
Sod Sitting, Get Moving!
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Specifically designed for older adults the exercises, stretches and strengthening movements will help keep you fit, strong and supple for the years ahead. You will feel better, look better and younger and reduce your risk of disability and dementia.
As we get older too many of us spend our time sitting and not exercising. This is a call to arms - a bonfire of the slippers! Walk more, get moving, get exercising, get fitter, and feel better! This handy book shows you how.
With easy exercise ideas created by Green Goddess and health and fitness expert Diana Moran, with text from Sir Muir Gray, author of the bestselling Sod Seventy!, this is the perfect present for yourself, or for anybody turning sixty, seventy or eighty!
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Sir Muir Gray is author of Sod Seventy! Sod Sixty! (with Dr Claire Parker) and Sod it! Eat Well! with Anita Bean. Muir was the first Chief Knowledge Officer for the NHS and set up NHS Choices. He was the founding Director of the NHS National Screening Programmes, establishing programmes for cancer and aortic aneurysm screening specifically for older people. He is a Consultant in Public Health at Oxford University Hospitals and a professor at the University.
Content
Sixty plus? Time to get moving by Muir Gray
Introduction by Diana Moran
1 Getting older: your choices
2 'Sod sitting, get moving!' exercise plan
Part 1: Get moving, wake up and stretch
Part 2: Upper body, shoulders and back
Part 3: Arms, chest and wrists
Part 4: Core strength, tums and bums
Part 5: Thighs, legs and feet
Part 6: Bones and osteoporosis
Part 7: Strength, balance and the prevention of falls
Part 8: Resistance band exercises
Part 9: Chair exercises
Part 10: Stretching
3 What now?
Your essential 5-a-day exercise plan
List of exercises
About the authors
Acknowledgements
Index
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