Age Advantages of Walking to Lose Weight
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Does Age Matter?
Since Walking to Lose Weight I have changed my philosophy on age and the counting of the years. When they’re young a lot of focus is directed towards how old a child is and it is important to them because of this. So many freedoms seem attached onto the years accrued. The book, Outliers by Malcom Gladwell, makes an important point by showing how often the month of their birth can influence a child’s success, particularly as to physical tasks. So someone put into a class of smaller kids can become to believe in their greater ability as a facet of talent rather than simply a function of their size and manual dexterity relative to that of the younger group.
Should Age Matter?
Age itself doesn’t matter. This point made by Gladwell is that a ‘perceived’ talent can be turned into a ‘real’ talent over time with the self belief that it exists.
How Old is Too Old?
If you can take an advantage and use it then do so. The advantages of age exist at every year of your life cycle.
When looking at an exercise program such as this one advocated on Walking to Lose Weight it always requires that walkers start from where they are.
The age issue here (as we’re talking to adults) relates to how old is too old to get more vitality and activity from your lifestyle?
As it is when we’re young and anxious to ‘grow up’ so it is as we age- that certain associations of disability can become dominant expectations around older ages.
The benefits of walking accrue at any age with regular exercise. Sometimes the level of disability makes the normal activity of walking difficult. For information along these lines read Too Old for Pedometer Steps?
The Advantages of Age
Over time I admire the positive traits of both youth and the mature ages even more. In our wealthy and privileged countries most of us live a life of advantage compared to previous eras. This includes the availability of medical and lifestyle technology that would have seemed a fantasy to our ancestors.
Many of the advantages are available to anyone whatever their age and it is only an attitude of perceived limitation that prevents some ages from using the benefits from these different lifestyles in their own. Frankly much of this can be directed at the older ages that suffer from comfortableness. Comfort is a great attribute and is to be admired except when it prevents kaizen or constant improvement.
Starting again in any way can be uncomfortable for many adults. Having gained a certain status, dignity, position, etc. the thought of giving up any of this hard earned achievement seems silly. The accumulation of responsibilities, assets, goals can make leaving it to the young ones can seem a noble option.
When you stop embracing life with open arms the push of energy towards mental renewal stops as well. All our cells renew. Our bodies are new-renewed continually as cells are replaced. Different organs renew at different rates but at any one time our bodes are relatively new. When our thoughts are ‘old’ so are we. A re-evaluated and improved ‘thought’ is ‘new’. It may not actually have changed much. It will however keep us young.
For some the retreat into ‘old’ is a well earned retirement or it is the excuse for not doing what others want of you. There are other ways to get the freedom old age often brings.
The perspective of age is valuable-life experiences that enhance your life force, your willingness to live for yourself as well as others.
Walking to Lose Weight is a way of finding that life force renewal.
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