To help you get started, our resident personal trainer, Sam Hopes, who trains clients of all ages, shared her five go-to ...

Assisted living communities should increase their efforts to encourage more residents to engage in physical activity, and activity directors need to be trained better in moderate- and high-intensity ...

“Is this exercise functional? I read that I should be doing functional training exercises”. This client was right, she should be (and was) doing functional exercises. But what makes an exercise ...

Chas Reilly Times correspondent Mar 2, 2025 Mar 2, 2025 0 Completing such everyday tasks as getting up from a chair or bending down to pick up objects that might have been done with ease in your 20s ...

As you’ve gotten older, you might have noticed your body creaking more than it used to. The scary truth is that we start to lose bone gradually as early as 30. Often this happens without you even ...

Functional fitness is a workout philosophy that uses exercises that mimic real-life activities to make daily movement safer and more efficient. Think about all of the non-exercise movements you ...

When it comes to increasing your levels of physical activity, anything is better than nothing. "I always tell my clients that the best exercise is the one you're willing to do," says Austin "Ozzie" ...