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Soul happinesscomes easily once YOU believe you are beautiful! And, SIlver Sisters, you are sillver beauty! Robin Salls, Founder
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After two years of upheaval it?s time for a reset! Reset your goals! Reset your connections! Reset your priorities! Beginning with this winter?s 2022 issue, it is my plan to educate all of you as to how to maintain your health and fitness throughout the year. All the core elements such as: cardio, strength, flexibility and how to balance fitness and life as menopause approaches and beyond. Muscle tone begins to deteriorate in your 20?s. Most 20 somethings don?t realize this is beginning because their life and vigor has reached its peak. For those who are actively engaged in sports or any kind of physical fitness, there is no need to worry. However, for those who sit at a computer all day and don?t take time out to move, stretch or strengthen, the soft tissue in your bodies will begin to decline. It happens slowly, but it does happen. Even more so, after all the hormones that keep us young have declined, our need to keep moving becomes amplified. It is never too late to begin. Regardless of your age, muscles respond to stimulus. Increasing flexibility through stretching will help sustain muscle tone. Stretching lengthens muscle fibers enabling more force with each contraction. It is possible to stretch tendons and ligaments also; however, tendons are not as flexible as muscles. In fact tendons and ligaments, if overstretched, can be easily injured. Recovery from this type of trauma takes time to heal and can be quite painful. A way to guard against overstretching a tendon or ligament is to make sure you feel a stretch in your muscles, not joints. It also matters how you stretch. For instance, if you stretch your quadricep, you don?t want to feel a strain or pull in the knees or hip joint. If you do, you can be certain you are stretching the ligaments and/ or tendons. This could potentially weaken the joint which might cause an injury. Be sure you feel each stretch in the
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muscle group targeted. The main t ypes of st ret ches include: 1. St at ic st ret ching which is useful for lengthening muscle fibers without invoking the stretch reflex. To perform this stretch, simply hold a limb at length for a minimum of 15 to 30 seconds. 2. Ballist ic st ret ching is not usually recommended because it is easier to injure oneself with bouncing and pulling the muscle past its stretch limits.
3. Dynamic st ret ching puts the muscle through the range of motion particular to a sport. Athletes often use this when training for an event. 4. Propriocept ive neuromuscular facilit at ion or PNF, enables stretching to reach a further limit with the use of breath. Each breath takes the static stretch a bit further to enable a safe, effective lengthening without activating the stretch reflex. Both static stretching and PNF are safe and most effective. A 3-5 minute warm-up before stretching will ensure the safest, most effective muscle tone. Stretching can reduce overall feelings of pain or stiffness. Each time the muscle lengthens, the distance it can contract becomes greater. This will keep the fibers strong. Long, strong muscle fibers will noticeably reduce the risk of injury. Also a muscle that has a longer distance to contract has more power than a shorter one. If you think of a rubber band, this is essentially how muscles work. When you pull back slightly, the band won?t contract with much force, but when pulled to a greater length, the retraction has more movement potential. WINTER 2022
MEET CARLA 49 | Graphic Designer | Silver Since 2014
?Oh my God, you want to look 30 years older. With what it costs us to try to look younger and you want to look like a 70-year-old lady. Amazing! Do you really think you're better than before?I see very well, like a woman of 70 or 75 years old, well carried away.? Let me begin by presenting myself. My name is Carla Martin, I?m 49 years old. I was born in Mexico City where I´ve lived almost all of my life. I´m a graphic designer, I'm married and we have two amazing kids and two cats. I started having grey hairs in my teens, I never felt ashamed but I didn't want them to be seen either. I started coloring my hair when I was 18 just for fun. In my early 30´s my hair was 50%grey and I went blonde trying to disguise my greys. My hair had no shine, it was always damaged and if I wanted it to look good I had to style it.
@silvergirlmx | MEXICO I started looking for women with grey hair that were younger, that's when I found Sarah Harris and fell in love with her long grey hair. It took me a year to convince myself. I bleached my hair to the lightest color, it got extremely damaged and had to cut it. That was my last hair dye. 7 years dye free, I usually get many compliments and others like the quote on top. Grey hair doesn't make us look older, the association of grey=old has to change. I'm so tired of seeing grey haired women only as the grandma in ads, or the couple looking for insurance, health care, etc. I opened my Ig account to share about my hair, beauty, hairstyles, haircare and I´m always trying to show everyone that grey hair is normal. Grey hair is my superpower, I f eel f ree, love myself and do what makes me happy. There are no rules to f ollow, I do things f or myself , I don't need to f it into ?beauty standards?. If people think I look older I don´t care, I know it's their own insecurities and not mine. I´m not afraid to shine.
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Hi there! My name is Mireya, and I?m a commercial actor & model at the age of 51!
As far as I can recall of my earliest childhood memories, both my parents, especially my father, have always had some degree of gray. Gray had always been normal to me, so the first time I plucked one out of my head, I was 7 years old. I remember vividly, I was on the playground and noticed a long strand shining amongst my long dark hair.
Moving forward, I was married at 18, had my son at 19, then my daughter at 22. It was then, soon after my daughter was born, I started to notice lots of gray in my hair, however, I did not mind it. It wasn?t until I was 24 and my then female boss was looking over my shoulder at work, and commented ?hmm, for such a young woman, you have a lot of gray.? I just laughed it off, but inside I was embarrassed and ashamed; I did not want to llook like an old lady with young children. That was the turning point to start dying it to my ?natural?color. At first it was every month and a half the first few years, until turning one month shy of 42, I was dying it every TangledSilverMagazine.com
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I don?t believe in luck, however I believe that my higher power (GOD) my story was written before I was even born. Never in a million years did I ever fathom being an actor, much less a model. I?m the daughter of immigrant parents from Mexico; I was brought to the U.S. at the tender age of one and half years old. My first language is Spanish, and I was raised in East Los Angeles.
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Ringing in t he New Year wit h t hought s, ideas, reviews and st ories t o soot he t he soul, repair t he hair and refresh your skin. Slipping into the cooler days from the colorful season our skin is facing harsher weather. Blasts of air, heated showers, and risen room temps all have an effect on our skin. Skin can become sensitive even if we are not prone to being reserved with product choices and procedures. After a trial with Dr. Gross products and DRMTLGY this sensitive texture was impressively resurfaced and resurrected with a new and stronger surface. The Vitamin C and Needles Serum from DRMTLGY was a great addition to my routine. The line that was a game changer for me was Dr. Gross. This line offers a rigorous experience but with results that are non-damaging with professional results. This past season also brought out the masks and probably one of the best products on earth is Caire. I can honesty say I understand 'plump' skin when I use this. I found the small desert like lines on the apples of my cheeks completely disappeared. Not an easy claim but literally a gem of a find. After the feeling of stripping down to a new canvas, yet being an oiler girl at heart, I had to replenish that healing touch. A few of my favorite oils are In Your Face, Josie Maran and mostly homemade concoctions with a carrier oil and Young Living. I am always on the search for innovative oils partnered with other ingredients for added benefits although, I do love a 'plain jane oil most. Adding to the oil rub learning about the face stones like gua-sha I have come to love this technique on a daily basis. This helps alleviate headaches while maintaining skin suppleness. This is exercise for
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