Your 'fitness age' mostly in your control  Mary Ganzel  Mary
Ganzel  We all want to look and feel younger than our years.
This is evidenced by the increase in cosmetic surgery for both
sexes and fads such as collagen and Botox injections. However,
there is a different way of staying young and it has nothing to
do with painful injections and surgery. Improving your strength
and fitness level can make you look and feel much younger than
your actual age.  The trend now is to focus on ones "fitness
age" and not just the number of candles on your birthday cake.
Fitness age is determined and measured by a number of factors:
muscle strength, body composition (muscle to fat ratio) aerobic
capacity, endurance, flexibility and balance. Even Jack Lalanne,
a pioneer of fitness and health, discussed his fitness age to be
29 when he was 85. What would you do to ensure at age 85 you
would feel like you did at age 29? Would you make different
lifestyle choices now?  Research indicates that 70 percent of
your fitness age is w