In the rehabilitation and occupational therapy field, therapists devise exercises and techniques for helping people suffering from severe injuries to "relearn" how to move, so they can go back to daily living without any limitation or fear. Some of the exercises used are everyday tasks that the patient needs to practice and be shown how to do while the brain reconnects the pathways for creating movement. There is obviously a loss of muscular strength, but the loss of neurological connection with movement is more significant and exercises that target this have a greater effect on strength than the strength training itself. For older adults or seniors, this is also very true and real. Their poor balance, strength, mobility and co-ordination can be significantly enhanced from learning complex movements and tasks that mimic everyday activities, as opposed to simple strength training exercises with a single focus of building muscle. Walking and machine based exercise will have no effect on learning to move with skill and co ordination. In this article I am going to show you how to use exercises we use in our Stronger For Longer Older Adults program, to enhance movement skills with Older adults and you will see videos of real clients performing these drills and exercises. The Fitness industry must recognize that the population is getting older and sicker, and it is up to us to show these people how to prevent many of the unnecessary health problems via a well designed Health & Fitness program.

This is one of the most misunderstood questions within the Health & Fitness community and where many people still think you have to train everyday to get good results. The key lies in one of the simplest yet most neglected training principles, recovery. This is something that took me a long time to understand, I had the same belief as everyone. More training = better results. The no pain, no gain attitude. It was about the age of 35 that I started to realize there was a smarter way to train, that actually took a lot less time and produced much better results. It was also about the age of 35-37 that I set all of my personal best times for running, cycling, triathlon and lifting in the gym. But it was not from training more but from training less! My training volume was significantly less than it had ever been. For the first time I began to actually that resting was as valuable as training. By the end of this article I will prove to you that less equals more!

Health Tips On Exercise, Nutrition & Lifestyle Habits To Guarantee Success

Welcome to our page of Newsletters you can download to your computer and print off to read at home in comfort. These are packed full of some of our best tips and a snapshot of what we at No Regrets have been working on each month. There is so much confusion regarding how to get Healthy, in particular with Nutrition. The articles we share in these newsletters cut through all of this confusion and provide people with the "truth" about what really works and how you can start implementing changes in your lifestyle right now. Our client of the month feature is by far our most popular article and shares the best success story from the previous month. Many of these real life stories are the reason for inspiration with many of our clients and give you a real glimpse that nothing is impossible, you just need a good plan designed by someone who knows how to get there. I hope you enjoy reading these as much as we enjoy writing them and sharing some amazing stories and our secrets on how we have been able to stay fit and healthy for all of these years.