Strength exercises for elders

Strength training is increasingly being recommended for elders as a way to increase their health.

The benefits of strength training do not occur only in people with younger ages. Although it should always be carried out with appropriate precautions, and monitoring, strength training in advanced ages, specially elders, brings significant enhancements to who practice it.

It is the golden age that occur a series of acute losses in the human body, among many others, loss of muscle mass that begins to occur from 30 years, is worse for senior citizens, as well as the loss of bone density, what make the older organisms much more fragile and prone to serious injury.

But quality of life can increase greatly if as soon as you can, you get to work to prevent these sooners rather than later. You can start at any time to do a strength training that have as main benefit the increased muscle mass and consequently increasing bone density, but there are many others.

Experiments done all over the world to the elderly population in order to observe the improvements brought by weight training show that this should be done whenever possible.

Decreased blood pressure

A regular work out with weights done by the population above 60 years can prevent cardiovascular, neurovascular accidents or heart attacks as they keep blood pressure levels.

Balance, coordination and agility

Regular work out with weights has proved effective in improving balance, coordination and agility of movement in the elderly population, improving their posture and the pains associated with the bad postures.

Prevention of osteoporosis

Weight training increases bone density. Unlike what was thought, that the loss of bone density could only be avoided, the strength training has shown that it is possible to increase this density.