today I'm going to show you a single exercise that they say it will determine
how long you'll live and I'm going to give you my take on what it means to us
as women over 50 and what we can do about it hi I'm Schella and welcome to
Fabulous 50's today I'm going to talk about a study that's been on the
Internet and this study from a doctor in Brazil says that if you can do this
particular exercise without any wobble or any strain and you score a 10 out of
10 it means that you'll live longer than people who can't do it and when I first
saw the study I was a little bit distressed because I watched the
exercise and thought that it might be good and well but it didn't take into
consideration a whole lot of factors that affect many of us on a day-to-day
basis the test is called a sit rising test and what you've got to do is cross
your feet and sit down without any assistance from your hand once you're
down stay for a couple of seconds and then rise again without any assistance
from your hands and the level of wobble and the amount of help that you need
determines your score so this is how the exercise is done okay so that's the
exercise now if you come down and you've got to sort of do this to get down you
lose a point and you lose a point for one hand on the ground another point for
another hand on the ground and if you get up with the use of your hands like
this or wobble you lose points for wobbling and the doctor found that his
patients who were older and had aerobic fitness so they could do lots of walking
or upstairs and downstairs without puffing out too much even though they
had a robic fitness they still had trouble doing this kind of exercise and
he studied this over many many years and found the patients who couldn't do it
died earlier and he's exact figures were if you score three or less your risk of
dying is five times greater within the next five years and then every point you
gain from three up there's a twenty percent decrease in mortality for all
causes so if you've seen this test you'll know that you can lose five
points going down if you wobble or need help and you can lose five points coming
up if you need help and wobble and you may not have been able to do that and
I've got to tell you that this is a difficult challenging exercise and what
I really didn't like about the report on the study as I said people older than 50
can't do this and it's kind of like again we're all being put in this big
basket as old people and that's just not true because we're not old we can do
this if we practice and the reason you may not be able to do this is a because
you've never practiced it before B you need balance and if you're not doing any
balancing exercises pretty much every day that skill won't be developed in you
plus you need to have your glutes activated to even get down and up with
this and many many people don't have that and if you've got sore knees and
you're not going to be able to do this at all without help but the really
important message here is us just hearing and seeing a study like that and
saying if you can't do it you're going to die earlier than everybody else
that is far more damaging and threatening to our longevity than
actually not being able to do the exercise because that's just putting a
false belief in our head that isn't true it is very very wise for us to be doing
exercises to keep our legs and our glutes strong and we can do that but I
don't want anyone believing if you can't do this you're going to die early that's
ridiculous and that's kind of how it's being reported so what I suggest you do
is to try the exercise first give it a go if you can't do it use a chair put
your chair here and then cross your legs and then as lightly as possible just
with your fingers just go down and then try coming up the same way use as much
pressure as you need to get yourself up and down
but only use your fingertips if you feel that you can do that come down and up
and that might completely exhaust you and if it does that's okay and if you'd
like to know if your glutes actually are activated I'm going to leave a link up
here to a video I did it's just a very quick test that you can do and if
they're not activated and you are over 50 there's some very very simple easy
exercises that you can do every day and then this is another thing that we can
do every day is to practice our balance and I'm going to start including balance
in all of the workouts so we get it in our head that we need to practice our
balancing so take one leg and just put it like this and whenever you're
standing around stand like this if you can and it doesn't matter if you have to
keep putting your foot down doesn't matter and then if you can do
that after a while and quite easily move your leg up to the middle and then just
sort of stand there whenever you've got time and just do this just a couple of
seconds a day every day will really help your balance and we need our balance to
be on point as we're getting older because one of the major things that
happens to older people is they fall when they have their force they can't
recover and a lot of the Falls are happening because of balance issues so
you can also bring your leg up higher and do this what I love to do is when
I'm cooking you just hold onto the bench and then let go and hold onto the bench
and let go and it's really a great way for you to be practicing your balance
and posture keep your shoulders back and try and keep your head up high but just
hold on whenever you need to hold on or hold on to that chair but if you can do
these two things so practice your balance and practice doing the up and
down with holding a chair you're going to build up your strength and build up
your balance and as women over 50 that is so key for us so instead of taking on
the belief that you're going to die early if you can't do something change
that belief right now to the older I get the better I get the stronger I get and
the wiser I get I hope this video was really useful to you please give a
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