Page 8 - Spanish Insight - October 2019

IF YOU reST, YOU rUST!

By Naomi Diestro

It’s October and here we are into decrepitude, we simply must our bodies more and our brain
in autumn already, can you override any default setting to be less.
believe it? Friends and family sloth-like. Remember that quote Dementia was the leading cause
have come and gone and the from Socrates? – ‘Those who of death in England and Wales
lethargy-inducing summer heat think they have no time for bodily last year – shockingly, one
that rendered us bone idle has exercise will sooner or later have person is developing it every fun!! The energy-boosting moves
now passed, so we can move to find time for illness’. three minutes. A recent report are gentle but effective, and
on from feeling like the stuffing’s It’s especially important for reckons that as much as one there’s no pressure on anyone to
been knocked out of us and get anyone feeling defeated or third of cases could be prevented do anything they’d rather not.
moving again ... right? overwhelmed by life’s issues. by diet, lowering blood pressure It’s also a social activity; we like
Autumn can also be an excuse The NHS website confirms that and, yes, exercise. to meet up for a chat over coffee
to slip into couch-potato mode many GPs prescribe exercise Ever visited Nerja’s Sisters of the afterwards. Many come regularly
and adopt a mañana (as in ‘not as a treatment for a range of Good Samaritan residential care and it’s always cheering to see
today’!) attitude towards getting conditions, including depression. centre and spent time with those firm friendships being made.
ourselves fitter. It’s true that the Take a tip from Dale Carnegie, poor stroke victims and other Whatever activity you plump
less you do, the less you want famous lecturer and writer of residents who have literally lost for, it absolutely must be a
to do, but if we can try to help books such as ‘How to stop their minds? It’s one heck of a pleasurable experience otherwise
dodge those nasty diseases and worrying and start living’, who sobering reminder for us to at the temptation to chuck it in will
chronic conditions, and put the said that if we’re worried about least attempt to save ourselves be forever there. It’s got to be
brakes on the dreaded descent something, we should exercise from this terribly sad fate. Of a way of life. We owe it to our
course, nothing’s guaranteed, far bodies; it’s the best gift we can
from it, but we’ll certainly improve give ourselves, so go on, go for it!
our odds. Remember what they Good luck!!
say: if you rest, you rust - there’s
no time like the present, so come Move It To Music! classes start
on people, let’s get moving! Saturday the 19th October,
For any reluctant exercisers out 11 am, at Time Sport Gym in
there, listening to some of your Nerja (on the main Nerja-to-
favourite tunes is sure to get Maro road opposite Iranzo
your toes tapping and your hips supermarket).
wiggling – any movement is
better than no movement, after Naomi Diestro is a qualified
all ... Exercise to Music instructor.
How does a bit of exercise to For further information,
music grab you? I run a Saturday you can call/WhatsApp 675
MOVE IT TO MUSIC! morning dance fitness class here 846 217, or send an email:

Moveittomusic@yahoo.co.uk.
in the winter months because
I badly love pop music (I have If you haven’t exercised
Nerja’s gentle, informal & fun to hear it every day) and it’s my recently, it’s advisable to get
chance to really let rip and fill my
the thumbs-up from your
dance fitness class boots, boogying on down to my local GP before starting any
exercise programme.
favourite catchy tunes … it’s such
Groovy tunes – Graceful moves – Good times!
Starting 19th October BENEFITS OF AEROBIC EXERCISE

through to Easter It improves your …
Cardiovascular health, blood pressure and blood sugar levels,
Saturdays, 11am-12noon mood and sense of wellbeing, energy levels, motor skills,
posture, balance, co-ordination, agility, skin’s appearance, brain
Followed by an optional catch-up over a cuppa function, sleep quality, strength, muscular endurance, bone
Time Sport Gym, Nerja (Avda de Pescia, 21) density, flexibility, confidence, immune system, self-assurance,
lifespan and its quality
5 € per class And improves your chances of …
Maintaining weight, making new friends, building strong muscles
Come with water & towel, and bones, relieving pain, dodging chronic diseases and
wear trainers & something stretchy reducing asthma attacks (it lessens their severity and frequency),
fighting off infection
See you there!
Lift your spirits with this
joyful, feel-good workout!

m: 675 846 217 / moveittomusic@yahoo.co.uk
Classes held in English / No gym membership required
/ Qualified instructor

If you haven’t exercised recently or have a medical
condition it’s wise to get your doctor’s prior approval

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