Taking a brisk walk regularly can help lower your risk of health problems like heart disease or depression. Climbing stairs, calisthenics, or housework can increase your strength, stamina, and self-confidence. Weight lifting or strength training is a good way to stop muscle loss and slow down bone loss. Your daily activities will become easier as you feel better. Regular, active exercises such as swimming and running will raise your heart rate and may greatly reduce stiffening of the arteries.
Stiff arteries are a major cause of high blood pressure, which can lead to heart disease and stroke.
People who are physically active are less likely to develop adult onset diabetes, or they can control it better if they do have it. Exercise increases the body's ability to control the blood glucose level. Regular activity, such as walking or gardening, may lower the risk of severe intestinal bleeding in later life by almost half. Strength training like lifting weights or exercising against resistance, can make bones stronger, improve balance, and increase muscle strength and mass. This can prevent or slow bone-weakening osteoporosis, and may lower the risk of falls, which can cause hip fractures or other injuries.