Osteoporosis Update

Did you know that weight-bearing exercise are important for bone strength, particularly if the activity causes lots of impact on your bones (such as when you land on your feet). The movement causes your muscles to pull on your bones, and this causes your bones to renew themselves and get stronger.
Muscle-strengthening exercise helps with bone strength too. And strength and balance exercises also help to prevent you falling over and breaking a bone, especially as you get older.

‘Exercise that’s good for your bones
Bones stay strong if you give them work to do.
For exercise to be most effective at keeping bones strong, you need to combine:
• weight-bearing exercise with impact
• muscle strengthening exercise
Variety is good for bones, which you can achieve with different movements, directions and speeds – in an activity like dancing for example. Short bursts of activity may be best, such as running followed by a jog, or jogging followed by a walk.
Weight-bearing exercise with ‘impact’
You are weight bearing when you are standing, with the weight of your whole body pulling down on your skeleton.
Weight bearing exercise with impact involves being on your feet and adding an additional force or jolt through your skeleton. This could be anything from walking to star jumps.
You can get weight bearing exercise with impact by taking part in some physical activity, sports or by doing specific exercises. The level of impact varies depending on the activity’
https://theros.org.uk/information-and-support/bone-health/exercise-for-bones/