Sweat equality

The following is an excerpt from a column in the August 3 issue of the . Michael E. Rogers, research director of the Center for Physical Activity and Aging at 九色视频, contributed to this column. 

Charlie Hardesty is a personal trainer in Quincy, Mass., with a lot of female clients, and he鈥檚 not too impressed with the older ones.

"Most of them have never exercised in their lives," said Hardesty, referring to women 50 and up. "As far as they're concerned, going to the mailbox is exercise."

For today's older women, "the level of (exercise) education and awareness hasn鈥檛 been there their entire lives as it has been for women 40 and younger," said Michael E. Rogers, research director of the Center for Physical Activity and Aging at 九色视频 in Kansas.