Lifestyle Update | Dancing, aerobics or daily walk allow older women to perform better

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With growing age, it is essential that we make extra efforts to live a healthier life in future. While little lifestyle changes are important, there are small tricks to follow a healthier lifestyle, especially for older women. Doing things like going on a walk every day or drinking an appropriate amount of water in a day, can also help in achieving your task.

So, even if you choose any one activity from the following three, it will contribute towards healthy living!

Daily walk is essential

Simple physical exercises help in keeping you fit and up for the day. But taking a gym membership at this age doesn't look like a solution; begin with simple exercises at home or, you can even start with 15 minutes walk in the morning for a happy day.

Dancing lower risks of disability

While dancing is touted as a whole-body workout for the youth, it can also reduce the risk of disability in older women, according to a new study. The study showed that dancing was associated with a 73 per cent significantly lower risk of developing disability in walking, eating, bathing, dressing among others, in older women. However, there were no significant associations between other exercise types and disability, the researchers described in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports.

"Although it is unclear why dancing alone reduced the risk of disability, dancing requires not only balance, strength, and endurance ability, but also cognitive ability: adaptability and concentration to move according to the music and partner, artistry for graceful and fluid motion, and memory for choreography," said Yosuke Osuka, lead researcher from the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology.

Light exercising like aerobics

In case the word 'exercise' ask you to procrastinate already, here's a simple trick. Practice aerobics at home which includes very light exercises and help in keeping your body flexible. 20-25 minutes of aerobics each day is really helpful and effective for beginners.

(IANS Inputs)

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