Readers Digest – Best Health Magazine featured the expertise of NC’s Adam Upshaw, professor of exercise science in the School of Justice and Fitness Studies, in their piece on misconceptions with exercise and aging.
Upshaw asserts that one of the most significant factors in ones body’s deterioration is a sedentary lifestyle, recommending that individuals over 60 continue to move and participate in healthy activities. Since the body shrinks with age, Upshaw recommends extension exercises that work muscles that aren’t being worked in daily activities, such as the shoulders, wrists, hips, glutes, back and ankles. The result of this kind of exercise regimen for someone 60+? Improved posture and a better change of avoiding injury.
Upshaw is also the chair-elect at the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology.
Read the article in Best Health Magazine.
