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Learn how to create your own classes within the ToughAgers® framework

Learn how to create your own classes within the ToughAgers® framework
Cardiorespiratory, Balance, Resistance, Core, & Flexibility Training
Deborah Rothschild, M.S.
This study included the following training protocol:
Todde, F., Melis, F., Mura, R., Pau, M., Fois, F., Magnani, S., Ibba, G., Crisafulli, A., & Tocco, F. (2016). A 12-Week Vigorous Exercise Protocol in a Healthy Group of Persons over 65: Study of Physical Function by means of the Senior Fitness Test. BioMed research international, 2016, 7639842. https://doi.org/10.1155/2016/7639842
Brovold T., Skelton D., and Bergland A. (2013). Older Adults Recently Discharged from the Hospital: Effect of Aerobic Interval Exercise on Health-Related Quality of Life, Physical Fitness, and Physical Activity. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 61(9), 1580-1585. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jgs.12400
“Resistance training offers numerous benefits beyond improvements in muscle strength alone for older individuals. Several reports have demonstrated improvements in balance, functional mobility, stability limits, and fall prevention. Resistance training can attenuate age-related changes in muscle function and improve activities of daily living such as walking endurance, gait speed, and stair climbing. Our research demonstrates that a significant increase in functional performance can be achieved even at an elderly age (>90 years old)”.
Papa, E. V., Dong, X., & Hassan, M. (2017). Resistance training for activity limitations in older adults with skeletal muscle function deficits: a systematic review. Clinical interventions in aging, 12, 955–961. https://doi.org/10.2147/CIA.S104674
Reva, NASM CPT
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