Training Plan for Over 50s vs PA4Age

With exercise proven to counteract muscle loss, we unveil our old-school training tips. It’s never too late to pick up a gym habit. You’re never too old to get your dream body, and you're never too past it to sculpt a summer six-pack. Whether you're lifting weights or incorporating bodyweight exercises on your walks, performing resistance exercises is crucial for building muscle and burning fat in your 40s, 50s, and beyond. Exercise is key to your independence and a good quality of life as you age. You lose muscle mass as you get older, and exercise can help you rebuild it. Muscles also burn more calories than fat, even at rest, which will offset your slowing metabolism. Cardio or aerobic exercise gets your heart rate up and makes you breathe harder, which builds your endurance and burns calories. Strength or weight training keeps your muscles ready for action. Flexibility exercises help you stay limber so you can have a full range of movement and avoid injury. Balance training becomes important after age 50, so you can prevent falls and stay active.

PA4Age mobile app accompanies the e-learning platform of PA4Age project to promote the possible use and adaptation of the learners to the training material as well as the validation of the training and educational content. The PA4Age (Promotion Of Physical Activity For The Third Age) is a project funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union aiming at promoting physical activity, as one of the most important components in the notion of active ageing by changing older people's mindset, and encouraging their participation to physical activity at any form and intensity, and under any physical condition, for improving their quality of life in physical, mental and social terms.