strength training and osteoporosis

  • Optimistic Aging: Facing Changes

    Happy Thursday….cataract surgery day for me!  So, it seems fitting to write about Optimistic Aging: Facing Changes. The posts I have been writing on optimistic aging are merely to keep us focused on the positive as we march into our second half of life…which means we are all facing changes. Last week, a woman in…

  • A Lesson about Working Out and Osteoporosis

    Four years ago I was diagnosed with the beginning stages of Osteoporosis. It meant a change in diet, some medication, and work out plan with strength training.  The quick re-cap is I had not entered a gym at that point, for my own health, until I was sixty and again, I do not recommend that…

  • Work Outs for Women over 50: An Update!

    A reader recently said to me, “You have not discussed your work out for a long time.  Do you still go to the gym?”  The short answer is Yes…I still go!  The longer answer is best described in one word…Perseverance! I did not join a gym or hire a trainer until I was 60 years…