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Strength Training Past 50
: :Increase your strength to improve your health, your appearance, and your performance--with Strength Training Past 50! Strength training has numerous advantages for the active adult, including enhanced athletic performance and reduced risk of disease, including decreased symptoms of arthritis, diabetes, and osteoporosis. Strength Training Past 50 has everything you need to start enjoying these benefits or to jump-start your current routine: 63 exercises for both free weights and machines 14 workout plans for increasing size, endurance, and strength Sport-specific programs for running, cycling, swimming, ...
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Cycling Past 50 (Ageless Athlete Series)
: :Cycling Past 50 will show you that with proper training and the right attitude, your biking years after 50 can be your best ever. Inside you’ll find: • key training principles; • advanced workouts for endurance, climbing, and sprinting; • training advice for 100-mile events and multi-day tours; • strategies for getting into racing form; • tips and exercises for preventing injuries; • advice on proper body fueling; and • ideas on how to get mentally psyched to ride. This book is part of ...
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Age Defying Fitness: Making the Most of Your Body for the Rest of Your Life
: :THERE IS NO DOUBT that our bodies change with age, as the baby boomer generation is now learning firsthand. But many of the problems attributed to inevitable age-related changes are in fact not inevitable and are often lifestyle induced and reversible.In this new book, Moffat and Lewis show how to overcome the aches, stiffness, and unsteadiness in your muscles and joints. Using their simple, self-administered tests, you will assess your level of physical performance in these five critical domains: posture, balance, strength, flexibility, and ...
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Start Strong, Finish Strong: Prescriptions for a Lifetime of Great Health
: :The ultimate health program for those who want to live longer, healthier lives. Start Strong, Finish Strong means living the life we all want—now and as we age. It means a healthy heart, strong bones, and a quick mind. It means feeling great and looking younger than you did five years ago. It means making small but significant changes to your lifestyle that will revolutionize your life. With dynamite father/son combo Dr. Ken and Dr. Cooper, you’ll learn how to: · Add at least ...
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Yoga for 50+: Modified Poses and Techniques for a Safe Practice
: :As baby boomers pass age 50, problems with knees, ankles, and backs are leading them into lower-impact forms of fitness. The stress of career and later-in-life children also have them seeking new ways to relax. Combine these pressures and it is no surprise that yoga is increasing in popularity among the 50-plus crowd. Tailored specifically for this burgeoning population, 50+ Yoga offers a straightforward approach that makes it easy to learn yoga at any age.The book's adaptable program allows readers in good shape to ...
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How to Prevent Falls: A Comprehensive Guide to Better Balance
: :National award - winning book that is filled with over 107 large print pages of easy-to-follow, safe, fun exercises designed to promote better balance to seniors. This highly regarded, cleverly illustrated book highlights national senior fitness expert Betty Perkins-Carpenter's Balance System Techniques(r). This program of activities was developed specifically to enable seniors to improve their balance and their muscle tone. Of those who have mastered the system and sustained accidental falls, not one has been seriously hurt! You can expect the same results, just ...
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Growing Old Is Not for Sissies II: Portraits of Senior Athletes
from: Pomegranate Communications
: :This sequel to the best-selling Growing Old is Not For Sissies teaches us to reevaluate the popular associations of age with increasing malaise and infirmity. Instead, it presents 100 vital, compelling portraits of senior athletes accompanied by personal statements and poems on aging. Growing Old is Not for Sissies II is testament to the joy of physical activity and of living to a ripe old age. Fourth printing. By Etta Clark.
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Play Better Golf for Seniors
: :Specially designed for golfers over fifty, from the nation's premier golf school. From the powerhouse author team that created Play Better Golf and Play Better Golf for Women comes a comprehensive new book for the rapidly growing population of senior golfers across America. Mike Adams, known throughout the country as the 'Swing Doctor,' T. J. Tomasi, and Kathryn Maloney share simple, ingenious techniques for developing a swing that the senior golfer's changing body will allow. The dynamic 'Senior Swing' compensates for lost strength and ...
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After 50 It's Up To Us: Developing The Skills And Agility We'll Need
: :This enjoyable, personal and pragmatic book is written from original investigative research. After 50 ItÕs Up To Us: developing the skills and agility weÕll need is the book for you if you have questions about your skill and agility after 50. Together, the reader and Dr. Schofield explore pioneering lives after 50 and develop understanding through the engaging lives and stories of others after 50. This highly accessible book also provides the reader with the opportunity for practical learning exercises and personal awareness.
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Exercise for Older Adults: Ace's Guide for Fitness Professionals
from: Human Kinetics Publishers
: :Never before has there been such a demand for fitness professionals who recognize and understand the special needs of older adults. Written by top experts from the fields of exercise physiology and psychology, Exercise for Older Adults provides clear, comprehensive guidelines for fitness professionals who wish to better serve this growing community. Developed under the leadership of the American Council on Exercise, this practical manual shows fitness professionals how to provide safe and effective exercise instruction for older adults. It presents basic principles to ...
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