Stretching Exercises for Seniors: Simple Movements to Improve Posture, Decrease Back Pain, and Prevent Injury After 60 (Strength Training for Seniors)

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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? Do you struggle with the range of motion for day-to-day activities like picking up your grandchildren?
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!
With “
Stretching Exercises for Seniors: Simple Movements to Improve Posture, Decrease Back Pain, and Prevent Injury After 60”, author and fitness expert, Baz Thompson, has provided a thorough guide to stretching for people over 60. The multitude of stretches inside cover every part of your body from the top of your head to the tips of your toes. Each exercise is presented in detail with a visual demonstration, and it’s explained specifically for older people. With tips, techniques, and practical advice, backed by the wisdom of doctors and physical therapists, the stretches in this book will make you feel as loose and limber as a teenager.
In Stretching Exercises for Seniors, you’ll discover:
How stretching can help us feel younger than our chronological age
Why stretching is absolutely essential for our joints, ligaments, and tendons
Exercises to increase functional mobility in the hip flexors, hamstrings, calves, and quadriceps
Ways to release tension in the neck, shoulders, and lower back
Morning stretches to release tension and wake up your body
Movements to warm up your muscles for exercise, biking, or gardening
Post-activity cooldowns to make your limbs more supple and flexible
Evening stretching routines to wind down and decompress before bedtime
Targeted stretches to make the hands, feet, fingers, toes, wrists, and ankles healthier than ever
Detailed explanations and illustrations, with modifications for stiff, tight muscles
And so much more!
You’re never too old to start stretching, and you don’t have to already be flexible.
Stretching Exercises for Seniors is written just for you, and it has all the information you need to stretch safely and effectively. Stretching is incredibly beneficial for your muscles, joints, and even your mind. When you start stretching on a regular basis, you’ll wonder why you didn’t start sooner!
Loosen up your body, improve your health, and feel younger than ever. Scroll up and one-click Stretching Exercises for Seniors now!
Review
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The stretches included in the book work on every part of your body from the top of your head to the tips of your toes. Each exercise is presented in detail with a visual demonstration (pictures). I can't figure why the people in the pictures are smiling though, since I never smile while exercising (not my favorite activity, so I'm a tough critic here). The most heartening thing I read was: "Chronological age is something we don't have control over, but our biological age is one that we exert some control by the choices we make." So you do have a say in how well you age if you invest time in yourself... and this book shows you how. I noticed that a majority of the exercises involve being on the floor or on your knees which many older people can't manage. I also think that it may be easier to have the program in a video or even audio format, although running back and forth across the room to read the next step was also exercise, right? Another good point is that the author includes warnings about what you should not do when doing the exercises, such as tilting the head back during neck rolls which could put excess compression on the neck and spine. All of these tips are important and helpful.
The beginning of the book gi