Exercise is advantageous to the elderly people
All these are distinct from the requirement of the senior citizens in America. Doctor Theodore Gel Crop is a cardiologist in Now York who wants the aged to carry out a national exercise plan. He said: “we are taking a overprotection attitude. Our the middle-aged and the old are always persuaded, or in fact even forced to reduce their physical activity so that come to a degree of atrophy because of the inactivity, and therefore are led to a damaged result-even if it is not fatal”. In recent 20 or 30 years, there was an argument about whether the middle-aged should participate in the physical exercise. P J Stan Crone in 1905 says in his book How to Stop Suicide: “Exercise is a state of mind, like the sheep, we also follow the foregoer. We have heard that “sports are good for you”, and thus we regard it as pithy saying no matter it is reasonable, and put our creaking joints and the stiff muscles which don’t work through the unnecessary exhaustion just because we treat it as essential accessory of normal life. Please remember, you are not bound to exercise.
But now there come the signs of change. One of them is that more and more people over forty begin to run. We can see from the report of Nationwide Data Center of Running: there were about 2250 runners over 40 years old among the 18466 runners who took part in the official events in 1975. Besides, they exercised hard and ran well as well as the young runners in twenties and thirties. In some games by age grading (every 5 years is divided into a grade), the phenomenon is not seldom that champions of higher grade (50 years old to 54 years old, for example) run faster than the champions of lower grade. I met a 72-year-old runner called Lacy E Perry in a race in the city of Soak Sana in New Jersey not long before. He started to run at 60 years old after a doctor had ordered him to do some physical activities. Now he is one of the members of the local Old Defenders Club of Young Men’s Christian Association, and he runs for 6 miles a day and can surpass the runners who are of half of his age. He said to me: “I can run till 50 years later by the doctor’s words.
As mentioned before in the forth chapter, Doctor Fred Karsh has testified that physical exercise can restrain or even remove some main physiological changes concerned with ageing phenomenon. Furthermore, the report of research in women from 52 years old to 79 years old made by Doctor Herbert Devries and Gene Adams (their work are roughly mentioned in Chapter 2) in University of Southern California indicates that only 3 months of exercise can significantly improve the cardiovascular system and reduce the rest of the heartbeat rate.
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