Pickle-Ball tips for Seniors

1. Don’t red line your heart by working out to exhaustion.
   
2. Use lower intensity, endurance-type exercise such as bicycling, swimming and jogging slowly as cross training.  Cross training is what makes you stronger and more fit.   More pickleball just gives you overuse syndrome.
   
3. Drill on the pickleball court part of the time and play part of the time.
   
4. Sit down and rest when you get tired.
   
5. Nap if possible.
   
6. Eat healthy foods like green leafy vegetables, fresh veggies, fresh fruit not juice.  Leave out carbs with white sugar.  A banana, low fat yogurt and a bagel for breakfast is not a balanced healthy way to hit the pickleball court.  Why not? Any low fat product has more sugar in it (not more calories, but more sugar).  A banana converts to sugar and a bagel is starch (which converts to sugar).   Put a little almond butter and banana on the bagel or tuna on the bagel for some added protein.
7. Stretch after you exercise.  Stretch all the time.   Stretching even a little goes a long way for your health.
   

Hope this helps,

Dr Timm