While there is increasing hype today about eating in a way that keeps you younger, so-called “anti aging diets,” many forget the important role that exercise plays in your diet. Your diet puts fuel into your body; your exercise works it to yield a leaner, trimmer you. It is important for us to find an activity that fits us, and that we begin exercising today. In other words, your weekly routine needs to include a healthy diet of exercise.
When I was young, I exercised for fun when I wanted to and was not all that serious about the effort. Now that I am older, I exercise for health on a regular basis even when I don’t want to and am serious about the effort. The difference between my younger and older perspectives comes from the wisdom that comes with age, seeing the dehabilitating effects of age on my father (including diabetes, Parkinson’s, limited mobility, and dementia), and the sobriety that possessed me after his death at the age of 85.
So I run, and to improve my enjoyment and minimize impact and injury to my body, I run without shoes. My barefoot journey began 3 years ago after I began experiencing shin splints, knee problems, and “runners toe.” My form was terrible and I was constantly striving to correct improper pronation. What shoes could not correct, my barefoot, influenced innately by my barefoot awareness of balance, naturally corrected.
Our propriocepsis reflexes govern our sense of balance and awareness of where our body is relative to the world around us. It is this sense that tells us we are falling or out of balance. My running shoes had isolated me away from real contact with my running world and impaired my balance and running awareness. This resulted in twisted ankles, improper running form, increased impact to the body, and runners toe. My legs were tired from lugging 12 or so ounces of shoe on each foot back and forth 3 feet over 2000 times every mile; I found myself not enjoying my runs and in need of a change to address running injuries.
Now, after more than 4300 miles of running barefoot over 38 months on every type of running surface and experiencing temperature ranges of 10F to 100F, I have not had a single lost day of running because of running injury. The journey has been slow and I have had to learn how to run all over again, but barefoot running works for me and is the reason I still run.
What exercise works for you and keeps you young? It is important that you find an activity that works for you, puts stress on your cardiovascular system, and productively burns the food that you consume each day. An anti aging diet that comprises only what you eat is doomed to failure for life is more that food. In fact, in addition to exercise, there are a number of other things that need to be added to your weekly routine, and http://anti-aging-diet.net provides information on each of these.
Here is to a younger you!
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