Action Step: Abdominal Strength

Start Aging Intelligently today. The process: one step at a time. The road: move everything in your body every day.

You knew, eventually, it would come to this: core strength, abdominals. When your trunk is strong, it supports everything else. It is big muscles. When it isn’t strong, you’re a whining marshmallow. And no one who cares about their body will have much sympathy for you. But this is easy, and it’s quick:

Just before you eat, and from a seated position, tuck and squeeze your knees (both of them together) up to your chest, then touch the floor with your feet. 15 times. You can increase it if you are inclined, or you can snack 14 times a day, giving yourself more opportunity.You can lean back in the chair, and you get to death grip on the arms of the chair.  It’s an easy and quick way to increase your abdominals and develop a good base support for the rest of the body.

Only then, eat.

This adds a habit you already do (eating) to a habit that you want to form (abdominal strength ).

Aging Intelligently is a process and a practice.

 

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