Exercise at Home for Seniors
Seniors can exercise at home with easy exercises using small weights and their own body weight for an efficient and effective workout. To exercise at home you will need an armless chair and small weights to get started. Start today and begin to exercise at home for improved leg strength, better balance, greater flexibility and […]
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Body-Weight Exercises for Seniors
Body weight exercises for seniors do not require free weights or resistance training equipment. You can maintain your fitness with simply the weight of your natural body. Certainly in the old-fashioned days, we had no gym equipment and relied on our daily chores to keep strong and healthy. The great part of exercising without equipment […]
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Top 5 Things to know – Physical Activity Guidelines For Older Adults
Here are the top 5 things to know about the Department of Health and Human Services recently released 2nd Edition of Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans. The first guidelines were published in 2008. Since then even more scientific studies have confirmed how important activity becomes as we age. 1. Moderate-intensity activity The new guidelines continue […]
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3 Standing exercises for building better balance
When we walk outside the house, there is one thing you can be sure of…the ground will change. Yes, once we move through our front door we will encounter, cement, grass, gravel, and even sand. So how do we prepare for these uneven surfaces, as we call them. Remember that we have three systems that […]
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Improve your balance with the single leg stance test
To improve our balance we need to think of ourselves as athletes. What do athletes do to improve their abilities in a specific sport? They train. Standing on one leg is a great way to test our balance and also train our balance system. This is really the simplest way to improve or maintain good […]
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How to Recover From A Fall
I was asked by a reader to show a way to get up from the ground after a fall. It is a good idea to practice getting up from the ground just in case you someday need to do that. Watch the video and give it a try. https://youtu.be/u4ujwfRR7-AVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is […]
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Bo Yoga For Balance With Nate Guadagni
Today I am very happy to have Nate Guadagni on the show. Nate has been teaching yoga, Qigong and meditation full time for over thirteen years and is the founder of Bo Yoga®, a rapidly growing health and wellness system. His mission through Bo Yoga is to make mindful movement accessible to all people by […]
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How to Exercise More With Less Time: Interval Training For Seniors
Today we’re going to look at endurance. As you know endurance is part of the four pillars of senior fitness. And that includes strength, flexibility, balance and endurance. https://youtu.be/nHCi3qb9JIIVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: How to Exercise More With Less Time: Interval Training For Seniors (https://youtu.be/nHCi3qb9JII) Endurance is one of the areas that’s […]
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Benefits of Exercise : Why You Need to Exercise Consistently
In today’s post I use some props to demonstrate the benefits of exercise. As I have said many times on eldergym.com, and in many email questions, we must be consistent with exercise or the benefits will eventually disappear. How is that possible? Watch this video and I will explain everything. Here are all the benefits […]
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