Ease Up on Your Workout - Breathing Space Blog

Don’t work out so hard that you do lasting harm to yourself: The following news brief appeared in Newsday.com:

At nearly 60, injuries are taking a toll on Arnold: Time is catching up with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Ordinarily, a politician's body would not be noteworthy. But what's happening now is the deconstruction of one of the greatest bodies ever. At 15, Schwarzenegger began transforming himself into a symbol of physical perfection, eventually winning more bodybuilding prizes than anyone in history… Referring to himself as the "bionic man," he finds himself with an artificial hip, reconstructed heart valves, a surgically repaired shoulder and a badly broken femur, an injury common among the elderly.