Ravensong Poetry And Writing Blog by Donovan Baldwin

Two attitudes have influenced both senior exercise and exercise in the general population.

1. Exercise is good for you.
2. The more exercise the better.

Well, we all pretty much agree that exercise is good for you. There's a lot of scientific evidence to support that fact.

Also, in many ways, "more exercise" IS better for you than less...up to a point, of course. There can be too much exercise at any age.

However, another attitude has begun creeping into the exercise debate, and that is that any exercise is better than none.

This is particularly true for senior exercisers, according to Dr. David Hupin of the department of clinical and exercise physiology, University Hospital of Saint-Etienne, France.

The standard guideline of the amount of exercise needed for health is 150 minutes a week, stretched out over several days, of course. Dr. Hupin and his team found out two facts:

1. It is difficult for many senior exercisers to get this much exercise in a week....especially if they are out-of-shape beginners, and...

2. It takes a lot less exercise to produce many health benefits of exercise in seniors.

Learn more about exercise at http://nodiet4me.com/exercise/ .