Keep Active--Get Movin' at 50 Plus
By: Source: AARP.org Date Posted: 2006-02-01 12:22:11.648883-05:00
More and more we’re reading stories in our newspapers that remind us that a key to healthy aging is staying active. You can’t pick up a magazine without finding articles about fitness. TV shows feature active grandparents. But wanting to keep fit and actually putting activity into your daily practice can be miles apart. It’s always easy to find some excuse to put it off until tomorrow.
Keep Active--Get Movin’ at 50 Plus will help you get started, increase activity safely, guide you to the best activity for you, and help you know if you’re doing too much. You'll feel good about yourself for taking these steps. You will start feeling stronger and more flexible. And, if you keep at it, you'll probably start eating better, feeling more energetic, coping better with stress, and generally living a healthier, more independent life.
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Contributors
AARP Health Promotion Team
This seminar is brought to you through the AARP Health Promotion Team, which helps AARP members achieve and enhance their health goals. The seminar is part of a project to help Americans 50 and older remain physically active. To support this goal, AARP is 1) developing a wide variety of resources, like this seminar and our two online activity programs and 2) partnering with other organizations that share our interest.
AARP is a nonprofit, nonpartisan membership organization that helps people 50+ have independence, choice and control in ways that are beneficial and affordable to them and society as a whole. We produce AARP The Magazine, published bimonthly; AARP Bulletin, our monthly newspaper; AARP Segunda Juventud, our bimonthly magazine in Spanish and English; NRTA Live & Learn, our quarterly newsletter for 50+ educators; and our website, www.aarp.org. AARP Foundation is an affiliated charity that provides security, protection, and empowerment to older persons in need with support from thousands of volunteers, donors, and sponsors. We have staffed offices in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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