Fitness for the Over Fifties
Posted on April 1, 2009
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As you become old, it doesn’t mean that you don’t require to do fitness exercises. In fact, you require them to a greater extent than ever. This way, your body will stay physically fit and combat particular health problems which elderly people are more than prone to have.
If you don’t trust these things, its time that you buy Marilyn Moffat and Carole Lewis’ book entitled Age Defying Fitness. This is a good book that will open your eyes to the importance of wellness and physical fitness as people age. You can get the book under $20 from leading bookshops and online bookstores.
Different individuals have various fitness levels. With the right physical healer or doctor, you will be supplied with your very own specific profile and assessment. This way, you can determine which physical exercises are suited to your level and years to achieve the most favorable wellness.
The physical body varies as a person becomes old, and there’s no doubt about that. Many elderly people are slowly realizing that and most of them can’t easily accept such fact. Changes related to an individual’s age is often induced, reversible, and inevitable.
With the aid of the book by Moffat/Lewis, individuals can now overcome almost all the aches, unsteadiness, and stiffness of their joint muscles. By using their self-administered tests which are very simple, you can now measure your physical performance level dependent on the five vital domains. The five domains are balance, posture, flexibility, strength, and endurance.
Based on the results of the tests provided, the authors are able to develop your personal profile. The book features very easy stretching and strengthening exercises that are largely based on the newest clinical enquiries. A Theraband is also included; it is a resistant band used in particular kinds of exercise.
Age Defying Fitness is not just the typical how-to reference book because it encourages its readers to take full responsibility over their physical wellness. Straightforward everyday approach is also proposed by the authors in order for the reader to achieve better health.
The book’s authors are widely recognized in their own fields. Marilyn Moffat is a physical therapist recognized internationally as a leader/professor at the University of New York. She also was the president of APTA or the American Physical Therapy Association for a term of six straight years. At present, she is currently involved in the World Federation of Physical Therapy’s executive commission. For nearly 40 years she is practicing her profession in the private sector.
Carole Lewis is also a physical therapist, and is the owner/founder of a large PT practice in Washington. She is a full-time professor in the Geriatrics Department of GWU (George Washington University). Lewis also released various articles and textbooks about aging.
The book is a really interesting read and the reader can value very much all the pictures and drawings. Many critiques have given Age Defying Fitness really high evaluations and they encourage other people, particularly aging baby boomers, to purchase the book.
Elderly people will probably get a low assessment on the tests, but if you continue learning, you might be able to pass the various tests supplied in the book.
