Sunday, October 21, 2007 Paquiao: No surrender By Calixto S. Paquiao Fitness & You
A LOT of men and women who pass the age of 40 make a mistake of thinking they will naturally look less attractive than they did when they were 20.
They say it is an inevitable part of aging. But wat is really happening is that they are giving in and surrendering to aging.
Okay, they are saying, “I’m getting older. I won’t be as beautiful or handsome or as graceful as I was. I don’t care and don’t have time to exercise because I’m busy with my job or business.”
As for me, I believe they really do care.
If people are strong and have pride, they still have that vital spark to do something good for their body. I know they still have that interest not to succomb or surrender to aging.
A lot of friends I know won’t accept aging. Some say, “I’m going to fight aging; age can’t take anything away from me. I am going to keep everything I have: my beauty, my physique, my active life, my energy, my strength and endurance.”
There is no age at which you should not exercise; no point in life when it is too late to begin a systematic exercise program to rejuvenate yourself. In fact, the importance of exercise to your total being actually increases with age. Not that you will need more exercise, but as you grow older and less active, you will have a greater need for planned exercise.
An exercise designed to keep you stimulated and flexible. That is if you want to maintain fully use of your bodily system.
There is no way you can save your body by not using it. The result is just the opposite. Without use, your body atrophies.
Exercise, especially exercise in a controlled program created to strengthen and maintain your entire body, can prevent and even overcome some of the ill effects of aging, like neglected muscles, stiff joints and tendons stooped shoulders, widows hump, and loose, sagging upper arms.
You can avoid these problems if you begin early in life to exercise regularly.
But if you’ve already fallen victim to one or more of the above-mentioned results of physical neglect, you can still do something about it. You can begin to work now and gradually eliminate them. No matter what condition your body its in, it can be changed.
