Strength Training Over 50: Stay Fit and Fabulous - Tapa blanda

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This step-by-step guide to increasing flexibility and resilience offers the key to feeling and looking great at every stage of life. An expert physical therapist presents more than 80 exercises, illustrated by 350 color photographs. Based on yoga, Pilates, tai chi, and other disciplines, the exercises are suitable for those recovering from an injury or surgery as well as for those seeking to maintain their fitness. "Highly recommended." — Library Journal.

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Strength Training: Staying Fit and Fabulous holds the key to feeling and looking great at every stage in life. Although everyone loses muscle mass with age, much of this decline is due to disuse and can be repaired and even improved by practicing these targeted exercises. Movement and exercise therapist Cris Caivano draws upon her years of expertise to provide a step-by-step guide to increasing flexibility and resilience regardless of your starting point. Eighty exercises feature 350 photographs illustrating each pose.
Whether you are recovering from an injury or surgery, hoping to alleviate specific problems such as back pain or creaky knees, or simply attempting to maintain your fitness with tailored nutritional and exercise advice, this blend of methods from yoga, Pilates, tai chi, and other disciplines will help you achieve your goals.

"A rapidly growing senior population needs quality information on how to stay healthy and fit longer. Caivano provides just the thing, combining her broad knowledge of dance and movement therapy training in this exceptional strength-training guide for men and women over 50 ... highly recommended."—Library Journal

"A thorough and well-illustrated guide that makes strength training seem (gasp!) fun."—Bookpage
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