No equipment exercise program for the 50+ - 8/10
Week Eight of a Ten Week series: Heart health: Enhance your walking routine
Vintage Fitness is an in home personal training company which inspires movement in the 50+ in Toronto.
Clients often ask us for easy exercises which are appropriate for someone over 50 that require minimal equipment which they can do at home or in their condo gym.
This is the eighth week of a ten week blog series filled with exercise pictures and tips. The focus this week is on cardiovascular exercises that are great for the heart, balance and can be done at home on days that it is too cold or rainy to get out for your walk. . These exercises are all low impact buy some of them involve getting down on the floor. If this is too intense for you drop me a note erin@vintagefitness.ca and I will send through some modified exercises.
Toy Solider
Benefits of the exercise:
Develops stamina, stretches hamstrings and is good for brain health
Tips:
- Keep a tall spine
- Lift the leg to hip height if you can
- Do this exercise for 2 minutes
Low impact burpees
Benefits of the exercise:
Builds stamina, agility and chest strength
Tips
- Take your time doing this exercise
- Take a big enough step forward that you don’t feel knee strain
- Do 6 reps
Video:
Lunges
Benefits of the exercise:
Builds leg strength, burns calories and develops balance
Tips:
- Do close to a wall in case you loose your balance
- Keep the chest and head lifted during this exercise
- Aim for a 90 degree angle in both of the knees
- Do 8 reps
Video:
Low impact jacks
Benefits of this exercise:
Develops heart health, co-ordination and shoulder mobility
Tips:
- Step as oppose to jumping wide
- Keep the core contracted to protect the lower back
- Do the exercise 15 times
Good Luck!
Erin
Vintage Fitness
Vintage Fitness is an in home personal training company in Toronto, Canada. We specialize in energizing the lives of people over 50 with exercise.
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