Active Body, Active Brain
Some things I would like to remember. Other things, not so much. The worst jobs I’ve ever had? I could forget those. Getting locked out of my apartment and having to crawl up a...
Tagged: Aging Intelligently
Change It Up and Move It
Aerobic activity not only increases our fitness; it also stimulates the improvement of mental health by generating structural changes in the brain. I did not make this up; it comes from the US National...
Explanation Unnecessary
You get in your car, stomp on the gas, and it moves forward, assuming you’re in gear. Explanation is unnecessary to making it go. You can be totally ignorant of the internal workings of...
Visualize Your Way To Healthy Aging
If you have watched enough Olympics, you know that top athletes visualize their winning performances. In their mind’s eye, they see themselves performing perfectly before the actual performance. It’s called visualization, and it works...
The Springs of Life: Your Knees
Knees are happy when they’re working correctly. They make the rest of the body miserable when they don’t work. And all too often, we don’t give them the respect they deserve. Knees are a...
Two Mobility Skills For Independence
What actions can you still perform that you did at 17? Run, jump, skip, easily lie down on the floor and rise from it? Can you hop on one foot? Or hop from one...
Five Movements For Healthy Longevity
Sixty-one percent of adults aged 65 and older have limited ability to perform basic actions, according to the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. For healthy longevity, you should be able to bend down...
Fail More
Failing is how you learn to become successful. Don’t believe me? Watch a child learning to crawl, then walk, and finally run. Ever ride a bike? No one does it without falling off a...
Diversity In Learning
What formal education does for us is take curiosity out of the equation of learning. We put students in rows of chairs from first grade, expect them to sit in the same position for...
A Generation of Baby Boomers
Every day, 10,000 Americans are turning 65. The numbers are growing. All us baby boomers? We are getting older, being replaced by the millennials. Our turn came and their turn is here. But we...