A sedentary lifestyle is a lifestyle you will want to avoid.

A sedentary lifestyle is a term used to describe a type of lifestyle that lacks physical activity.

When you retire your lifestyle changes and these changes can affect your health, fitness and your ability to maintain your independence as you get older.

The average person has spent more than 40 hours a week at work. This provided them with both physical activity and structure in their life.

You lose this when you retire and if you do not introduce some type of physical activity back into your weekly routine, you will be at a high risk of suffering the lose of your health, mobility and independence.

A sedentary lifestyle is a major cause of death, disease and disability.

Inactivity will accelerate the aging process, pushing you even further into an unhealthy and inactive lifestyle.

Your muscles will deteriorate, your aerobic capacity will deteriorate and you will have less stamina, strength and the flexibility that you will need to maintain your independence later in your retirement.

An inactive lifestyle puts you at a greater risk for obesity, and for developing high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, certain types of cancer, osteoporosis and can bring on symptoms of anxiety and depression.

Note: Cardiovascular related diseases account for more deaths in North American and most European countries than any other.

Men and women retiring today are more likely to live longer than any generation before them.

Keeping active now will be even more important for you to keep your body and mind functioning at a level that will allow you to maintain your independence and accomplish all the thing you are planning for.

Growing old is not your enemy.

Senior Golf will help you look at retirement not as the end of employment, but as the beginning of life’s second phase.

Different types of physical activities focus on different functions of your body and engaging in each type will be most beneficial to you.

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