Canadian Health&Care Mall Lifestyle. Borje Salming: Not Getting Rusty
As we age, our body loses in the agility department. You get stiff back and stiff knees, and in men the age is manifested in so many more very discouraging ways. Don’t lose your heart, though. Canadian Health&Care Mall met with Borje Salming, a famous ice hockey player nicknamed ‘The King’ who used to play for Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings, to listen to what he has to say about staying in good form. Nearing his 64th birthday, The King still feels the need to stay on the move. He explained to Canadian Health Care Mall how these low-key physical activities help him to feel great and avoid many problems that men’s health is riddled with after sixties. 
Whether you’re running long distance races to keep fit or walk to pick berries and mushrooms in the woods, the ice hockey legend Borje Salming has a mantra: “The most important thing is that you think it’s fun.”
I usually say that one is getting rusty if one does not move and that it helps me to anoint the body.
Borje Salming is not exactly idle. Since hockey legend put his skates on the shelf in 1993, after a few closing years of AIK, he has worn his jogging sneakers with care. Immediately after the decision to end his hockey career Salming enrolled to several long-distance races. He did so to spur himself, but perhaps above all to keep up the physics and have the opportunity to train.
It is important not to “get rusty”
- I signed up for many races. I had declared that I had this incentive, now I have to work out, I cannot quit, says Borje Salming.
For Borje Salming, it is natural to keep going and it is something that personifies him, it is the desire to give himself the best possible conditions facing years in retirement. Borje refuses to sink into the sofa despite the knees and joints ache and he feels bad about the fact that his body does not get its natural lubricant.
I usually say that one is getting rusty if one does not move and that it helps me to anoint the body. When the body gained a lot like my bangs have so it’s even more important to keep going. Then I know that I will be able to stay agile with considerably more chances in the future.
But to feel good and live a healthy and active life there can be a far more modest exercise than endurance of a race. It is enough to get out on walks, perhaps most important of all is to know that what you do is both important for the body and at the same time a certain balance of the mind.
Move in everyday life
I think you have to think that what you are doing is fun. It can be content to go into the woods and pick mushrooms or berries. Without knowing if it has suddenly gone several mil. The most important thing is that you come out and move around a bit. It’s a good exercise and at the same time a balance. You can fish or go on adventures. One need not go that far. One can go north and stay at a hotel and take a walk every day. I think it’s dangerous to just sit down and enjoy and take it easy. Then there come the bad posture, stiffness and pain in the body. 
Borje Salming takes every opportunity he gets to move. He walks all the way to the central grocery store from his home, a walk of five kilometres. He is always happy to jog in the gym when he’s in town for meetings and loves travels north where he gets new experiences, enjoys nature and may go over mountains and deep valleys in search of game and fish. During the summer months he paddles his kayak and bikes and in recent years has also begun to consider what he eats more carefully.
Think about what you eat
I’ve never been fat or had that kind of problem, but as of recent I try to eat a little better. This does not mean that I am a slimming diet fanatic. More into whole foods.
Borje Salming trains two to three times a week and often feels that he gets hurt and strains the muscles and joints if it gets too numerous or too heavy workouts during a week. Nowadays it is the bike rather than running shoes that he sticks to. But getting out into the woods and hiking is sufficient for him to keep the good shape, believes Borje Salming, and reiterates his mantra: the most important thing is that you think it’s fun.
