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The Best Exercise to Sculpt Your Arms

Arm toning workouts for women over 50 don’t just sculpt your arms, they strengthen the upper body. These benefits affect your everyday life — supporting your bones, improving your posture, and reducing your chance of injury. The LivingBetter50 fitness team has highlighted the best exercises for toned arms and steps

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Tips From Fitness Experts to Ease Back into a Fitness Routine

 It goes without saying that while Christmas is an enjoyable time spent with loved ones, it can be incredibly chaotic. As a result, many people lose their daily routine, with this impacting exercise. Not to mention, the festive period is filled with lots of food, which can cause feelings of

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Biking for Older Adults, a Great Fitness Option

Cycling has many fitness benefits for people of all ages. If it’s been a while since you hopped on a bike, you may be wondering if it’s a good choice for exercise in your later in life.  Biking is a low-impact workout that can help stay active while maintaining your

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Fitness Experts Reveal How to Master Common Workouts

Expert tips reveal the correct way to pull off workout moves, following new research that identifies the most common workouts featured in routines. The advice comes after an analysis of 100 of the most-watched workout videos that featured over 190 different moves, identifying the most common exercises that people are expected to

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5 Low-Impact Sports & Exercises to Improve Heart Health

Among Americans, heart disease still remains the leading cause of death. In fact, according to the CDC, nearly 6.2 million adults in the U.S. experience heart failure. This is where the heart muscle doesn’t pump enough blood and oxygen as it should. Though there are varying causes – including high blood

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How to Create a Home Gym with Minimal Space

Most of us don’t have enough space in our homes to have a separate home gym, so we have to improvise and create a dedicated exercise area in the space that’s available.  Contrary to popular belief, you don’t need masses of space to enjoy a good workout. As long as

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4 Ways to Reduce the Risk of Injury in Marathon Training

First and foremost, if you’re in the process of training for a marathon, huge congratulations are in order. After all, this is a huge feat that very few people in the world get to achieve. In fact, if you’re looking for exact stats – just 0.01% of the world’s population

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Tips That Can Make Staying Fit After 50 Easy

It’s never too late for you to begin focusing on yourself. Believe it or not, your 5th decade is the ideal time for you to make fitness a priority. The thing is, now that you’re a bit older, getting fit isn’t solely about looking your best – it’s also about

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LivingBetter50 – Top Online Fitness and Gym Programs

As LivingBetter50 celebrates 10 years of being the No.1 resource for women over 50 worldwide, we bring you our top 10 series. Just in time for Summer, LivingBetter50 is bringing you our top online fitness and gym programs. Get your beach body on for 2021. With the pandemic last year,

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How Hard Should Women Over 50 Exercise?

As a physical therapist, I am constantly asking my patients about the intensity of exercises I have them perform. It’s a needed question to assure I am making a patient work hard enough, but not so hard that I am harming them. The easy calculation in weight loss is, using

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Planning on Walking Outside This Spring?

Walking outside is an amazing form of exercise. Completely different from walking on a treadmill inside, walking outside provides both physical and mental health benefits. Not only does it raise our heart rate, but it also gets us in the sunlight and engages our brains. It has a powerful effect

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Cool Down and Recovery After Exercising

When we were younger, we could get away bursts of running and exercise. There was no stiffness or aches the day after exercising like there is as we get older and over 50. Our young bodies were full of energy and naturally recovered so quickly.  With our bodies needing more

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Are Women Over 50 Active Enough Working From Home?

Americans have been living through the pandemic for nearly a year now, and its effects are still manifesting in various physical ways. Whether it is the aches from slumping over a computer or contracting the virus itself, many women over 50 are feeling the impact of working from home. Working

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5 Weight Training Benefits for Women Over 50

It’s almost a given. Mention training with heavyweights to a person of any age and many of them will cringe and respond, “But I don’t want to bulk up.” It’s absolutely understandable that lots of folks have no interest in looking like a two hundred fifty pound powerlifter. But the

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Physically Active Women Over 50 Are Mentally Healthier

With coronavirus cases rising, physical activity is as important as ever for the physical and mental health benefits it delivers. Researchers ranked states according to the percentage of adults who are physically active. The correlation between the physically active states and the mentally healthy states is very apparent, and it

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Holistic Approach to a Happy and Healthy Holiday Season

The holiday season comes at us women over 50 like a bullet train each. This year more than ever we need to start preparing for it and take a holistic approach. LivingBetter50 has some tips on how to approach the season regarding workouts, meals, and mental health.  Now is the

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Many Women Over 50 Are Using E-Bikes

One of the hottest forms of transportation for women over 50 frequenting beach towns this winter season is e-bikes. Many men and women over 50 in towns like Delray Beach, FL  are using e-bikes to get around town, go to the beach, and out for some fun. There is a

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Best Body Workouts for Women Over 50

Women over 50 are no longer fitting the stereotype. Look at super-fit celebrities like Jennifer Lopez, Halle Berry, and Jennifer Aniston. These women didn’t get fit or maintain their body shape by going through the motions with their exercise routines. To look great in the best jeans for women over

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Don’t Let Your Age Define You

Do you ever get out of bed and feel an ache here, a pain there, and wonder “where did that come from?”. Or how about the first time you got down on the floor and noticed it wasn’t so easy getting back up? Our modern lifestyle revolves around too much sitting,

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