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Senior Exercise DVD Programs Designed to Enhance Your Life
The Stronger Seniors Program focuses on improving the Body, Mind, and Spirit of senior citizens, those with limited mobility or recovering from injury or illness.
All Chair Exercise DVD programs work together to improve your ability to be stable and balanced, to stay mobile, to go up and down stairs, to squat and pick something up, and to play with your grandchildren!
Together, the Stronger Seniors chair exercise DVDs have a balanced program of exercises for the whole body. Strength, flexibility, endurance and balance … all while sitting in your chair!
Stronger Seniors is committed to improving the overall well-being of seniors everywhere, keeping the senior community informed and inspired to live fuller, more active lives.
Stronger Seniors focuses on three aspects of the our being: the body, the mind and the spirit. While they all relate to each other, each is fed in different ways.
Cardio exercise is necessary for your heart, like jogging, walking, biking, swimming, etc., but it should not be the only type of exercise people do because of the repeated stress to the joints. The body, especially when it gets older, isn’t designed for repetitive stress on joints, so the person needs to shift HOW they approach their workouts as they get older.
For seniors, the shift should be towards exercises that maintain a healthy range of motion, with major emphasis on the stabilizers of the joints, strength and flexibility and movements in all planes of motion. Stronger Seniors workouts are designed with these principles.
The Stronger Seniors workouts are slower paced, allowing time to make the mind/body connection, and gentle on the joints for older adults, arthritis conditions, beginners or anybody recovering from surgery or various illnesses.
We are seeing a huge trend of injured athletes and folks in their 40’s and 50’s coming to Pilates & Yoga as they re-learn exercise either to avoid surgery or after surgery. Our newest DVDs, Pilates & Resistance Band and Yoga, are chair based, like our other video programs, which makes it easier for seniors who may not be able to get up and down from the floor easily.
The Stronger Seniors workouts are designed as a balanced program. Used together, the DVDs provide a variety of routines with specific benefits. Exercisers should alternate the use of the DVDs for the best results.
Benefits include: Strength, balance, coordination, stamina, posture, agility, release of tension, range of motion, respiratory health, core strength, fall prevention, energy, well being, natural anti-depressant and better rest.
Stronger Seniors- Developed by Anne Burnell, Continuing Education Provider for the American Council on Exercise in Senior Exercise, Elderly Exercise, Exercise for Older Adults.
Sitting Exercise DVDs are often recommended for people with hip replacement or knee replacement.
Anne Pringle Burnell is a Certified instructor and faculty provider with the American Council on Exercise, the Aerobics & Fitness Association of America, Stott™ Pilates, the Aquatic Exercise Association, and the Aquatic Therapy and Rehabilitation Institute.
She is one of only 150 Instructor Trainers worldwide for Stott Pilates™ and is fully Certified on all apparatuses. Other certifications include: Nia Technique, Kickboxing, Cycling, Aquatics, Seniors, Pre & Postnatal exercise.
Anne has been a special guest instructor at resorts throughout the U.S. and Carribean, and a presenter at events including the American Cancer Society Walk & Roll, and the National Council on Aging/American Society of Aging conference.
She teaches at the the Rehabilitation Isnitute of Chicago, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Peninsula Spa, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Elements in Motion, a Stott Pilates™ Certification Center.
Anne Burnell has been personally teaching Exercise for Seniors and the Elderly for over 15 years. She is a Continuing Education Provider for The American Council on Exercise (ACE), and a Faculty Presenter for the National Council on Aging.