Full Life Fitness

Full Life Fitness will help older adults enjoy the benefits of physical exercise while avoiding the fatigue and overexertion associated with many exercise plans. By following exercise physiologist Janie Clark's Full Life program, readers will be able to: improve the health of their hearts, discover bottomless stores of energy, lose weight, tone up, and help protect themselves from osteoporosis and other health problems. Full Life Fitness focuses on the special needs of older adults by featuring only low-stress and no-stress exercises. All of the exercises are designed to help avoid pulled muscles, undue soreness, overtaxed joints, and excess fatigue. The author also tells how to adjust an exercise program for special conditions such as arthritis, osteoporosis, and others. While the Full Life program is for mature adults, it allows for individual differences. For example, a 45-year-old who has been sedentary for 20 years has different exercise needs than a healthy 80-year-old who has taken care to remain physically fit and active. The Full Life program is designed to help mature adults at all fitness levels find the fitness program that's right for them! Full Life Fitness covers four major categories of exercise: Aerobics Muscle conditioning Stretching Water workouts Readers will learn the benefits of these four exercise types as well as how to match physical fitness goals with the right exercises for achieving them. The book also features complete instructions and informative illustrations for a wide variety of exercises in each of the four categories. And it includes specific recommendations on which exercises readers should be doing, how long, and how often. Readers will also learn how to use the exercises to put together their own complete exercise program. Or they can choose from the ready-to-use 3-day, 4-day, 5-day, and 30-day plans. Full Life Fitness emphasizes that fun is also an important part of any physical fitness program. Janie Clark's enthusiasm is contagious--her upbeat, energetic style will help anyone maintain a commitment! The book is filled with tips to help readers increase the satisfaction they get from exercise. Plus, an entire chapter is devoted to the important topics of maintaining interest and motivation. The program in Full Life Fitness will help readers take charge of their personal fitness and reap the many benefits of an active life! About the Author Janie Clark is an exercise physiologist with an extensive background in working with mature audiences and the host of the PBS television series The Wellness Workout. Janie has a master's degree in exercise physiology and wellness management from the University of Central Florida. She has served as a specialty consultant on senior fitness for the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America, helping to develop its senior fitness training program for instructors who work with older populations. She is the director of ABLE (Arthrit

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