KENTUCKY (1/18/19) — The following column is provided by Franklin Financial’s Weekly Market Commentary: Over the last couple of years doctors have made clear the benefits of regular physical activity, especially for older adults. In fact, adults 65 and older gain substantial health benefits from regular physical activity.1 Being physically active
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Wall Street Journal: A Tennis Purist Who Became a Pickleball Pro
What's Your Workout, by Jen Murphy, in the Wall Street Journal If you’re a hard-core tennis lover, it’s hard to take a sport called pickleball seriously. There’s the funny name. You serve underhand and hit something that looks like a Wiffle ball. Ken Curry snubbed the game for years. “I
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LIHUE — Curtis Allen was an avid outdoorsman. He loved to play pickleball with friends on the North Shore. Every week he drove down to Rob’s Good Time Grill to go swing dancing. He is a fine carpenter by trade and spent his life working with his hands. Then he broke
Bennington, Vermont: Quick Thinking Saves a Life On The Pickleball Court
MANCHESTER — The assistant director of Manchester's Parks and Recreation Department is being feted as a local hero for helping to save the life of a man playing pickleball this fall. At the end of September, Manchester residents who had been learning, practicing and playing pickleball at the Rec organized an
Morbidly obese and suicidal a year ago, Julie Nidiffer started playing pickleball — and dropped nearly 100 pounds (and her darkest thoughts) in 12 months
[From The Tennessean:]. Hey, Julie Nidiffer shouted over to her husband, Jerry, in their Bellevue home a year ago, maybe we should start playing pickleball. They say old people can play it, so maybe fat people can, too. “Pickle what?” he said. The two laughed at the name. But it was a serious idea, one
Exercise Wins: Fit Seniors Can Have Hearts That Look 30 Years Younger
We know we need to exercise for our health, but a lifelong exercise habit may also help us feel younger and stay stronger well into our senior years. In fact, people in their 70s who have been exercising regularly for decades seem to have put a brake on the aging