Exercise Aging

The Complete 2-in-1 Senior Exercise Collection brings you two best-selling wellness guides for adults over 60 who want to move better, feel stronger, and stay independent.

Are you an older man looking to finally get in shape and improve your health? The pursuit of fitness used to be mainly a goal of the young. But with the advancing age of the baby boomer generation, more and more older adults are becoming interested in fitness. There is increasing awareness among older Americans that many health indices can be improved through age appropriate strength training. These include weight and body fat loss, decreased blood pressure, decreased insulin resistance, improved mental sharpness, improved physique and increased muscle mass and strength. Author Peter S. ...

According to Duke University's School of Medicine researchers, people start losing lean muscle and bone density at just 30 years of age. By age 50, your strength, balance, and endurance have already begun to wane.

In Tai Chi & Qigong Balancing Exercises For Seniors, you will uncover the secrets of these ancient Chinese practices, now tailored for your golden years. This comprehensive manual demystifies Tai Chi and Qigong and delivers a host of enriching benefits right to your doorstep. Dive into the philosophy of Yin and Yang, the life energy of Qi, and learn how these principles can transform your whole existence.

It’s never too late to start stretching exercises for health, strength, and mobility! Do you find yourself getting stiffer and more tense with age? Do the active hobbies you used to love suddenly cause you pain or injury? Regular stretching keeps our limbs flexible, elongated, and healthy at any age. As we move from middle age into our senior years, it becomes even more important. In fact, a stretching routine will help build good posture, encourage muscle relaxation, and relieve many aches and pains. It can even improve your mental state through mindfulness and relaxation!

Coach Mike Chadwick is ready to help. This former Paratrooper tore up the British Army’s century-old approach to physical development and sent success rates soaring, before becoming one of the foremost coaches to the elite. In The Red On Revolution, Coach Mike exposes countless fitness industry myths and coaches you, personally, to succeed. Coach Mike doesn’t care about your past achievements, but he cares greatly about where you are now and your pathway to success.

Thriving Beyond Fifty is the word-of-mouth bestseller from physiotherapist and over-fifties health specialist Will Harlow, who has helped millions via the videos on his popular YouTube channel. If you’ve been told your problems are ‘just a part of getting old’ or you’re worried about becoming reliant on medication and missing out on the things you enjoy, this book is for you. Life expectancy rises every year, yet many of us experience health and mobility issues that impact our quality of life.

A 30-day anti-aging program for rapid results using the fundamental movements and principles of the best-selling Aging Backwards, featuring an accelerated program for turning back the clock. The field of aging research has exploded with new clinical findings. Many misconceptions about aging - including the beliefs that disease, immobility, and pain are inevitable - have been debunked. Today, we know that the choices we make, from what we eat to how much and how we move, play a critical role in healthy aging.

How to lose fat, gain muscle, and stay in shape without wasting ridiculous amounts of time in the gym even if you’ve never touched weights before. Regardless of your age or sex, you can build muscle and functional strength while optimizing your health without having to waste your time or money on the gym membership, expensive trainers, and magic supplements. Whether you are just getting started or have been training your entire life, Strength Training over 40 has you covered.

Want to feel young and strong without hard workouts or diets? For older folks, losing weight and staying energetic can seem tough. Regular exercises might be too hard, and gyms too scary. If joint pain, no motivation, or stress is stopping you, you're not alone. Michael Smith, a famous health writer, has a cool idea: Chair Yoga! It's easy yoga that you can do while sitting, to help you lose weight and enjoy moving again.

Spontaneous Healing.... Eight Weeks to Optimum Health.... Eating Well for Optimum Health.... The Healthy Kitchen–in each of his widely acclaimed, best-selling books, Dr. Andrew Weil has been an authoritative and companionable guide through a uniquely effective combination of traditional and nontraditional approaches to health and healthy living.

Whether it's taking a stroll through the park or traveling to exotic destinations, physical limitations can make it difficult to explore the world and engage in the activities that once brought you joy. But just because your body is changing doesn't mean you have to give up on your passions—with the right mindset and exercises within this guide, you can continue to stay active and embrace life's adventures at any age.

Many of us have forgotten how to move correctly. We live with muscular imbalances, constant pain and low energy. Adam Sinicki is on a mission to change this. He is best known for his YouTube channel The Bioneer, where he provides expertise on functional training, brain training, productivity, flow states and more. Currently popular functional training is exercise as rehabilitation. It aims to restore normal, healthy strength and mobility using compound and multifaceted movements.

Yoga's popularity is soaring, but its widespread acceptance as an exercise for physical fitness and the recognition of its health benefits have not been matched by an understanding of the emotional, intellectual, and spiritual development that the yogic tradition can also offer. In Light on Life, B.K.S. Iyengar explains this new and more complete understanding of the yogic journey.

This book is aimed at seniors interested in maintaining their health and well-being through exercise and healthy aging practices. Overall, the book aims to empower seniors with knowledge and practical advice to lead active, healthy lives as they age.

Feeling burned out, unmotivated, or stuck? The Ayurvedic Self-Care Handbook is here to help. This authoritative guide to ancient healing offers more than 100 daily and seasonal Ayurvedic rituals - each taking 10 minutes or less - to reconnect you with nature’s rhythms, and to unlock better health

When we think about muscle, we tend to think about strength or aesthetics, but in reality, muscle accounts for so much more than that. As the body's largest endocrine organ, muscle actually determines everything about the trajectory of health and aging. Many of the conditions Dr Lyon's patients were experiencing were actually symptoms of underdeveloped or unhealthy muscle. Now, Dr Lyon offers an easy-to-follow food, fitness, and self-care program anchored in evidence and pioneering research that teaches you how to optimize muscle - no matter your age or health background.

Building upon this critical work in Good Calories, Bad Calories and presenting fresh evidence for his claim, Taubes now revisits the urgent question of what's making us fat - and how we can change - in this exciting new book. Persuasive, straightforward, and practical, Why We Get Fat makes Taubes' crucial argument newly accessible to a wider audience.

I want to make sure that I am clear. You do not have to be someone who stretches every day or someone who exercises several times a week. This audiobook was made for the beginner who’s never used their body before to the moderately and advanced active man. This audiobook is your guide to a healthy, fully functioning body and a happy healthy life through stretching.

A Race for Life provides the listener with detailed information on the how and why a whole food, plant-based vegan diet works to dramatically lower the risk of breast cancer. Through her remarkable life journey, Dr. Ruth shares how practicing a healthy diet and lifestyle will give your body its best chance to reverse and prevent a recurrence of cancer and many other diseases.