Learn how to use your foam roller to remediate muscle strain caused by everything from sitting long hours at your desk to overdoing it at the gym. Designed to improve your posture, balance and muscle tone, each exercise is carefully explained and includes step-by-step color photos to guarantee you do it right and gain the maximum benefits, including: increase flexibility, release tension, alleviate chronic pain, rehabilitate injury, improve core strength,...

Exercise will not stop the progression of Parkinson's disease, but it will improve balance and can prevent joint stiffening, In this program you will be shown safe and effective ways to exercise your body through the use of strengthening exercises. This program also comes complete with an exercise band to help improve muscle tone and strength.

"Yoga gives active people vital tools for healthy aging: strength, flexibility, balance, and focus. In this one-of-a-kind book, Sage Roundtree and Alexandra DeSiato clearly describe the what, why, and how of poses and routines that help keep people in any decade of life--but especially older people--fit and injury-free. Addressing the four biggest concerns of the older yoga student--balance, core strength, hip flexibility, and recovery--Lifelong Yoga...

Aging, despite its dismal reputation, is actually one of the great mysteries of the universe. Why don't we just reproduce, then exit fast, like salmon? Could aging just be one big evolutionary accident? Is senescence, the gradual falling apart of our bodies, at least partially avoidable? Can we extend the healthy lifespan and reduce the lingering, debilitating effects of senescence? In this book, investigative health journalist Judy Foreman suggests...

Tai Chi movements, gentle balance, and enhancing motions can assist the Parkinson patient by helping to reduce the gradual loss of balance that accompanies this disease. This video takes you through an exciting workout, using all parts of the body to help your patients learn skills that they can utilize in normal daily activities.

Faced with an incurable and debilitating illness, Parkinson's patients must relearn how to sit-up, speak clearly, maintain balance while walking, and move from a sitting to standing position. This program is unique in that it covers a wide range of techniques, which are specifically geared to and have been approved for, Parkinson's disease. Each exercise is explained in detail and utilizes safe body mechanics. Exercises are modified for those with...

An investigation into the effects of exercise on the brain evaluates how aerobic exercise positively influences the progression of such conditions as Alzheimer's disease, ADD, and depression, in a report that shares theory-supporting case studies.

" ... has three versions of the [pain free] workout. The first version features Liba performing the entire workout with audio cues. The second verison has Liba doing the exercise without her audio; Brain provides technical explanations of each exercise. This version will give a therapist, fitness or medical professional the information needed to lead a Pain Free Workout Program. Verison three of the Advanced Workout features Liba performing the workout...

In which a recently retired man decides to train to complete a triathlon, despite his lifelong sedentary nature. His wife, by contrast, is a fitness freak, now suffering from bad knees and facing debilitating surgery. Ignoring all his other obligations, the husband engages a saucy, sexy personal trainer who treats the wife with contempt. Will he survive the ordeal? Will their marriage survive? Written with psychological insight, a rich cast of...