Energetic Seniors Newsletter
March 2015
Greetings!

Energetic Seniors offers in-home personal training sessions conducted in the comfort, convenience, and privacy of your home, apartment, or building's gym.  With our trainers, you can improve in muscular strength, balance and endurance, cardiovascular fitness, and functional independence in activities of daily living.

My goal as founder of Energetic Seniors continues to be to spread the word to more boomers/seniors who are not active or active enough and to those who work with boomers/seniors.  Almost anyone at any age can do some type of physical activity. So sign up today, and open the door to a healthier and stronger tomorrow!

Sincerely,
Bonita
In This Issue
How Exercise Keeps Us Young

An article recently published in the New York Times follows a study of cyclists aged 55-79 with a high degree of physical fitness.  They were put through various physical and cognitive tests to look at the effects of exercise on age-related physical decline.  The test results revealed that most of the participants were functioning on a level similar to young people.

The article explains how much of the physical decline associated with aging is in fact in the hands of the individual.  Exercise appears to minimize age-related declines extremely well.  Dr. Stephen Harridge, the leader of the study says, "being physically active makes your body function on the inside more like a young person's."

For the full article, click here.
Exercise During Cancer Treatment
By Carla DeSimone
Certified Personal Trainer and Cancer Exercise Specialist 

"It was a pleasure working with Carla. Not only was she sensitive to what I had been through with having had breast cancer, a mastectomy, and the development of lymphedema in my left arm, but she developed an exercise program that was not overwhelming. Incorporating a physio ball made it all seem like fun. I do the exercises while watching TV and barely realize that I'm exercising."
~Robin, one of Carla's clients

 

 

I was recently present in my sister-in-law's hospital room when her doctor strolled in and gave her a very blunt diagnosis of gall bladder cancer. Several members of our family were present while she waited for test results. 

 

Needless to say, we were all shocked and it took several days for this to sink in for us and mostly her.

 

Once a diagnosis of Cancer is given, everyone's first reaction is to treat the cancer as fast as you can either with surgery, chemotherapy, radiation or a combination of all of those. What no one thinks about is exercise during cancer.

 

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Katrina's Dock Dance

Dock Dance
Dock Dance




A joyful tribute to her grandparents.  From our one and only Katrina.
Time to "Spring" Into Spring!

Do you want to become more active as we approach the warm months? Contact Energetic Seniors to get started yourself or to find out more information for your patient or client.

For more information, contact
bonita@energeticseniors.com, or call
212-879-1566.  Also visit our website: www.energeticseniors.com.