Health and Fitness Tips

Health and Fitness Tips - Anti-ageing exercises:

Age: 30's to 40's:

Your exercise priorities:
Women need to kick-start resistance training to gain stress-busting strength and endurance and keep their metabolism revved up. At this age both men and women need to commit to getting physically active on a daily basis.


Specific exercises:
Compound strength exercises that engage a number of muscle groups, increasing calorie expenditure and bone density, such as the 'four-point lunge'.


What it does:
Shapes, strengthens and lengthens the whole of the thigh. Great exercise to start with as it stretches as it tones and addresses virtually all the muscles in the thigh. Furthermore, the large number of muscles used in this exercise burns extra calories.


What you do:
Stand on the floor, a low bench or bottom stair. Extend one leg back with a large stride so the leg has only a slight bend at the knee, lower the back leg knee towards the floor, straighten the leg and bring the extended leg back to the start position. This takes four counts. Change sides and repeat.