… How would you arrange/plan/dream your life if you knew you’d live to be in good shape at 90?

Better question yet: How should the institutions around us, guiding and supporting us in our lives, change??

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Fast & Easy Home Workouts

Monday, April 20th, 2009

Expensive gym memberships, heavy commitments, lots of dedicated time, personal trainers, worrying and bad feelings… All general keywords I’ve heard from people who would like to be a bit healthier and loose some weight, but who are not very interested in sports.

I believe that even if you don’t like sports, you can still integrate daily workouts in your routine that you will not even notice. And a year later, you’ll be amazed when you see and feel the results.

Focusing only on physical activity this time, and not on nutrition, my advice for people who would like to seamlessly integrate sufficient daily physical activity in their lives would be to DAILY:

  • never use escalators,
  • use elevators only from 5 floors and up,
  • WALK distances up to 15min,
  • CYCLE distances up to 10min,
  • and work out at home or garden for periods up to 5min.

Easy to stick to, right?

Oh, and if you are not sure what to do in those 5 minutes at home, those 5 minutes that hit you a couple of times a day probably, those 5 minutes when you’re waiting on someone to get out of the bathroom, or waiting on the water to boil, or waiting on a particular SMS :) … Well check out the below videos, 2 examples of the abundance in resources online…

1. www.ExerciseTV.tv

http://www.exercisetv.tv/watchvideo…

2. YouTube of course

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbnW3RTLEvs&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1]

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