Low Impact Healthy Exercise Overcoming Obesity Symptoms

Wednesday 14 December 2011 - Filed under News

Friends Life Care is a long term care specialist based in Pennsylvania which his offering a series of healthy exercise workshops for seniors with obesity symptoms. The six week courses are held in Delaware by a trained physical therapist, and they focus on low impact strength training and conditioning.

Participants get educated about healthy exercise and how to benefit from it while avoiding pain and injury. Each 90 minute session covers aging and fitness tips and provides a good workout. For example, in a typical session participants will do exercises like push ups, half squats, standing from a chair, split squats, single leg half squats, hamstring stretches, upper back stretches, neck stretches and abdominal exercises. The leader of the workshop notes that he's seen great improvements in participants in terms of their self-confidence and fitness levels.

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