If You Can Finish This 4-Minute Chair Workout After 60, Your Endurance Is Top-Tier

Building endurance is necessary for your overall wellness. After all, endurance gives you the stamina to lead an active life filled with daily tasks and hobbies. Endurance will help boost your physical and mental well-being while strengthening your lungs and heart. Get the picture?

“As we age, both muscular and cardiovascular endurance decline due to factors like muscle fiber loss, stiffer arteries, reduced heart efficiency, and decreased oxygen utilization, leading to less stamina, but consistent activity can significantly slow these changes, preserving much of the functional capacity,” explains Eric North, The Happiness Warrior—a wellness speaker, coach, and advocate redefining what it means to age with purpose, strength, and emotional vitality. “Key changes include muscle atrophy (especially fast-twitch fibers), decreased maximal heart rate, and stiffer blood vessels, impacting the heart’s ability to pump and deliver oxygen, though the bod...