There are healthful recreation activities and exercises for seniors to stay fit and to still actively engage in social events and interactions.

 

One way to keep happiness in life even in our passing years is your ample time of socializing and engaging in recreational events and exercise.

If you think that seniors can no longer engage with such things due to a lot of hindrances and complications, you are wrong!

There are still a lot of things that can be fun and healthy for seniors.

Active seniors always want to keep rolling with hobbies and activities that can stimulate their mind, body, and spirit. Recreational activities are not just exclusive for teenagers and adults, but can also be engaging to seniors.

Senior exercise is far from the notion of bucketful-of-sweat kind of exercises but they are all easy to engage even on a day to day basis.

Here are some of the effective activities that seniors can do and can enjoy despite their old age and tired joints and muscles.

OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES

Brisk walking

A simple walk in your neighborhood or in the nearby park, or along the beach can be considered as the most healthy and safest way of exercise. This also brings a rush of refreshing start of the day and to work out back those feebling muscles and joints of yours. Walking around can also let you enjoy natural sceneries which can be soothing to your senses.

Biking

Biking can also be a lot of fun. It is also one of the effective ways to exercise your muscles as well as enjoy the sightseeings in nature with two wheels as your company. Biking is much less expensive and it is such a stress-relieving activity/exercise for seniors. It is a form of senior exercise that can help improve muscle tone and help build stamina.

Swimming

Water is considered best in providing beneficial and rigorous exercise for seniors. Swimming can help increase circulation. This outdoor activity is highly recommended for seniors who struggle from arthritis since it requires no pressure on joints.

Fishing

Fishing along quiet and peaceful river banks is a great pastime and a healthy exercise for seniors. According to Curtin’s researches, fishing can be a healthy outdoor activity that can provide vitamin D. It’s an easily digested source of lean protein at such a little cost! It is considered the major health concern in Australia.

Hiking

Hiking is one of the healthiest activities for seniors. It works out your muscles and bones. Hiking is known to improve circulation and cardiovascular health. However, seniors should take the proper precautions upon hiking to avoid problems like dehydration. So seniors should have full and proper water or fluid intake.

INDOOR ACTIVITIES

Dancing

Dancing can be the top of the list of healthy and engaging activities. It is also a form of both senior exercise and recreation but far more fun and engaging. This moderate, weight-bearing, low-impact activity brings joy and laughter, especially to seniors. But aside from the healthy and fun interaction, dancing can also help strengthen bones and muscles, reduce stress and tension, tone the entire body, build confidence, and above all, it helps seniors fight and prevent illnesses like heart disease, depression, high blood pressure, diabetes, and osteoporosis. Even Romualdo Belardinelli, M.D. claimed that dancing is a new choice of exercise for seniors with heart failures.

Painting

Painting is a great many things for seniors – a peaceful and fun pastime, a creative and cognitive activity, and a relaxing and therapeutic hobby. This may be new but researches have shown that painting helps assist mobility, cause intellectual stimulation, offer emotional stability, and encourage concentration. Seniors, even at their twilight years, can still make their own masterpieces.

Writing

As for seniors, writing can be a lot fitting for improving one’s cognitive, memory, and creativity. Writing can bring a lot of health benefits for the well-being of a person. It can be quite light for seniors since it doesn’t take much effort and movement, just the manner of putting a pen to paper and exploring ideas. Writing can help improve communication skills, improve cognitive functions, and provide an outlet for stress and emotions.

Doing regular senior exercise and being active in recreational activities is tantamount to having full wellness and a long span of life. There is no specific age for exercising and for any physical and mental activities. Regular exercise helps protect us from chronic disease, lowers chances of injury, and improves mood.

Seniors engaging in such activities tend to have a longer and fuller life and firmer immunity than those who are not. Countless benefits are what exercise and recreation bring about to seniors’ life and enjoyment value. These activities not just benefit seniors’ physical condition but enable them to generate positive feelings and memories – easing stress and depression – regardless of mental and physical condition and disability of a person.