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5-Minute Core Exercises for Seniors: Daily Routines to Build Balance and Boost Confidence [Pehme köide]

  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 158 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 235x192x14 mm, kaal: 540 g
  • Sari: Exercises for Seniors
  • Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2021
  • Kirjastus: Callisto Media Inc.
  • ISBN-10: 1648766560
  • ISBN-13: 9781648766565
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 158 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 235x192x14 mm, kaal: 540 g
  • Sari: Exercises for Seniors
  • Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2021
  • Kirjastus: Callisto Media Inc.
  • ISBN-10: 1648766560
  • ISBN-13: 9781648766565
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Strengthen your core and boost your confidence with 5-minute exercise routines for seniors

Having a strong core can improve mobility, reduce aches and pains, prevent falls, and build everyday confidence. 5-Minute Core Exercises for Seniors makes it easy to incorporate daily exercise for seniors, with a collection of 40 individual movements and 25 quick routines for strengthening the major core muscles.

This guide to exercise for seniors helps you:

  • Get to know your core—Learn the muscle groups that make up your core, the benefits of keeping them strong, the importance of breathing and stretching, and the latest science behind exercise for seniors.
  • Enjoy a wide variety of exercises—Discover a range of seated, standing, on-the-mat, and weighted exercises that mimic everyday movement and don’t require any special equipment.
  • Follow step-by-step instructions

    —Find how-tos and illustrations for engaging the right muscles and preventing injury, as well as tips to increase or decrease the intensity of each movement to meet your needs.

Improve strength, balance, and confidence with this detailed introduction to core exercise for seniors.



Strengthen your core and boost your confidence with 5-minute exercise routines for seniors

Having a strong core can improve mobility, reduce aches and pains, prevent falls, and build everyday confidence. 5-Minute Core Exercises for Seniors makes it easy to incorporate daily exercise for seniors, with a collection of 40 individual movements and 25 quick routines for strengthening the major core muscles.

This guide to exercise for seniors helps you:
  • Get to know your core—Learn the muscle groups that make up your core, the benefits of keeping them strong, the importance of breathing and stretching, and the latest science behind exercise for seniors.
  • Enjoy a wide variety of exercises—Discover a range of seated, standing, on-the-mat, and weighted exercises that mimic everyday movement and don't require any special equipment.
  • Follow step-by-step instructions—Find how-tos and illustrations for engaging the right muscles and preventing injury, as well as tips to increase or decrease the intensity of each movement to meet your needs.

Improve strength, balance, and confidence with this detailed introduction to core exercise for seniors.
Introduction vi
Chapter One Your Core and you
1(12)
Learning Your Muscles
2(1)
Map of Major Core Muscles
3(1)
The Benefits of a Strong Core
4(1)
Don't Forget to Stretch
5(1)
Don't Forget to Breathe
6(1)
Exercise Myths and Mistakes
7(3)
Everybody Is Different
10(3)
Chapter Two The Exercises: Getting Active
13(82)
Seated Exercises
15(20)
Standing Exercises
35(20)
Mat Exercises
55(20)
Exercises with Weights
75(20)
Chapter Three The Routines: Putting It All Together
95(51)
Routines for Around the House
97(12)
Routines for Active Living
109(12)
Routines for Aches and Pains
121(12)
Routines to Do with a Partner
133(11)
The Future: Your New Daily Habit
144(2)
Resources 146(1)
References 147(1)
Index 148
CINDY BREHSE is an Athletics and Fitness Association of America (AFAA) and Silver Sneakers certified group fitness instructor, as well as a Golden Hearts Active at Any Age Senior Fitness Specialist. Shes especially focused on the challenges of the over-50 population, helping them use fitness to maintain a strong quality of life and a healthy, positive mindset.