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Beat Osteoporosis with Exercise: A Low-Impact Program for Building Strength, Increasing Bone Density and Improving Posture
Discover how low-impact exercise can turn back the clock and reverse the impacts of bone density decline and osteoporosis.
As you get older, osteoporosis is a big concern. Luckily, there are things you can do to keep it from adversely affecting your life. Featuring more than 100 step-by-step exercises divided into detailed fitness plans, Beat Osteoporosis with Exercise guarantees that, regardless of your current fitness level, you can radically improve all aspects of your health,
• Preventing bone loss
• Increasing mobility
• Avoiding fractures
• Building strength
• Lowering risk of injury
• Improving balance
• Fixing posture
As these exercises become a regular habit, you’ll have an improved and sustainable quality of life while engaging in your favorite physical activities, such as golf, hiking, fishing, tennis or even salsa dancing. This book's safe, age-appropriate, customizable approach to exercise offers stability to your bones while lowering risk of injury.
As you get older, osteoporosis is a big concern. Luckily, there are things you can do to keep it from adversely affecting your life. Featuring more than 100 step-by-step exercises divided into detailed fitness plans, Beat Osteoporosis with Exercise guarantees that, regardless of your current fitness level, you can radically improve all aspects of your health,
• Preventing bone loss
• Increasing mobility
• Avoiding fractures
• Building strength
• Lowering risk of injury
• Improving balance
• Fixing posture
As these exercises become a regular habit, you’ll have an improved and sustainable quality of life while engaging in your favorite physical activities, such as golf, hiking, fishing, tennis or even salsa dancing. This book's safe, age-appropriate, customizable approach to exercise offers stability to your bones while lowering risk of injury.
- GenresNonfictionSelf Help
144 pages, Paperback
First published April 12, 2016
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December 17, 2019
The basics of bone-building for the calcium deficient.
Hey, no judgement. According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation, 1 in 2 women over age 50 will break a bone due to the disease. With those odds, picking up the weights is a smart thing to do. But what if you've already got it? Is it too late to do anything?
Nope, says Knopf. After a brief overview of the disease, Knopf offers a series of exercise programs designed to help you build bone, no matter how weak you are to start with. The osteoporosis workouts come in three levels, from never-worked-out to been-at-it-a-while. There are also two flexibility programs, one designed for folks with the disease and the other as a preventative. The "fast and furious" workout is designed for those with little time to spare, and there are three workouts for healthy individuals meant to stave off the need for the other workouts. Finally, there's a better balance program which will benefit everybody: the biggest problem with osteoporosis, osteopenia, and aging in general is those pesky falls, so the better your balance, the less likely you are to break a leg, hip, or finger.
The exercises are well-illustrated, and are clearly designed -- even in the "healthy" sections -- for folks who have either never worked out or fallen pretty far off the wagon and need to build back up. As such, this makes it a great book for libraries that serve middle-aged to senior populations.
Any bone-building exercise is going to help stave off the big O, but while most of us know what we need to do, most of us probably won't do it unless and until we have to. Human nature being what it is, that makes this book a must for senior centers, assisted living facilities, and larger public libraries. Given how intimidating most workout books can be, the slow build-up of this one will be reassuring to anyone feeling uncertain and/or scared. Recommended.
Hey, no judgement. According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation, 1 in 2 women over age 50 will break a bone due to the disease. With those odds, picking up the weights is a smart thing to do. But what if you've already got it? Is it too late to do anything?
Nope, says Knopf. After a brief overview of the disease, Knopf offers a series of exercise programs designed to help you build bone, no matter how weak you are to start with. The osteoporosis workouts come in three levels, from never-worked-out to been-at-it-a-while. There are also two flexibility programs, one designed for folks with the disease and the other as a preventative. The "fast and furious" workout is designed for those with little time to spare, and there are three workouts for healthy individuals meant to stave off the need for the other workouts. Finally, there's a better balance program which will benefit everybody: the biggest problem with osteoporosis, osteopenia, and aging in general is those pesky falls, so the better your balance, the less likely you are to break a leg, hip, or finger.
The exercises are well-illustrated, and are clearly designed -- even in the "healthy" sections -- for folks who have either never worked out or fallen pretty far off the wagon and need to build back up. As such, this makes it a great book for libraries that serve middle-aged to senior populations.
Any bone-building exercise is going to help stave off the big O, but while most of us know what we need to do, most of us probably won't do it unless and until we have to. Human nature being what it is, that makes this book a must for senior centers, assisted living facilities, and larger public libraries. Given how intimidating most workout books can be, the slow build-up of this one will be reassuring to anyone feeling uncertain and/or scared. Recommended.
September 13, 2020
Oh goodie - many more exercises that are easy to accomplish at home.
Some of the exercises use dumbbells, resistance bands, your own body weight - those are good choices for me.
Some of the exercises use equipment that I don't have- kettle bells, stability ball, foam rollers.
There are plenty of exercise choices in this book.
Some of the exercises use dumbbells, resistance bands, your own body weight - those are good choices for me.
Some of the exercises use equipment that I don't have- kettle bells, stability ball, foam rollers.
There are plenty of exercise choices in this book.
January 16, 2019
This book contains many exercises to help strengthen your muscles.
May 30, 2016
FTC Disclosure: I received this book free from Goodreads hoping I would review it.
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