Author: Irene Pastore

Hello! I am a Personal Trainer, Yoga and Pilates Instructor who specializes in fitness after 50. My service is Live Streaming. Connect with me from anywhere in the world. I look forward to helping you achieve your health and fitness goals.

Managing Exercise in Seniors: Avoiding Overtraining

September 19, 2024

The benefits of regular exercise for older adults are well documented. But is it possible to overexercise? What happens when you do too much and how do you know if you’re doing too much?

The answer to this question is yes, you can overdo it. Too much of a good thing isn’t good. Use this checklist to determine if you’re doing too much.

Symptoms of Overexercising

  • Fatigue
  • Chronic colds
  • Loss of energy
  • Weight gain
  • Decline in stamina
  • Muscle soreness that lasts more than a few days
  • Repetitive injuries
  • Decline in exercise performance
  • Poor sleep
  • Muscular strains and pains
  • Overuse injuries
  • Reduced appetite

Solutions

  • Reduce exercise time
  • Reduce vigorous exercise days
  • Schedule resting days for lighter exercise such as Yoga, Stretching or Tai Chi
  • Discontinue exercises that are not suitable for you
  • Be sure you have sufficient strength to perform your favorite recreational sport
  • Include core strength in your fitness routine, especially if you play golf, pickleball, tennis or baseball
  • Avoid keeping up with your younger self

Supporting Senior Dogs: Dental Care Insights

September 18, 2024

The Grey Muzzle Organization is a non-profit charity that raises money to provide dental care for senior dogs. Poor canine dental health makes eating painful and may even shorten a dog’s life.

Located in Raleigh, North Carolina, The Grey Muzzle Organization is the largest national nonprofit organization focused specifically on the well-being of senior dogs.

Click here to register at their website for upcoming webinars and to view past recordings.

Visit the website of The Grey Muzzle Organization Grey Muzzle.org .

Healthy No Sugar Apple Pie Recipe

September 17, 2024

In your quest to reduce, or eliminate added cane sugar, you’ve probably found out how difficult it is to avoid buying packaged food that isn’t sweetened.  The same is true for recipes.  Here’s one I found at allrecipes.com for No Sugar Apple Pie.  See link below.

NO SUGAR APPLE PIE RECIPE

Ingredients

  • 2 (9 inch) pie crusts
  • 1 (12 fluid ounce) can unsweetened apple juice concentrate, thawed
  • 3 tablespoons cornstarch
  • 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
  • 6 cups sliced green apples

Directions

  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
  • Whisk 1/3 cup apple juice concentrate together with cornstarch and cinnamon in a small bowl. Set aside.
  • Simmer apples with remaining apple juice concentrate in a large saucepan until apples are tender, about 10 minutes. Stir in cornstarch mixture and continue to simmer until thickened. Remove from heat.
  • Spoon apple mixture into pastry-lined pie plate. Cover with top crust. Seal and flute edges. Cut steam vents in top.
  • Bake in the preheated oven until crust is golden brown, about 45 minutes.

AllRecipes.com: No Sugar Apple Pie Recipe

Lovable Lt. Columbo: Peter Falk’s Iconic TV Character and Legacy

September 16, 2024

The late actor Peter Falk (1927-2011) played one of the most beloved characters to appear on American television. Falk portrayed Lieutenant Columbo in the TV series Columbo from 1971 to 1978, winning four Grammy Awards. The show was reprised in 1983 and ran to 2003.

Columbo was a fictitious LAPD detective with a shabby and disheveled appearance, who wore a tan rumbled raincoat, brown suit and tie.

Falk was perfectly cast as the lovable, polite, unpretentious cop who loves his job and is unconcerned about clothing or the car he drives. His blue collar, cigar smoking underdog persona was a hit with TV viewers.

Reruns of the show are available today on You Tube , Amazon Prime Video and other streaming outlets.

Peter Falk passed away in 2011 at the age of 83 of Alzheimer’s.

Watch a YouTube video compilation of Peter Falk as Lt. Columbo in Columbo’s Best Gotcha Moments

Ringo Starr: Secrets to Healthy Aging at 83

September 13, 2024

At 83 former Beatles drummer, Ringo Starr leads a very healthy lifestyle. For the past 25 years he’s been a vegetarian and maintains a regular workout schedule. His advice is that you’ve got to keep moving.

Ringo has been sober for the past 34 years. At one low point in his life he was drinking 16 bottles of wine daily.

Ringo Starr’s health and fitness lifestyle was covered in an article at SurvivorNet.com. Here’s a direct quote from that article. “I go to the gym. I have a trainer who comes to my home three times a week. And I (work out) myself. On tour, usually I go at least four mornings a week to the gym. So, I think you’ve just got to keep moving and eating right. I do the best I can.”

Read more about Ringo Starr at SurvivorNet.com – Beatles Rocker Ringo Starr, 83, Shares His Healthy Aging Secrets: ‘You’ve Just Got to Keep Moving‘.