The Strength Training Bible for Seniors
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The Strength Training Bible for Seniors

The Ultimate Fitness Guide for the Rest of Your Life

  1. 392 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 4 Dec |Learn more

The Strength Training Bible for Seniors

The Ultimate Fitness Guide for the Rest of Your Life

About this book

Stay strong. Stay active. Stay healthy. "It’s never too late to lift weights: Older bodies can still build muscle" (Washington Post). The Strength-Training Bible for Seniors is the only book you need to be fit and feel young in your fifties and beyond.

Science shows us that an active lifestyle helps us flourish and is one of the keys to a long life. Strength training–whether in your core, arms, legs, or back–is an essential component of a fitness routine regardless of your age. The Strength-Training Bible for Seniors covers all your workout needs: stretching, core strength, weight and resistance training, and kettlebell workouts to help you build muscle, tone your body, be flexible, and be your best.

The Strength-Training Bible for Seniors presents functional exercises carefully adapted and tested to provide comprehensive and customizable total-body workouts for people 50 years and older. Step-by-step photos and explanatory captions make it easy for anyone from the fitness novice to the lifetime athlete to train smart and stay fit for life. These progressive programs provide everything you need to:
  • Get stronger
  • Build muscle
  • Avoid injury
  • Improve posture
  • Develop low-back health
  • Foster core stability and flexibility
  • Increase hand-eye coordination
  • Boost mind-body awareness
  • Enhance sports performance

The exercises and workout programs in The Strength-Training Bible for Seniors will help you build and maintain strong muscles in the abs, obliques, back, arms, legs, shoulders, and butt. What are you waiting for?

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Introduction
  4. Getting Started
  5. Part 1: Stretching