Essential exercises to keep your joints healthy and strong.
We often find that our mobility begins to decline as we age.
Weight training can be a game changer for your joints. If you’re under 50 and reading this, keeping your joints in shape might not seem like something that you’ll have to deal with any time soon. But even if your mobility isn’t suffering, it’s never too early to start thinking about how to future proof your body and how to keep your joints strong.
If you begin searching for strategies to help keep your joints healthy, you’ll be met with a variety of differing opinions. Stretch, don’t stretch, Lift weights, don’t lift weights. Try calisthenics, don’t do calisthenics. You get the idea. The internet has a plethora of opinions, and it can be tough to narrow down exactly what plan is right for you.
We hope to make that a little easier.
On this episode Nutrition World founder, Ed Jones, shares how he’s maintained healthy joints after numerous years of exercise. He lays out seven essential exercises (with visual references) to help you understand just how easy keeping your joints strong can be.
Ed’s practical tips and encouragement will inspire you to take charge of your health journey, whether you’re a fitness enthusiast or just starting on your wellness path. You’ll gain valuable insights on how to age gracefully, stay active, and enjoy a fulfilling life at any stage.
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The recipe to stronger joints is surprisingly simple. Using high loads in exercises that don't hurt the joints. If you're passive, sitting at home, starting to lift really makes life feel better. You can't fathom before you start, how much more enjoyable it is to not have headaches due to upper back/neck tension, being able to hold items at arms length, carrying the groceries with ease. Some nuance that wasn't mentioned about free weights: they demand you to keep your balance in posture. But farmer's carries should be in the list if you worry about groceries. Benching, deadlifting and squatting aren't much more helpful to carrying groceries than isolation exercises that build your muscle volume and strength. On the other hand when your technique is on point, you aren't that much challenged with deviation from the stiff stick body. Unlike slipping on ice with groceries might be. For that you want to focus on core training, explosive rotations like medical ball, or resisting torque like cable/banded walkouts. To be fair gym was never efficient for me in that regard, it was judo that built good core and body control. Also it's worth it to consider including exercises (if your program has room) that are unilateral. Having to keep your body in check during unilateral squats and other movements helps with that scariest thing, having an unexpected slip. That's mainly core control and having a stable foot (which is also a progression and thing to be learned, if you've used narrow shoes for your whole passive life and your foot is now curved and unused to pushing on a wide base). Unilateral exercises can be tough at the beginning especially if you have movement limitations and have been passive. But it's a nice potential goal, that control is useful. Lifting heavy also helps with bone density, not only joints and strength, so that's also nice.
thank you for your wise insight on this and i cannot disagree at all. farmers carries are incredible for real life strength. i wished i could add more to the video but this was a level one or two for the public as i get so many asking "how do i start and plan a workout". i will for sure escalate it next time.. ed j..