Sod Sitting, Get Moving!

Sod Sitting, Get Moving! is the must-have guide to keeping fit and healthy in your sixties, seventies and beyond. Specifically designed for older adults the exercises, stretches and strengthening movements will help keep you fit, strong and supple for the years ahead. You will feel better, look better and younger and reduce your risk of disability and dementia. As we get older too many of us spend our time sitting and not exercising. This is a call to arms - a bonfire of the slippers! Walk more, get moving, get exercising, get fitter, and feel better! This handy book shows you how. With easy exercise ideas created by Green Goddess and health and fitness expert Diana Moran, with text from Sir Muir Gray, author of the bestselling Sod Seventy!, this is the perfect present for yourself, or for anybody turning sixty, seventy or eighty!

Sir Muir Gray is one of Britain's most experienced medical figures. He was the founding Director of the UK National Screening Programmes, and his main focus has been on the prevention of diseases, particularly in older people. Formerly a professor in the Department of Primary Care at Oxford University, he is now Director of the Optimal Ageing Programme leading a national plan for Living Longer Better.

Foreword by Age UK Sixty plus? Time to get moving by Muir Gray Introduction by Diana Moran 1 Getting older: your choices 2 'Sod sitting, get moving!' exercise plan Part 1: Get moving, wake up and stretch Part 2: Upper body, shoulders and back Part 3: Arms, chest and wrists Part 4: Core strength, tums and bums Part 5: Thighs, legs and feet Part 6: Bones and osteoporosis Part 7: Strength, balance and the prevention of falls Part 8: Resistance band exercises Part 9: Chair exercises Part 10: Stretching 3 What now? Your essential 5-a-day exercise plan List of exercises About the authors Acknowledgements Index