Un-Motivated? January is the time of year when we are inspired to buy memberships at health clubs and fill journals with resolutions full of promise. Holiday sluggishness is replaced with renewed …
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Strategies for Healthy Eating After the Holidays
by Mia Bremer By the time you’re reading this column the holiday season is mostly past. Regardless of which holidays you celebrate, food is a central focus of many celebrations and it’s important …
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How Hard Are You Working? – Safely measuring aerobic activity for older adults
by Mia Bremer The word “aerobic” means “with oxygen”. Cardiorespiratory exercise, then, involves moving in a way that increases the heart rate requiring a constant source of …
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Maximizing Emotional Health
by Sally Brown Aging with Gusto facilitator Maximizing Emotional Health is one of the 8 key contributors we highlight in Aging with Gusto. When we refer to emotional health we are referring to …
Easy Indoor Cardio as the Weather gets Colder
by Mia Bremer If you’re not an avid skier, fat-tire mountain biker or ice-skater, getting your cardio exercise in the winter months gets tougher. As we start to put our road bikes away and …
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Aging Successfully, an introduction
September 2023 Christine Farris The average Minnesotan's life expectancy is around 80.4 years. Whether we reach that age – or better yet, exceed it – largely depends on our genes. There are also …
Doing things that are Satisfying and Fulfilling
by AWG Coordinator Jan CunninghamDoing Good/Being Kind: Decreases stress and increases life expectancy as well as makes us feel betterand motivates us to do good again because it generates a “Helper’s …
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Pickleball Injury Prevention: Part 2–Lower Body Strength
by Mia Bremer Last year my 59-year old husband found both “his sport” and a community when he started attending a weekly drop in indoor pickleball game at NE Park Recreation Center. He took a …
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