Regular exercise has long been known to improve health, mood, and even life expectancy.  Doing the right exercises can also help you manage your activities of daily living and stave off declines in independence as you age. Experts call this functional fitness.

“The older we get, it really is the functional fitness that matters,” says David Marquez, Ph.D., an associate professor of Kinesiology in the College of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Functional fitness involves the combination of strength, flexibility, balance, endurance and aerobic fitness that allows you to complete the activities of your daily life.  Functional fitness […]

(NewsUSA)   When gym closures due to COVID-19 locked most seniors out of their exercise classes and daily workout routines this spring, they quickly began combing the internet for new strategies to stay fit. Today, many older adults have turned to options like the Silver&Fit program, which offers four free public workout classes daily on Facebook Live & YouTube.

The timing for the launch of the free senior exercise classes could not have been better, according to comments from the participants.  “Thank you for keep-ing us safe, healtlhy and sane during these tough times,” says Ethel G.  “These classes have been life-saving,”  Lee Ann […]

Your brain is no different than the rest of the muscles in your body–you either use it or you lose it. You utilize the gym to stimulate the growth of muscle cells, just as you use a brain fitness program to increase connections in your brain. But you can actually get an additional brain boost by donning your sneakers and hitting the gym. The benefits of physical exercise, especially aerobic exercise, have positive effects on brain function on multiple fronts, ranging from the molecular to behavioral level. According to a study done by the Department of Exercise Science at the University […]