Fiona Bruce, presenter of the BBC\u2019s Antiques Roadshow, looks like the poster-girl for healthy aging \u2013 but it hasn\u2019t always been that way. The 62-year-old says she felt \u2018mortified\u2019 after her GP was \u2018appalled\u2019 about her lack of exercise following the birth of her son Sam, who\u2019s now in his 20s.<\/p>\n
\u2018I never did any exercise until I went to see a GP before or just after I had Sam,\u2019 she told Woman And Home. \u2018When asked if I did any exercise, I said \u201cnone\u201d and the doctor replied \u201cLiterally none?\u201d I said \u201cno\u201d and I was mortified because she was so appalled!\u2019<\/p>\n
The presenter and newsreader took up running<\/a>, which she credits with maintaining her fitness and adds: \u2018To me, exercise isn\u2019t about living longer but it gives me energy and I don\u2019t know what I\u2019d be like without it.\u2019<\/p>\n If you\u2019re struggling to prioritise exercise, GH fitness expert Kim Hawley has this advice to make it easier. \u2018Try habit stacking<\/a>: adding small bursts of movement to things you already do every day,\u2019 she says. \u2018Always doing push-ups while the kettle boils. Taking the stairs two or three at a time. A dozen squats<\/a> every time you visit the bathroom. None of these take any planning, but together they create meaningful gains over time. The key is making them non-negotiable.<\/p>\n \u2018Another simple mindset shift is to plan the session to be easy as a rule. Thinking it will be hard before you\u2019ve even started can be a barrier in itself, whereas once you\u2019re moving and warmed up, you\u2019ll almost always do more than you expected.<\/p>\n \u2018Ultimately, healthy aging isn\u2019t built on occasional bursts of motivation,\u2019 says Kim. It\u2019s built on consistency. The aim is to make movement and exercise as automatic as brushing your teeth, because the small things you do every day will always have a greater impact than the big things you only do occasionally.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fiona Bruce, presenter of the BBC\u2019s Antiques Roadshow, looks like the poster-girl for healthy aging \u2013 but it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[1105,225443,1107,499,103,61,60,184510,1135,225442,223989],"class_list":["post-529459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-93557cee-e7f3-46ed-b267-d613341ab6b2","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-gb","tag-shorttitle-fiona-bruce-on-the-health-habit-she-wishes-shed-started-years-ago","tag-sponsored-false"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}