Over 75 best exercises

The Schellea Fowler link I posted earlier, the exercise I like to do is a 15 minute belly workout. I'm 76 and no exercise freak!!

I'm lucky our Pilates teacher is doing Zoom (live) and online classes. Here is the link if anyone is interested, - it doesn't matter where you live at the moment. (I'm also doing Tai Chi with my former teacher - she is in Stratford on Avon). www.bodyjunction.co.uk/

I swim 4 times a week when the leisure centre is open- can't wait for Thursday. As I'm only a mile away, if I had a dog I think I would force myself to go and paddle in the sea with the dog running alongside me a couple of times a week.

‘Bungalow legs’ interested me too. My Mum’s room in our house was on the first floor (old house so quite high), she used to joke that they were her ‘gym’. Carers however and some friends thought we were cruel. After a spell in hospital it was a condition of her discharge (it was ever so difficult to get her out!) that her room was downstairs. We duly hastily decorated our dining room and she came home.
Within quite a short time she was fed up. The room didn’t have the same view over the garden and she didn’t settle.
I think the stairs were one of the reasons that despite heart and circulatory problems she lived much longer than her doctors seemed to expect!

Ballet based movement for over 50s and beginners.
It is lovely, a mother who must be about 68ish and daughter who is the teacher do sessions that last about 30 minutes each, you can easily do two. It is on Youtube and is free. They have lots of sessions and individual little sessions to work on particular moves.
Also Tai Chi, slow graceful yet it exercises every bit of you including internal organs.
Both have been a life-saver for me since lock-down.

I love walking also I do yoga which has been wonderful, we do some chair yoga and some standing . I love the breathing exercises and they help at night to relax and sleep .

Am I the only one who read the title & thought ‘over 75 best exercises?’ I don’t do half a dozen!
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Lifting weights is said to be extremely beneficial for us older people. We can either do that at a gym, or buy some hand weights from Amazon or elsewhere.

I bounce a tennis ball on different surfaces , at different speeds bouncing with one hand catching with the other. Good for hand/eye co-ordination and posture. Try it! I'm 81.

when you get over 60, you start to lose muscle mass, you have to work at strengthening yourself, i do qi gong ,walk, and core
exercises,weights, i have lots of injuries , but i feel pretty fit.My dad lived till he was 93 he did the same and was quite mobile till 92 ish, something i will keep up,best to get advice on types of exercises though,physios probably the best.

I also use Youtube Walk programmes run by Lesley Sansom. Turn down the volume, put on radio or audible and just do it.

Hello all. I am new here. I am 66 still working part time. I love walking it is so uplifting and I go no matter what the weather. There is an app called active 10 and you can choose your target. It is brisk walking which is good for you. I follow Lesley sansone walking at home on you tube which is excellent. When I am off shielding I will be going back to work at the local school which is 20 min walk each way. I suffer with lupus have osteoporosis and suffered 2 back fractures so walking is excellent for me

Can you access YouTube as Joe Wicks does good stuff for the elderly! Another one is Lesley Sansome who does walking and it really gets you going ! What about swimming? Our local pools open next week and that is good exercise as well? Just 15 minutes a day helps your seratonin levels ?

Walking and Pilates. You don't need to walk far - just do it daily! Lots of Pilates classes are available on YouTube or you might be able to find a "live" local class on Zoom. (I have mobility issues, but a weekly Pilates class keeps me from "seizing up".) And if you have been recommended to undertake daily exercises by a health professional whom you trust (e.g; a physiotherapist) then make sure that you do them! Keeping to a daily exercise routine has helped to keep me sane & mobile - and I am by no means a natural athlete.

I’m not a fan of walking although I walk my dogs.
I do Pilates.

I walk around two miles each morning with my little dog.

Although it's not at a fast pace, more slow, slow, quick, quick, sniff, he ensures we both get some much needed exercise.

And it's enjoyable too as I regularly chat with other dog walkers.

motivation, that is the word I have been looking for for ages!
I really lack it lately in doing anything

so, I am 84 and declared very fit by a doctor in the hospital, mind you it was the serious stroke unit where I was taken, but then declared not a stroke a prolongued (sp?) migraine..

figure that one..

anyway for a couple or more years I have done simple tai chi. and I am convinced it helps my knees,, I am not one for exercising.. walking is good.

I'm 80 and live in a bungalow. Until I moved here I had always lived in homes with stairs. I now have 2 dogs that I walk 3 times each day. I'm well and physically fine but I use stairs in my daughters when I'm there so I have the best of both worlds. The dogs are my reason for getting exercise and fresh air. Don't do official exercise just keep active.

Trisher I don't know if tai chi builds a lot of muscle, as you say, but it does strengthen the legs if done properly and it is particularly good for balance and relaxation. It also involves deep breathing so is good for one's lungs and heart as well. I would heartily encourage anyone to give it a go - and keep at it a while in order to see the benefits.

I'm a walker. Nothing over the top but a nice stride out round the local river in the Spring Summer months and around the town when it becomes slippier underfoot there. I guess I manage about an hour a day and feel the better for it. Took me a while to regiment myself - I find it so easy to be lazy! - but the benefits are self evident. Think nowadays I prefer to do it alone as I can go at exactly my own pace. I do encounter people along the way though and sometimes have a brief chat. All very pleasant.......

Leslie Sansone Walk at home on you tube, really good, I read about her on here at the start of lockdown and it’s really coming into it’s own now the weather is not so great

Hi This is what I enjoy doing, I, too, live in a Bungalow (but it has a pretty steep drive which I find a challenge.

Schellea Fowler who is Australian and hosts these exercise has quite a variety to keep you going.
Good `luck

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I go walking every day but the thing I miss most is my 3 swims a week. Our pool has been closed since March. I religiously do my exercises every morning and hoping for hand weights in my 'Christmas' stocking as I have progressed from using tins of beans.

I'm early 70s. I walk a lot, during this lockdown I haven't taken the bus and have tried to walk 5 miles a day whenever possible. My hips became very sore a couple of months ago but I kept on with walking and they're OK now. I stiffen up a lot when I've been sitting for a while but soon loosen up with movement. Tai chi is good but there isn't a group near me. From what I've read walking is brilliant for all sorts of reasons - mental health, keeping the grey cells working etc. DH needs to use the stairlift but I always use the stairs - must go up them a hundred times a day! There are lots of exercises on the internet that you can do from a sitting position.

Since I haven't been able to go to lesuire centre for palates, I have been doing a daily tai chi work out on u tube, it's only 20 mins long but great for arm and leg strength. Also walking more in local park and beach when weather permits.