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

by Cindy Brehse and Tami Brehse Dzenitis

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1648766560
• ISBN13: 9781648766565
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Callisto
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Perfect and easy way to do simple but very effective movements that can keep you very flexible and h

A simple but effective guideline for everyone - not only for seniors (even though I am one). I thoroughly enjoy the book and its common sense "exercises."