Source: July/August 2009 issue of AARP magazine.
Findings: 40,000 men followed for 32 years. During that time swimmers had a 50% lower death rate than all others. Conclusion: Keep swimming!!
Ice dancing, that's the ticket. It's weightbearing and you can do it into 80s; I used to enjoy watching the active senior couples at noon skate waltzing.
Swimming can be done after the knees quit and the ankles quit; it can be done with any variety of orthopedic limitations, which makes it good for nonagenarians. I expect that contributed something to the AARP results.
There is a huge actuarial mortality spike at 85. Huge. Empire State Bldg size class. Those who make it past 85 (begin speculation) are less likely to continue running but can go on swimming. So data are in part artifactual. (In other words, it isn't swimming that gives you a longer life but your longer life that forces you to give up running and take up swimming - and also keeps you in the data pool to be measured.)
Goodness, who cares.
:)
Ice dancing, that's the ticket. It's weightbearing and you can do it into 80s; I used to enjoy watching the active senior couples at noon skate waltzing.
Swimming can be done after the knees quit and the ankles quit; it can be done with any variety of orthopedic limitations, which makes it good for nonagenarians. I expect that contributed something to the AARP results.
There is a huge actuarial mortality spike at 85. Huge. Empire State Bldg size class. Those who make it past 85 (begin speculation) are less likely to continue running but can go on swimming. So data are in part artifactual. (In other words, it isn't swimming that gives you a longer life but your longer life that forces you to give up running and take up swimming - and also keeps you in the data pool to be measured.)
Goodness, who cares.
:)
