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Senior Wellness

Over the last 10 years, PTI trainers have developed special programs to support senior wellness. The senior wellness program is built around five critical areas of physical capability that are critical to maintaining health and independence: strength, balance, coordination, flexibility, and endurance.

In the ten years since he took on his first senior client, a 72-year old man who still remains an active client, Yury has combined his acute observational skills with his unparalleled knowledge of physical training and anatomy to provide carefully crafted exercise programs for older adults. By making precise observations of his client’s current performance, he adapts his training regimen on a minute-by-minute basis to maximize the benefits of each training session. By carefully programming each step in the training regimen, PTI trainers ensure steady improvement in strength, balance, coordination, flexibility, and endurance. They also keep a record of your performance in each session to ensure continuity of your training program from session to session.

The Five Focus Areas of the PTI Senior Wellness Program and Their Benefits

Strength Training

• Builds muscle and protects bone
• Makes you look and feel better
• Improves performance of everyday activities
• Improves quickness, mobility and balance, reducing risk of falling
• Offers weight control, since each pound of muscle burns more calories than a pound of fat for the same amount of exercise.

Balance Training

• Strengthens small muscles around joints that are necessary to maintain balance
• Important for preventing falls

Coordination Exercises

• Quickens your response to unexpected events
• Protects you from injury

Flexibility Exercises

• Counteracts muscle shortening and weakening that comes with age
• Significantly improves posture and balance

Endurance Training

• Improves energy and mental alertness
• Prevents or delays some diseases like heart disease, diabetes, and cancer
• Perks up your mood and helps reduce depression

 

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Here is what the National Institutes of Health has to say about Exercise for Seniors:

Benefits of Exercise for Seniors

Scientific studies show that staying physically active and exercising regularly can help prevent or delay many diseases and disabilities. Scientists find that even moderate exercise and physical activity can improve the health of people who are frail or who have diseases that accompany aging.

Don’t Be Afraid to Exercise

Studies show that exercise is safe for people of all age groups and that older adults hurt their health far more by not exercising than by exercising. An inactive lifestyle can cause older people to lose ground in four areas that are important for staying healthy and independent: strength, balance, flexibility, and endurance. But research suggests that exercise and physical activity can help older people maintain or partly restore these four areas.

It’s Never Too Late to Start Exercising

Even if you have had an inactive lifestyle, there is good news. It's never too late to improve your health.

Staying active can help you:

• Keep and improve your strength so you can stay independent.
• Have more energy to do the things you want to do.
• Improve your balance.
• Prevent or delay some diseases like heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.
• Perk up your mood and help reduce depression.

From the National Institutes for Health (www.nih.gov)