Full Life Fitness: A Complete Exercise Program for Mature Adults - Softcover

Clark, Janie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0873223918 ISBN 13: 9780873223911

Publisher: Human Kinetics, 1992

Synopsis

Full Life Fitness will help you enjoy the benefits of physical exercise--without the fatigue and overexertion that come with some exercise programs! By following the plan in this book, you'll be able to

* improve the health of your heart,

* discover bottomless stores of energy,

* lose weight,

* tone up, and

* help protect yourself from osteoporosis and other health problems.

Full Life Fitness is specifically designed for mature adults--those who are no longer youngsters but want to improve their fitness level. The program's low-stress and no-stress exercises are designed to help you avoid pulled muscles, undue soreness, overtaxed joints, and excess fatigue.

Full Life Fitness covers four major categories of exercise: aerobics, muscle conditioning, stretching, and water workouts. You'll learn the benefits of these four exercise types, as well as how to match your physical fitness goals with the right exercises for achieving them. The book also includes complete instructions and informative illustrations for a wide variety of exercises in each of the four categories. You'll find specific recommendations on which exercises you should be doing, how long, and how often.

You'll also learn how to use the exercises to put together your own complete exercise program. Or you can choose from the ready-to-use 3-day, 4-day, 5-day, and 30-day plans.

Full Life Fitness also emphasizes fun. The book is full of tips for increasing your satisfaction from exercise, and it features an entire chapter on how to maintain your interest and motivation.

Use the program in Full Life Fitness to take charge of your personal fitness and reap the many benefits of an active life!

About this title

About the Author

Janie Clark is an exercise physiologist with an extensive background in working with mature audiences and the host of the PBS television series The Wellness Workout.

Janie has a master's degree in exercise physiology and wellness management from the University of Central Florida. She has served as a specialty consultant on senior fitness for the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America, helping to develop its senior fitness training program for instructors who work with older populations. She is the director of ABLE (Arthritis: Better Living through Exercise), an exercise program designed specifically for those with debilitating rheumatoid and osteoarthritis.

Janie is the author of Seniorcise: A Simple Guide to Fitness for the Elderly and Disabled, and The Wellness Way, which is the companion book for her television series. Janie is also a health and fitness instructor for Daytona Beach Community College.

Janie and her husband Grant live in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, along with their three cats and two dogs.

Reviews

Exercise therapist and consultant Clark's intended audience is ``mature adults,'' as well as anyone younger who has avoided a fitness regimen. And the author, host of the PBS series The Wellness Workout , certainly means well. She presents detailed rationales and instructions for a broad range of low- and no-stress exercises--aerobics, muscle conditioning, stretches and water-based workouts. She emphasizes the need for warm-ups and cool-downs (to avoid sudden shocks to an out-of-shape heart). She conscientiously notes how asthma, arthritis, minor incontinence and medications may have an impact on exercise, but does not accept any of these as excuses for remaining a couch potato. However, Full Life Fitness is so earnest in its intent and execution that it becomes overwhelming; will a sedentary or older reader, heretofore unmotivated to exercise, really want to plough through all this? Clark's prose doesn't surmount the problem--her writing is peppered with exclamation points and glistening cliches (``zest for life''). She may have proved her ability to energize TV watchers, but in print she frequently reminds one of an overly perky activities leader in a nursing home.

Copyright 1992 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Human Kinetics
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0873223918
• ISBN 13: 9780873223911
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192