Getting a little physical exercise into your day is good for almost every aspect of your health. If you can afford to make regular weight training sessions along with a few good runs part of your weekly routine, you’ll be in great standing for a long and healthy life.

If you can’t get these rather intense forms of exercise in, fear not, as they’re not the only way. Naturally, as we get older, bench presses and weighted squats start to get a bit unrealistic. It’s then that we need to turn to other forms of exercise, which might simply include walks, jogs, and getting your groove on to some good music. The New York Times has more:

More people are living longer these days, but the good news comes shadowed by the possible increase in cases of age-related mental decline. By some estimates, the global incidence of dementia will more than triple in the next 35 years. That grim prospect is what makes a study published in March in The Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease so encouraging: It turns out that regular walking, cycling, swimming, dancing and even gardening may substantially reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s.

“For the purposes of brain health, it looks like it’s a very good idea to stay as physically active as possible,” says Cyrus Raji, a senior radiology resident at U.C.L.A., who led the study. He points out that “physical activity” is an elastic term in this study: It includes walking, jogging and moderate cycling as well as gardening, ballroom dancing and other calorie-burning recreational pursuits.

Simply living longer is not the goal if it means more of us suffer from cognitive decline. We need to keep our minds here with us, and that takes work. Check out the full post for more.

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