Quick Functional Exercises for Seniors: 50 Exercises to Optimize Your Health

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It's no secret that people are living longer lately, and setting up an appropriate exercise and nutrition plan is vital to maintaining this longevity. Fortunately,Quick Functional Exercises for Seniorscan help older adults keep up with everyday life activities. This book contains more than 50 exercises for seniors, with beautiful full-color step-by-step images to illustrate each. An award-winning expert on functional exercises, Dr. Cody Sipe offers exercises to improve balance and mobility, strength and power, cardiovascular, posture, core stability, and much more.

Regardless of how you want to live out your golden years--with travel, playing with grandkids, working, hiking, or gardening--this guide will enable you to do so.

The perfect gift for the senior in your life looking to Increase function, improve energy, decrease joint pain, improve balance, and enhance cognition!

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Cody Sipe, PhD, is a recognizedand award-winningauthority on functional exercise for older adults with over twenty-fiveyears of experience as a professor, researcher, educator, exercise physiologist, trainer, and fitness studio owner.He is a frequent presenter at regional, national, and international fitness education conferences and workshops, where he shares evidence-based exercise strategies for improving functional ability in older adults.In 2014, he co-founded the Functional Aging Institute and launched the Functional Aging Specialist Certification.He was honored as the International Program Director of the Year in 2005 and as a top threefinalist for the International Fitness Innovator of the Year in 2019 by the IDEA Health and Fitness Association. Dr. Sipe currently serves as associate professor and director of clinical research in the doctoral physical therapy program at Harding University.He completed his masterof science in clinical exercise physiology from Virginia Tech and his PhD in health and kinesiology from Purdue University.