Fit, Pain Free, and Healthy into Advanced Age

Self-tests for your own fitness level. The best exercises for the 50s, 60s, and over 70

Growing older while remaining healthy, fit, and pain free is something we all hope for. However, the number of people undergoing joint procedures and suffering from pain is steadily rising. But that doesn’t have to be the case for you, and it’s even possible to be fitter at 50, 60 and 70 than people half your age. The problem is that something needs to be done about this. But the good thing is that you can do it.

In this book, the physician and movement therapist Dr. Peter Poeckh shows how, with a minimum of effort, to train the specific areas that tend to cause problems for many people in the second half of life, such as hips, knees, back, and feet. His delightfully motivating style will get even the most sedentary person off the sofa and onto the exercise mat. Various self-tests will help you assess your own fitness level, so that you can get started with the right exercises.

·Longevity as a contemporary issue – the book for keeping fit and healthy as you age

·Simple exercises and training sessions that require little time