Strength Training For Seniors: A Quick Guide For You
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“Strength training” and “seniors” does not sound like a probable match, but in fact it is a match made in heaven. The mere thought of people who are past their physical prime pumping iron might seem vain or ludicrous, but millions of seniors are discovering the manifold benefits of strength training, and the medical community continues to produce studies showing that those who dare to incorporate strength training in their weekly routines gain all sorts of physical and emotional benefits.
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Strength Training For Seniors - The Blokehead
Strength Training
For Seniors
A Quick Guide For You
The Blokehead
Yap Kee Chong
8345 NW 66 ST #B7885
Miami, FL 33166
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Copyright 2015
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1 Why Strength Training?
Chapter 2 A Program For Strength Training
Chapter 3 Suggested Exercises And Approach
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CHAPTER 1
WHY STRENGTH TRAINING?
Strength training
and seniors
does not sound like a probable match, but in fact it is a match made in heaven. The mere thought of people who are past their physical prime pumping iron might seem vain or ludicrous, but millions of seniors are discovering the manifold benefits of strength training, and the medical community continues to produce studies showing that those who dare to incorporate strength training in their weekly routines gain all sorts of physical and emotional benefits.
Unfortunately, many seniors discover the wonders of strength training while doing rehabilitation after a surgery or a fall. You don’t have to wait until you experience a health crisis to begin doing strength training. In fact, starting a regular strength training program could prevent many of the crises that force seniors to do workouts with weights.
As more and more people live to older ages, more and more practices formerly thought of as being just for young people are creeping into older age categories as well. Seniors sky dive, seniors ski, seniors dance and seniors even get married and go on honeymoons. There’s no reason why you as a senior cannot take up a strength training regimen, and it might not take as long as you think.
As more seniors begin to do strength training, they are finding that they feel better, look better and, in many cases, they are living longer as they get stronger and fitter. If the thought of any kind of exercise makes you feel a little ill, take heart. You can design your own program with the types of exercises that you enjoy and tone the parts of your body that you care about most.
Forget the images you have of muscle-bound men in Speedo swimsuits prancing around a gym or on stage during a body-building contest. Think instead of a group of happy seniors lifting light weights at a community center or in a hospital rehab room. Strength training is for all ages once the bones can sustain the strain (usually in pre-teen years), and its benefits accrue no matter how old you are (or