Environment affects exercise routine

Pleasant surroundings and convenience to sites for walking, running, and biking are positive influences on senior exercise.

“Public-health strategies to promote physical activities are now strongly emphasizing the role of environmental influences to create opportunities to remove barriers to people being more active,” according to a report published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Among the factors that matter most to people considering outdoor activity are accessibility, opportunities for exercise, and pleasing surroundings. Major ingredients mixed into the decision associated with exercising regularly are convenience and easy access to bikeways, footpaths, health clubs, and swimming pools.

Safety also plays a role in the exercise equation. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention discovered Americans who perceive their neighborhood as unsafe are more likely to be inactive.

When urban women were compared with their rural counterparts, they were more likely to report lack of street lights, high crime rates, and lack of a safe place to exercise as barriers to physical activity.

Mature Life Features Copyright 2023 to improve. In January 1967, a mere four months after “Clarksville” introduced them to the world, the Monkees held their first recording session as a fully functioning, selfcontained band.

“The Monkees” TV show, though, was another issue entirely. By the end of the second season, the quartet had tired of the filming grind and pronounced the third-season scripts monotonous and stale. When they suggested a format change to a one-hour variety show, their idea was quickly squelched and the series was axed, which undoubtedly crushed countless teenage hearts.

During their two-year reign, though, when the foursome often successfully challenged the almighty Beatles, the Monkees sold more than 75 million records around the world.

Had they been just a bubblegum fantasy quartet, one that was never quite real, undeserving of any real respect? Not to everybody. Vanity Fair writer Mark Rozzo once opined, “They were a pop culture force. … They created joy and wonderment and introduced the whole realm of pop music to a huge audience of young people.”

Fort Wayne Area Community Band

WE HAVE A CONCERT!

February 21 • 7:30 p.m.

John & Ruth Rhinehart Center at PFW

Tickets: Adults $8, Seniors $7 Students under 18 FREE PFW Students FREE with ID Non-PFW Students $4 with ID FREE PARKING in garage across from music center.

Tim McCulloch, Owner