Exercises to avoid for Seniors (and those that are recommended

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The exercises to avoid for those over 60:   

1.  Running

2.  Heavy lifting

3.  Pylometric exercise (those that involve jumping)  

Exercises that are recommended:    

1.  Brisk walking

2   Balance exercises

3.  Light weights;   calisthenics    

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzwkU4xv2PI

Growing popularity of running, duathlon, triathlon

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This post often see events:  running, duathlon, triathlon.   And those practicing along roads and hills.

I could not join the running craze again because of all ready damaged knee tendon   Started running in 1985, after my father died, since his EENT said that the only way to overcome cancer and live long is by exercising.  He ran the Boston Marathon and he graduated from Harvard.  And posted in his clinic is not his Harvard Diploma but him finishing the Boston Marathon..   And so I started running:  joining 5k, 10 k, 21 k and 42 k   I experienced  training of run of 30 km or more.  Did not join ultramarathon though.

Then moved to trekking, 4x4, and lately biking.    I stayed long in biking because of good company and great destinations.   

They had a fun run/walk yesterday from Angono to Manila East February 8, 2015

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Angono Rizal  |  February 9, 2015

As I biked yesterday from Angono to Antipolo, I noticed PUSO lined up along the street and that the portion of the road was blocked and that there were hundreds of young people walking or running wearing Red Cross singlets.  I thought that there was a race.