Free Online Fitness Session
for older adults
Jordan’s session 27 January 2021
This 30-minute session includes the perfect workout for seniors who are looking to improve their general fitness. Led by Jordan, you’ll use three movements that work three fitness modalities – strength training, core stability and cardiovascular conditioning.
These modalities have a number of benefits. Regular strength training makes you stronger through increased muscle mass. This helps maintain bone mineral density, resulting in healthier bones. Core stability training builds strong core muscles. It spares the spine from excessive loads, preventing injury. Cardiovascular conditioning is equally important. It can lower blood pressure, improve cholesterol levels and help you lose weight. It can also give you that feeling of being ‘fit’.
In combination, these modalities will improve general fitness: strong and capable muscles, a functioning and stable core, and a good level of cardiovascular fitness are all essential. By doing this training regularly, you’ll feel fitter, stronger and more capable than ever before.
We’d love to have your comments on this perfect workout for seniors. Don’t forget to subscribe to the FIT FOR GOOD YouTube Channel! Please do consider donating to FIT FOR GOOD so that we can carry on providing FREE sessions.
What is FIT FOR GOOD?
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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MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR SESSION
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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If you're enjoying Fit For Good online sessions, we’d love to see you via photos or videos – we're regularly asked by news sources for images of people doing the sessions. Perhaps someone in your household has a phone and could take pictures or a video clip? Please send them here.
PLEASE CHECK WITH YOUR DOCTOR BEFORE STARTING ANY EXERCISE PROGRAMME
Different session thank you Jordan although I think my thighs will ache tomorrow!!!
My gluts ached next day but I’ve still done the session again today thanks Jordan
I have done this again getting better.
Hard work , or is it me out of practice ? Star jumps were never a problem for me but now my heart sinks when you say those words ! I have probably made a mistake telling you as when the class starts next week you will probably make sure we do the dreaded star jumps !!