TRAINING FOR THE ACTIVE FIFTY-PLUS GROUP

Building and maintaining bone strength

Safe impact exercise
Walking/treadmill training
Dance for density

Resistance training without straining
Weight training with a safe start and gradual increase
Home program of open and closed kinetic chain strengthening

Balance training for fall prevention

“Steady as she goes”
to stay the course without unsteadiness
Learn exercises to improve coordination and stability

Dealing with dizziness
Vestibular retraining

Posture training

Learn stretches to keep you upright
Prevent rounded shoulders, forward head lean, forward trunk lean, and other postural deviations

Learn strengthening exercises to support your spine
Upper back and lower back strengthening
Abdominal strengthening

Gait training

Safe walking
Confident walking
Return to sport and recreation

Functional mobility

Transfer training

Lying down to sitting
Sitting to standing
Standing to kneeling
Kneeling to lying down

Traveling/car transfers