Do you have an aged family member who is slowly but surely putting on weight and is in dire need of health and fitness exercises? Well, you may try using motivational words to convince the person to start exercising but that may not work. When people grow old, they become defensive and diffident about their own physical abilities.
You might have seen your father or mother carryout numerous strenuous activities without any exhaustion or hesitation. However, once he or she grows old, there will be a marked hesitation to indulging anything that is remotely strenuous.
Why don’t you take advantage of the doctor to overcome this problem? If your parent is under regular medical care, he or she will have a trust based relationship with the doctor. In such a scenario, a recommendation by the doctor will automatically work as an instruction or an order that must be followed. A word from your doctor that regular exercises will help avoids present and future problems, will have a bigger impact than your requests and pleadings.
In the same way, you must consult your doctor if your parent has decided to exercise and stay fit. To feel concerned about ones physical fitness is one thing. However, to recognize ones limitations and act accordingly is a completely different thing. If your parent is trying to prove that he or she still has it to exercise at top speed, a doctors word of caution will help temper enthusiasm with discipline. The last thing you want is for your father or mother to collapse on the treadmill simply because the speed was set too high.
Check out stretching exercises on the internet and encourage your parents to follow it. Since they are retired, they can take a lot of time to focus on each and every part of the body and stretch it properly. This will help them feel fit.