Free Online Fitness Session
for older adults
Jordan’s session 16 September 2020
Led by Jordan, this 35-minute session is about helping over 60s improve overall fitness. This is achieved by focusing on muscular strength, core stability and cardiovascular conditioning.
The workout contains four exercises that are repeated over the course of 12 minutes. The first exercise is a strength-based exercise. In order to build muscular strength, you’ll be moving slowly and with control. This has the benefit of increasing strength – making everyday tasks such as carrying the shopping easier – and improved muscle mass. This will help protect the joints to prevent injury. The second movement is a core hold. Here, you’ll be strengthening your core stability. In turn this helps stabilise the trunk and protect the spine from injury.
The final two exercises are purely cardiovascular, where you’ll be moving the entire body with the aim of improving heart health and function. As a result, your heart will become more efficient at pumping blood around the body, which will lower your resting heart rate. This is all key to helping over 60s improve overall fitness.
After all the hard work you will finish with a nice stretch to open up the muscles used in the session.
We’d love to have your comments on the session and don’t forget to subscribe to the FIT FOR GOOD YouTube Channel! Please do consider donating to FIT FOR GOOD so that we can carry on providing FREE sessions.
What is FIT FOR GOOD?
Research supports the fact that regular exercise is vital to good health and helps control the ageing process. FIT FOR GOOD is a programme specifically designed to help men and women over 60, of all abilities, take more control over how they age and enjoy becoming more mobile, more stable and more socially active.
Although we all understand that exercise is essential for living well into old age, it’s hard to find a way to make it part of daily life. FIT FOR GOOD sessions aim to help you enjoy healthier, happier ageing. Our professional trainers guide you. You gain strength, balance, flexibility and stamina during each workout. You work at your own pace and your own ability – although it’s always good to push yourself just slightly to gain maximum benefit.
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MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR SESSION
Fit For Good online sessions are a convenient, enjoyable way of improving your fitness and helping to increase your strength, stability and balance.
To make the most of each session:
- Position your computer, laptop, iPad or phone on a stable surface near where you will be working. If you can get YouTube on your television, that's another option
- Check the floor where you are exercising is not slippery and that there is nothing you could trip over
- Wear loose clothing and comfortable trainers or shoes
- Keep a glass or bottle of water to hand to ensure you stay hydrated
- Have a chair or other stable object to hold onto if necessary
- Place your weights - whether they are actual dumbbells, cans of beans, bottles of water or whatever works for you - where you can easily reach them, but won't trip over them
- Exercise within your comfort zone, pausing the video whenever you need to rest or hydrate
- Play background music if it helps you relax
WE'D LOVE TO SEE YOUR PHOTOS
If you're enjoying Fit For Good online sessions, we’d love to see you via photos or videos – we're regularly asked by news sources for images of people doing the sessions. Perhaps someone in your household has a phone and could take pictures or a video clip? Please send them here.
PLEASE CHECK WITH YOUR DOCTOR BEFORE STARTING ANY EXERCISE PROGRAMME
Did this session at 7.30am , good start to the day ! Thanks Jordan .
So glad I restarted these sessions. Always enjoy them and feel the benefits physically and emotionally. Thankyou Jordan
Thanks Jordan
We have been doing these exercises with Jordan since start of lockdown. Have seen a real benfit in fitness and wellbeing. Do the sessions every day with the Standing yoga recovery every Sunday.
Thanks Jordan
Great work everyone! All of us at FFG are glad that you are all enjoying the classes and seeing the benefits of them. Keep up the hard work.