Older Nordic walkers may have taken up Nordic walking after taking stock of their lives. That is, after looking at health numbers, quality of life, or personal directions, you may have added Nordic walking to your activities to improve your overall well-being.
Key takeaway: “Many people facing midlife now don’t want to blow up their lives, just upgrade them.”
Points:
- “Doctors, health resorts, meditation teachers and adventure travel companies say they are seeing growing numbers of people in their 40s and early 50s seeking to change their lives after having a midlife epiphany.”
- “…there is a growing awareness of how lifestyle influences health that is shaping many midlifers’ decisions.”
- “The midlife journey will be more difficult for a good chunk of them because of heightened problems of inequality.”
- “Canyon Ranch, which operates destination spas that offer preventive health care services, says it is seeing more midlife clients who are beginning to feel the signs of aging.”
- “'Midlife is the age where people kind of sit back and say, ‘Well, now that I’m all grown up, what do I really want to be?,”
Where are you in your reflections on life?
