
Discover how aging affects food intake, including calcium and protein needs, and the role of multivitamins, while learning no cook meal planning to support fitness.
Base your exercise plan on your body condition, start slowly, and adapt safely to injuries or disabilities. Exercise releases endorphins, boosts mood, and improves physical and mental health.
Discover three exercise types for aging and fitness—cardiovascular, strength, flexibility—with water-based options like swimming and chair-friendly routines for mobility.
Walking anchors physical activity and public health; adhere to 150 minutes weekly, adjust intensity via pace, and start slowly with medical clearance and vital sign monitoring.
To better understand the importance of metabolism, consider this: if your heart stops beating, you die. Likewise, if your metabolism stops, you die – because without metabolism, you will not have the energy even to breathe, or for your heart to beat!
There are two basic metabolic processes –building and storing energy for the body and breaking down nutrient molecules to release energy.
So, if metabolism is so important to our life expectancy what controls it?
Actually we can break it down to seven factors and that is what we discuss in this course.
Looking at all these factors that influence metabolism, will give you a general idea of what you need to do to increase your metabolism – accept the things you cannot change, like genetics, and work on those that you can!
The first thing we will address is “what’s in it for me”? or answering the question why should I want to fire up my metabolism?
For most of us it’s not all about weight loss, though discussions on metabolism seem to focus almost exclusively on this concept. However, In fact, even if you feel that your weight is perfectly fine, you have a lot to gain by increasing your metabolism.
Join me on the inside, try a few lectures and see if I might be presenting some answers that have plagued you as you consider improving your fitness.
One last reminder: You Are Worth It!