Get moving and keep the wrinkles and disease at bay
There’s plenty of truth in the old adage ‘use it or lose it’. Regular exercise* over a number of years has been proven to be anti-ageing by helping protect the body from disease.
Staying active into your old age is important for fighting serious diseases including cancer, heart disease, stroke and diabetes. It also helps you maintain flexibility and reaction times as well as keeping you mobile.
By boosting your circulation it can help you look younger too, by giving you a youthful healthy glow.
Reduce stress
Stress can make you look and feel older than you are, so take steps to cut it down. Gentle exercises such as brisk walking in the open air, pilates or yoga are good for stress relief as well as being low impact and very beneficial for fitness.
Lift weights
You don’t need to be Charles Atlas but using light weights strengthens the bones, helping to keep osteoporosis at bay. Training with weights also helps to fight the loss of muscle tissue which happens naturally as we get older. And if you’re on a weight-loss programme, using weights will pad out any saggy skin, helping it look younger.
Facial exercises
These may involve a lot of face pulling – and time and effort to get right – but exercising your face directly can help you look younger, giving you firmer facial muscles which help to fight sagging.
*Always check with your GP before beginning an exercise regime.