ISBN: 9798181884069 - everyday exercise: building functional fitness with adls (health and fitness for seniors, band 1) (1 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - You don't need a gym. You need a different way of seeing your day.Most fitness books ask you to add something to your life: thirty minutes you don't have, equipment you don't want, a plan you'll abandon by February. Every Day Is Exercise starts from the opposite premise - that you are already moving, all day long, and that ordinary movement, done with intention, is real fitness.You get out of bed. You climb the stairs. You carry laundry, push a grocery cart, reach into the cabinet, rise from a chair. These aren't obstacles to exercise. They are the exercise - or they can be, with one small but powerful shift in how you approach them.Written for adults in their sixties, seventies, and beyond, this book follows the natural arc of a single day, from the morning ritual to the evening wind-down. Across its chapters you'll find twenty-five everyday activities transformed into opportunities to build strength, balance, mobility, and confidence - each one explained in plain language, with a clear note on what your body is building and why it matters for the life you want to keep living.Inside, you'll discover how to: - Turn brushing your teeth into balance training and calf strength- Use the chair you sit in every day to build the leg power that keeps you independent- Climb stairs in a way that protects your knees and sharpens your balance- Carry groceries, open heavy doors, and get in and out of the car as deliberate, body-strengthening movements- Practice the single most important functional skill for aging well: getting up from the floorThere's no schedule to follow and no program to fail at. Just a quieter, more sustainable relationship with your own body - one grounded in three simple principles: intention, attention, and consistency.This isn't about lifting more weight. As one woman in her seventies put it: 'I don't work out just to lift more weight. I work out to pick up my grandkids.' That's the goal. Functional fitness - the ability to keep doing the things you love, for as long as you want to do them.The gym is already open. It always has been. You're already in it.…