Low-impact Exercise Ideas for Anyone Over 40

1) Swimming

Find your nearest pool, lake, or ocean and get moving!

Few things are as powerfully effective, therapeutic, and easy on your body as a water workout. You’ll get the ease on your joints from the buoyancy, but you’ll still get all the effects from the resistance of the water.

Water workouts are often used in physical therapy, so along with no only being safe for those with injuries, it can also be immensely healing. It is also great for stress reduction and chronic pain management.

Within the genre of water exercise, there are many choices for you. There is simple water walking, underwater toning exercises, and lap swimming for the solo athlete, and a huge array of group classes, like water yoga, for those looking for a more social experience.