Muir Gray, Diana Moran

Sod Sitting, Get Moving! (eBook, PDF)

Getting Active in Your 60s, 70s and Beyond
Illustrator: Mostyn, David

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Sod Sitting, Get Moving! is the must-have guide to keeping fit and healthy in your sixties, seventies and beyond.

Specifically designed for older adults the exercises, stretches and strengthening movements will help keep you fit, strong and supple for the years ahead. You will feel better, look better and younger and reduce your risk of disability and dementia.

As we get older too many of us spend our time sitting and not exercising. This is a call to arms - a bonfire of the slippers! Walk more, get moving, get exercising, get fitter, and feel better! This handy book shows you how.

With easy exercise ideas created by Green Goddess and health and fitness expert Diana Moran, with text from Sir Muir Gray, author of the bestselling Sod Seventy!, this is the perfect present for yourself, or for anybody turning sixty, seventy or eighty!

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472943781
• Artikelnr.: 47987389

Autorenporträt

Professor Sir Muir Gray is one of Britain's most senior medical figures. He pioneered breast and cervical cancer screening, and was knighted in 2005 for his work in the development of foetal, maternal and child screening programmes. He is Director of The Optimal Ageing Programme and Chief Knowledge Officer at EXI, a personalised physical activity prescription.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Age UK Sixty plus? Time to get moving by Muir Gray
Introduction by Diana Moran 1 Getting older: your choices 2 'Sod sitting,
get moving!' exercise plan Part 1: Get moving, wake up and stretch Part 2:
Upper body, shoulders and back Part 3: Arms, chest and wrists Part 4: Core
strength, tums and bums Part 5: Thighs, legs and feet Part 6: Bones and
osteoporosis Part 7: Strength, balance and the prevention of falls Part 8:
Resistance band exercises Part 9: Chair exercises Part 10: Stretching 3
What now? Your essential 5-a-day exercise plan List of exercises About the
authors Acknowledgements Index