Getting Started
The chart below provides ideas of activities in the areas of cardiorespiratory endurance, strength and flexibility. Many of these activities will also help improve your balance. Most importantly, choose activities that you enjoy. This will make it more likely that you’ll keep doing them!
Cardiorespiratory
- Walking
- Swimming
- Dancing
- Skating
- Hiking
- Rolling your wheelchair
Strength
- Chair exercises
- Lifting weights or cans
- Carrying laundry or groceries
- Working in the yard
- Washing the car
- Scrubbing the floor
Flexibility
Including cardiorespiratory, strength and flexibility activities in your weekly routine may sound like a challenge. Click on the following link to see sample physical activity schedules for healthy older adults that incorporate activities from all three areas.
It can be difficult to make a change in your daily routine. Still not sure how to begin? Check out the Getting Started section for a user-friendly guide to beginning or increasing physical activity. Also visit Making Physical Activity Part of Your Life for tips on how to be more active every day.
Source: CDC
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