Senior Exercise

Most people think that senior citizens do not exercise. While we do not exercise in the traditional way, we still know how to work out. We stretch our backs by bobbing up and down ten times to pick up one thing from the floor. We bend down half way and realize it is not far enough. Up we go. We wait a moment and bob down a bit more. Almost there. By the tenth time we have stretched our backs enough to grab the item in question. We use our homemade stairmaster by walking up and down the stairs 20 times a day. It is done in "reps" of ten two's. The first 9 sets are done when we need to get an item from upstairs. We walk up, forget what we came for and walk down again. As we are downstairs we remember what we wanted and walk up again. We forget for the second time. We repeat this 9 times. The last "rep" of 2 comes when we walk upstairs and actually remember what we came for and walk down with it. We exercise our side muscles by rolling back and forth in bed to gain momentum to propel ourselves out of bed and get out feet onto the floor. We are a very active population, but in our own way.