Enjoyable Exercise for Women: Strengthening Bones, Ligaments, and Heart Health

Exercise must be something to enjoy. It serves a purpose in keeping you strong and mentally fit as well as physically fit. It’s important that exercise does not stress you out. As a lady experiencing the physical changes and challenges that life brings you during your 40s and 50s choose a physical activity which you look forward to.

Being challenged during physical activity delivers bone and tendon loading. This helps to keep bone density, as hormones change and can deplete bone density. It also maintains healthy tendons and ligaments. During loss of oestrogen ligaments loosen which can lead to lower back pain. The more you can load the boat and tendons and ligaments in exercise the stronger your structure can be maintained.

All of that will keep your joints protected, working well and stable. During menopause, low oestrogen loosens ligaments. These are ribbons around the bones keeping them together. If the ligaments Olsen, your joints are a key to move past their normal range. You feel ‘really flexible’ but in fact, your joints are ‘hyper-extending’. There is insufficient strength to keep them in a good range. As a result, you will feel slight discomfort despite good movement.

Cardiovascular exercise is essential in maintaining heart health. I would not recommend training for a marathon, but I would suggest you do cardiovascular exercise to increase the heart rate, on an interval basis, to strengthen the heart.