Seniors & Taekwondo

Seniors are naturally goal-oriented. This is largely due to life experience teaching adults that if you set and achieve certain goals, you will receive some reward. For example, if you go to work everyday and perform your job well, you will receive a paycheck. Seniors understand that martial arts training requires dedication and self-discipline. They know that if they learn, practice and perform well that they may be rewarded with belt promotion.

Seniors have the motivation to get fit and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Children do a fair amount of running around and get regular exercise to go hand-in-hand with their super metabolism. As we get older, however, our metabolism slows. We become more sedentary, usually because the bulk of a day is spent sitting at a desk or driving a vehicle,
etc., not allowing for natural daily exercise. Health issues like high blood pressure, obesity, or even just plain laziness can be improved with martial arts training. Learn martial arts at an older age and engage your memory with the challenges of remembering techniques and forms; improve cardiovascular health; maintain or re-gain strength and flexibility that naturally decreases with age. Sometimes, though, seniors can become depressed.

After they complain of loss of interest in previously enjoyed activities, isolation, and memory loss, many people take their older loved ones to a psychiatrist each year. The result is often the diagnosis of a cognitive problem such as dementia. However, before diagnosing dementia, it is important for doctors to rule out a diagnosis of depression, which can cause many of the same symptoms. Taekwondo can help!

For more information call:
Master Francisco Fiallos - 6th Dan
Spanish - 407-247-5583 | English - 407-697-9555
577 Deltona Blvd., Unit#11 | Deltona, FL 32725

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