Free Online Fitness Session
for older adults
Jordan’s session 25 November 2020
This over 60’s heart health session is led by Jordan and designed to help cardiovascular fitness.
During the 30-minute session, you’ll be performing a workout format known as AMRAP. This stands for ‘As Many Rounds As Possible’. Over the course of two and a half minutes, you will work through three exercises for a specific amount of reps. Your aim is to do these exercises as fast as possible whilst still retaining good movement mechanics.
Once one round is complete, you will repeat the exercises over and over again until the time runs out. In other words, to do as many rounds as possible. When the time runs out, you will have a good amount of rest before going through this process twice more. Your aim is to beat your score from the last round.
The benefits of the AMRAP workout format is that it encourages people to move quickly and at a high intensity whilst working at their own pace. This is a fantastic way to improve stamina and cardiovascular conditioning, thus having a positive effect on heart health. Such conditioning causes resting heart rate to lower and therefore the heart doesn’t have to work as hard when performing day-to-day tasks.
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Research supports the fact that regular exercise is vital to good health and helps control the ageing process. FIT FOR GOOD is a programme specifically designed to help men and women over 60, of all abilities, take more control over how they age and enjoy becoming more mobile, more stable and more socially active.
Although we all understand that exercise is essential for living well into old age, it’s hard to find a way to make it part of daily life. FIT FOR GOOD sessions aim to help you enjoy healthier, happier ageing. Our professional trainers guide you. You gain strength, balance, flexibility and stamina during each workout. You work at your own pace and your own ability – although it’s always good to push yourself just slightly to gain maximum benefit.
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Fit For Good online sessions are a convenient, enjoyable way of improving your fitness and helping to increase your strength, stability and balance.
To make the most of each session:
- Position your computer, laptop, iPad or phone on a stable surface near where you will be working. If you can get YouTube on your television, that's another option
- Check the floor where you are exercising is not slippery and that there is nothing you could trip over
- Wear loose clothing and comfortable trainers or shoes
- Keep a glass or bottle of water to hand to ensure you stay hydrated
- Have a chair or other stable object to hold onto if necessary
- Place your weights - whether they are actual dumbbells, cans of beans, bottles of water or whatever works for you - where you can easily reach them, but won't trip over them
- Exercise within your comfort zone, pausing the video whenever you need to rest or hydrate
- Play background music if it helps you relax
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Thanks Jordan although it was quite hard work!
Further comment my thighs were so sore next day I could hardly walk!