Comments on: Working Out to Live Longer

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 20:16:00 +0000

My mom’s friend is a Pilates instructor and she offered me free classes last summer. I was the youngest in the class at 18, and also the weakest. These middle-aged and elderly women with children were more flexible and stronger than I was. Ditto to the instructor.

On Tuesday, I will have BodyRocked for 30 days in a row. Exercise has improved my life in so many surprising ways. Firstly, I stand taller and feel more lively in general. I am a college student, and on those nights I have to pull papers out of my rear end at late hours at night, I can do it without falling asleep. Now sleep feels like more of an awesome luxury. I know I should be sleeping enough, but I’m coming around… :)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:10:00 +0000

Love to have you in our BodyRockers section!!! Send in your pics and story if you like and we will post it :) email: bodyrockers@bodyrock.tv

By: nobody

nobody — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:47:18 +0000

thank for the exercise

By: Bbln

Bbln — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:11:34 +0000

When I was 18 me and my best friend attended some yoga classes. Our instructor was a 79yrs old woman and she could still sit in lotus position (when you put your feet on opposite thigh with knees on the ground) and do all kinds of complicated positions without any strain. She also had a boyfriend who was 72 :) She was so full of life and beamed with positive energy and health. At that time she was practicing yoga for 50yrs and eating healthy. I hope I will be like her when I’m her age.

By: Gergana

Gergana — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:15:41 +0000

I think you have made a great point!!!!
I always wondered how great grandma was in her 90s and still so agile and strong for an elderly woman. Well… she grew up on a farm where she had to take care of the animals and tend to the crops all her life. Now may be these days that is considered to be moderate activity, but in her day the industrial revolution had not fully touched area! So, early mornings of lifting hay stacks and serving them to the animals, long hours of plowing with the old school animal propelled plows and using a shovel to break up the clumps of soil.
Yeah I would say exercise improves quality and length of life, in the sense that getting old isn’t necessarily being decrepit!