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Like most experts, Kohrt divides fitness activities into three broad categories. At the top of the list is cardiovascular exercise--anything that makes the heart beat faster. "No matter what your age--unless you have a truly unstable condition--getting your heart rate up several times a week is really important," says Miriam Nelson, an associate professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. "That trumps everything." The other two major types of activity--strength training and stability (or balance) exercises--come into greater play as you get older. You don't necessarily have...
FIFTIES AND SIXTIES. What you do now starts to depend more on your risk factors. Cardiovascular disease is still the biggest threat so keep that heart rate up. Maintaining your weight takes more work. "It becomes more important to do exercises that address your strength and flexibility and balance as well as cardiovascular [requirements]," says Roseann Lyle, a professor of health promotion at Purdue University. She is particularly fond of resistance bands and stability balls...
...kind to your joints. Exercise can qualify as cardiovascular without giving your joints a pounding. Take a gym spin on a recumbent bike, pump an elliptical trainer or enroll in a water-aerobics class. Concentrate on strengthening upper-leg muscles, especially the quadriceps. That will, in turn, ease the strain on knees...
...obese. Yet only about 30% of them have hypertension, and only 20% have diabetes. While he doesn't speculate about what's behind the low diabetes numbers, physical activity does appear to play a major role in keeping blood pressure in check. "Generally, the health benefits of fitness are cardiovascular," Cheskin says...
Life Time Fitness, a chain of gyms based in Minneapolis, Minn., that has 39 centers in eight states, is joining the trend. Trainers there have chucked the BMI and now tailor workout regimens to clients according to their aerobic capacity, cardiovascular fitness and more...