5-Minute Core Exercises for Seniors: Daily Routines to Build Balance and Boost Confidence
Strengthen your core and boost your confidence with 5-minute exercise routines for seniors
Having a strong core can improve mobility, reduce aches and pains, prevent falls, and build everyday confidence. 5-Minute Core Exercises for Seniors makes it easy to incorporate daily exercise for seniors, with a collection of 40 individual movements and 25 quick routines for strengthening the major core muscles.
This guide to exercise for seniors helps you:
- Get to know your core—Learn the muscle groups that make up your core, the benefits of keeping them strong, the importance of breathing and stretching, and the latest science behind exercise for seniors.
- Enjoy a wide variety of exercises—Discover a range of seated, standing, on-the-mat, and weighted exercises that mimic everyday movement and don’t require any special equipment.
- Follow step-by-step instructions—Find how-tos and illustrations for engaging the right muscles and preventing injury, as well as tips to increase or decrease the intensity of each movement to meet your needs.
Improve strength, balance, and confidence with this detailed introduction to core exercise for seniors.
P.S. I now see all the illustrations as warm and inviting, making the exercises exceedingly do-able. The very reason they were chosen!
......I love this book! The exercises are fairly easy to do (some extremely easy) and very effective. The illustrations are very good. I bought the spiral edition which makes it easy to lay the book flat as you follow the easy step-by-step instructions on the page on the right facing of each exercise--the illustrations of the exercise appears on the left page facing. After using this book enough, the illustrations alone (along with the "Remember" bubbles) are all you may need to remind you of how to do that particular exercise.
You can use the suggested 5-minute routines in the latter part of the book or even work thorugh each group of core exercises which doesn't take that long. The four groups of core exercises are: Seated Exercises, Standing Exercises, Mat Exercises, and Excercises with Weights.
The availabe Cards look like they would facilitate easy groupings of the 4 different exercises which make up the many routines in the back of the book. However, I find the spiral-bound book easy enough to flip to the page # of the exercises and mark the spot with a "post-it note" for quick access. The routines give you the page number of the 4 individual excercises that make up the routine. One day I may eventually buy the card deck as well.
Highly Recommended!!!!
It’s never to late to start, so get moving.
This book has exercises that are effective, grouped into short doable routines, and illustrated clearly. The authors' attitude is constructive and encouraging. You still have to supply the initial motivation yourself but once you're doing these exercises it's easy to continue. And because you're at home instead of in a gym or at a class, you don't have to listen to the awful music that accompanies many of these.
The exercises are simple and easy to follow, with modifications for certain conditions. Anyone should be able to devote five minutes to exercise. Maybe this book will be motivation.
Highly recommend this exercise book for Seniors.
It was hidden under my pillow last night so I could be sure to find it for a review.
This is a useful book for seniors or anyone who doesn't want to plunge into a high intensity exercise program. There is nothing difficult about this book except making time to use it yet the exercises are variations of traditional core exercises that will definitely help you, but won't put you in a cast. I already do some of the exercises and have embarrassingly found that I have become lazy or forgetful and am not doing the exercises properly. This book is a great wake-up call.
After a helpful introduction there are 79 pages--39 or 40 core exercises divided into 1. Seated Exercises 2. Standing Exercises, 3. Mat Exercises 4. Exercises with Weights. Most of the exercises have suggestions for making them easier or harder. The last chapter of the book has routines that put the single exercises together--four at a time. The sections are: 1. Routines for Around the House 2. Routines for Active Living. 3. Routines for Aches and Pains and 4. Routines to Do with a Partner.
This truly is a useful book and I am not saying that because I received it almost free. I would gladly pay the price listed. If you do buy it I hope you agree with me.
(And I was kidding about hiding it under my pillow--I hid it in the dryer.)
The exercises in the book don't require special equipment or anything. They are basic movements that most people can do, even if you have mobility issues or are very overweight.
I like it. I'm glad to have it.
A few of these exercises are challenging for me, but I find that I can do them in my hottub or pool.
While this book states that it’s for seniors, I think anyone who’s out of shape and wants to start doing something would benefit from this book.
This book is not at all technical and is easily understood. I think it's one of the better senior exercise books on the market. Its genius is in its simplicity.
This clear and useful handbook has colorful illustrations, the instructions are easy to follow, and a heading on each page indicates either an "activity category" or the muscle groups that a particular exercise is supposed to strengthen. Some of the exercises are done while sitting in a chair or lying down on a mat, while others are performed in a standing position. The authors stress the importance of technique; it is important to position yourself correctly to get the desired results. In addition, at the back of the book, the authors offer tips for incorporating exercise into your daily life; a list of resources for further information; and a handy index. It is wise to consult your doctor before embarking on any new exercise program.
My favorite part of this book are the routines the authors have put together for exercises to do for specific actions: exercises to help you get out of that "man eating" chair, exercises to limber you up for grocery shopping since everything you buy is either under or over your head, exercises to help you move around more comfortably when getting dressed, exercises for housecleaning, exercises to help balance, etc.
the past 18 months. The book is a great resource for details on the whys and hows of the exercise.
These are not just for seniors, but anyone who needs to strive for that flat and strong abdomen and some nice arms to use and show off!!!
As a health care provider, I am very aware of safety when it comes to following a trainers advice. Cindy is thoughtful and descriptive in this book so you can avoid injury and enjoy improving your strength!
The book has easy-to-follow exercises that I found and inspiring to continuing working on my core strength for better balance.
I wish the authors had more books to offer.
I first got "hooked" on Cindy's fitness advice and routines through her videos and live-streamed classes during the pandemic. This book is an excellent resource to complement her online offerings, and will serve as a life-long reference book for me. Cindy provides many options for tailoring the exercises to each person's needs and circumstances. Her knowledge of anatomy, her clear instructions for how to do the exercises, and her guidance about avoiding injury make me feel confident that her advice is trustworthy.
I can't say enough about the content, style, format, and structure of the book itself. Clearly written, with large print, thorough and precise explanations, good signposts (e.g., the colored tabs marking the different sections), and engaging illustrations, it is easy to read and easy to find what I am looking for. I especially like the routines Cindy pulled together at the end of the book, with logical reasons for why they are useful, and the specific benefits each offers for an active older person's lifestyle. I recommend this book without reservation and hope Cindy has plans for writing more books in the future.
I have been reading the other reviews in anticipation and have to say, they are spot on.
To start , this looks in the picture, like it's a little pamphlet. It's not. It is a really nice sized paperback and very well made.
She starts out explaining the core muscles ,stretching, breathing etc. And then the exercises! So so many! And there isn't anything I noticed, that anyone would have much problem with.
I'm sixty five and unexpectedly left my job this year which really threw me for a loop.
I have been very inactive for 11 months now. But even before that I had become very concerned with my balance. I have been doing some balance exercises with Cindy on the aarp website. Those have helped. I am really excited to dig into this book and get back the healthy person I used to be. Thanks so much !
If you have an elderly person in your life,this would be the greatest gift. Maybe even work with them to get them motivated.