Good Lifestyle

If you want to stayskinny and active well in old age, you know you have toexercise promotestronger muscles, a stronger core and better musculoskeletal health. You also know that you needTo sleep as much as you can,walk as much as you canAnd typically take better lifestyle decisions regarding the type of things you put in your everyday body.

But if you are an athlete - a tennis player, a golfer, a Pickup-Bally basketball junky and you want to stay active in your forties, 50 years old and beyond, you have to do at least another thing.You must show some of your anatomy that you probably never think: your connective tissue, otherwise known as your ligaments, tendons and other fibers that permeate your muscles.

As you get older, your connective tissue stiffens, your mobility decreases and, in some cases, the pain follows. (Arthritis is, after all, aconjunctive tissue disease.) But if you reinforce your connective tissue with targeted exercises - strengthen your ligaments, protect your tendons - you will continue to do what you like a lot longer. In this spirit, here are five great exercises that you can do to strengthen your connective tissue. And for more life changing exercise tips, see here for theSecret exercise tips to reduce your weight for good.

Suppose a squatting position with your feet mentioned and your elbows supported against your knees. Squat as low as possible while keeping your heels on the floor. You will feel stretching in your hips, legs and groin. Hold for 30 seconds, then relax and repeat twice more. And for more good exercise tips, see here forThe 15-second exercise thing that can change your life.

Take a light dumbbell in your right hand and sit on a chair or bench. With your right forearm resting on the right thigh and your right palm turned down, start increasing and lowering your hand using only your wrist. Make 15 repetitions with each hand to strengthen your wrists and forearms and protect your elbows from tendonitis.

Keep a ball of two-handed drugs and hold yourself at your fingertips within reach of the shoulder. Squat, keep your back straight and heels on the floor. Let the ball plunge between your legs, then stand up and twist left, looking up at the shoulders. Make eight repetitions on each side to strengthen the muscles that turn your torso.

Leaning forward against a wall, supporting you with your arms at the chest. Extend a leg behind you, lightly folding the two knees while keeping your feet flat. Lower your hips and increase the curvature in the back leg until it extends over the tendon above your rear heel. Hold for 10 seconds, then repeat with the other leg to improve the force of the ankle.

This exercise will balance your musculature by working your pushing muscles (that is, your PECS, deltoids and your triceps). Place various objects around you in a circle - a bottom bench, two dictionaries, two blocks of ashes - and assume a thrust position with your hands on two level objects. Make a push-up, then go to the next set of objects and do another. Make three sets of 12. And for more good exercise tips, do not miss theA surprising exercise tour to lose belly fat after 50 years, says a new study.