E-Books →STRENGTH TRAINING FOR SENIORS OVER 60

Scientists have long known that strength training has a positive impact on your body. Conditions as varied as back pain, heart disease, arthritis, osteoporosis, diabetes, obesity, and insomnia can be partly managed by strength training and other exercise regimens. . Strong muscles never sleep. Studies have found that strength training can increase your metabolic rate (the rate at which your body converts energy stores into working energy) by up to 15%. This lets you burn more calories, even while you're sitting or sleeping. Coupled with the calories you use up during strength training workouts, this increase in metabolism may help you stay at a healthy weight or even lose some weight, provided you're eating right.
If You Think Strength Training is Dangerous, Try Being Weak.
Being weak is dangerous.Strength training can slow the downward momentum of old age by rebuilding enough muscle to change life in a host of small yet satisfying ways.
A complementary approach, another type of training, known as power training, is proving to be just as important as traditional strength training in helping maintain or restore functional abilities-maybe even more important. As the name suggests, power training is aimed
at increasing power, which is the product of both strength and speed, reflecting how quickly you canexert force to produce the desired movement.
Thus, faced with a four-lane intersection, you may have enough strength to walk across the street. But can you cross all four lanes of traffic before the light changes? Power, not just strength, can get you from one side to the other safely. Likewise, by helping you react swiftly if you trip or lose your balance, power can actually prevent falls.
In this book, you will discover
* Meaning of strength training ,and power training which has been proven to be equally important - if not more so - than the conventional strength training
* Health benefits of strength and power training
* Your physical activity evaluation
* How you can prevent injuries and falls
* How you can recover after a fall
* Effectively fall proof your home
...and lots more.