"Being active and in shape helps you sleep, keeps you strong and healthy, and improves balance, your social life-and even your sex life! We all know exercise is good for us, but time, money, age, and inertia often keep us stuck on the couch. But you don't need to join a gym-or even leave your house-to get fit and healthy! In Fitness Hacks for over 50, you'll discover quick and attainable tips and strategies to maintain (or increase) your fitness and...

"Read Fast After 50 to learn more about the effects of aging on athletic performance and how you can be a competitive endurance athlete as you get older." —Triathlete magazine
For runners, cyclists, triathletes, swimmers, and cross-country skiers, getting older doesn't have to mean getting slower. Drawing from the most current research on aging and sports performance, Joe Friel—America's leading endurance sports coach—shows...

This book "directly addresses the most pervasive problem faced by aging humans: the loss of physical strength and all its associated problems— the loss of muscle mass, bone mineral loss and osteoporosis, hip fractures (a terminal event for many older people), loss of balance and coordination, diabetes, heart disease related to a sedentary lifestyle, and the loss of independence. [It] maps an escape from the usual fate of older adults: a logical,...

From firming and shaping the entire body to building cardio strength to advanced relaxation techniques, this series shows how to use yoga to help tone and firm your whole body and achieve total fitness. Useful for both beginners and advanced users.