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Physiological Benefits Of Exercise For Older Adults. Studies have shown that maintaining regular physical activity can help prevent many common diseases. Older adults who sit less and do any amount of moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity gain some health benefits. This is an excerpt from Aquatic Fitness Professional Manual-7th Edition by Aquatic Exercise Association. Exercise and Physical Activity for Older Adults.
Keep in mind some physical activity is better than none. Physiologic changes of aging that limit function and general quality of life occur at a faster rate as we get older. Behavioral and psychological variables were also found to be irrelevant in predicting improvement in physiological performance at Time 2. 37 Full PDFs related to this paper. Exercise and Physical Activity for Older Adults. Experimental trials of exercise interventions in older adults demonstrate that acute exposure to a single bout of aerobic exercise can result in short-term improvements in memory attention and reaction time but more importantly participation in both AET and RET alone and in combination leads to sustained improvements in cognitive performance particularly for executive control tasks.
For optimal effects the older person must adhere to the prescribed exercise program and follow the overload principle of training ie to exercise near the limit of the maximum capacity to challenge the body systems sufficiently to induce improvements in physiological parameters such as VO2max and muscular strength 1.
Contributing factors are the loss of muscle mass and strength as age increases a phenomenon called sarcopenia. Physiologic changes of aging that limit function and general quality of life occur at a faster rate as we get older. A short summary of this paper. The hearts function is to pump blood most adults have slightly more than a gallon of blood in their bodies through more than 60000 miles of blood vessels. Exercise and Physical Activity for Older Adults. Your health benefits will.