FOREVER ACTIVE OLDER ADULT HEALTH & FITNESS PLAYBOOK

Forever Active Older Adult Health and Fitness Playbook is the BEST and most comprehensive heath and fitness reference book ever written. Though its title suggests it is written for the older adult (50+) it is an essential read for anyone who wants to improve their health, fitness and quality of life. Its author, Michael Bedard is an experienced personal trainer who has run over 25 marathons in Greece, London England and in every province of Canada. He is a Master Ironman athlete. He shares his experience and expertise to provide readers with the essential knowledge and tools they need to make transformational changes in your life. Forever Active Older Adult Playbook is extremely well illustrated and presented in an easy-to-read format. The information and the multiple tool kits presented for cardio fitness, muscle strengthening, flexibility, agility, balance, nutrition and mental health are priceless. The book focuses on how to overcome barriers to getting started on living a healthier lifestyle and, most importantly, how to maintain these healthy changes in your life once you have started. Anyone can make changes for short term benefits but knowing how to implement them for a life time is elusive. Forever Active Older Adult Health and Fitness Playbook shows you how to do it. Goal setting is an essential element to achieving change in your life and Forever Active Playbook emphasises this over and over again and gives you the tools to set realistic short-term and long-term goals so you achieve the changes you want to make. Over 500 individual exercises are illustrated and described and over 40 exercise routines are presented for improving your core and whole-body strength, flexibility, agility and balance. An initial physical fitness evaluation test is available so you know your starting point and this will prevent you from doing too much too soon which is a key reason people get injured or stop their program after a few short weeks. Most importantly, physical fitness, nutrition and holistic evaluation worksheets are available so you can monitor your progress from month to month. This is an important and necessary step to ensure you are progressing properly which is essential in maintaining motivation. It is said that a person is only old when they use age as an excuse. The Forever Active Older Adult Health and Fitness Playbook is an excellent resource for anyone to use to help them never have to use age as an excuse not to participate in life to the fullest. It is important to remember that "You don't stop playing because you grow old, you grow old because you stop playing!" "Success is in the Doing" so get started today on a healthier, more fit and happier you.