Dynamic Aging
As seen on the Today Show, Dynamic Aging isn’t that same old “senior fitness,” “senior stretching,” “senior strength” book you’ve seen again and again. This book is about using simple exercises to feel better and get back to living vitally no matter your age.
“Don’t blame your age if you’re feeling creaky. It could just be the way you’re using (or not using) your body.” —Washington Post on Dynamic Aging as a “Book for the Ages”
Movement is a powerful tool and changing how you move can change how you feel, no matter your age. Dynamic Aging is an exercise guide geared to an over 50 audience that includes:
- 30+ illustrated exercises
- moves for pain-free feet and strong hips
- better balance and getting over the fear of falling
- how to improve sitting, standing, and walking posture
- go from stiff shoulders to arms that can reach, carry, and lift
- how to stay fit to drive
- tips for moving more in daily life
Alongside Bowman’s exercise and alignment instructions are stories and advice of four women over seventy-five who began this program over a decade ago. Along the way they found recommended surgeries unnecessary, regained strength and mobility, and ended up moving more than they did when they were 10 years younger.
From hiking in the mountains to climbing ladders and walking on cobblestones with ease, each of these women embodies the book’s message: No matter where you’re starting, if you change how you move, you can change how you feel.
Praise
Dynamic Aging: Simple Exercises for Whole-Body Mobility will prove to be an enduringly necessary, valued, and popular addition to personal, family, and community library Health & Medicine collections in general, and physical mobility supplemental studies lists in particular.
It’s possible to be more fit and agile now than you were twenty years ago. The proof—and the plan for how to do it—is right in these pages.
We know that exercise is key for goldeners, but in Dynamic Aging, Bowman and her impressive coauthors go one step further. They show how movement, not just exercise, is key to living dynamically, well into your seventh, eighth, and ninth decades. Essential reading for both goldeners and the fitness professionals that work with them.
Aging is not about age—poor movement habits age and derail us. Our vitality is never wholly lost and can be regained by coaching joints and muscles toward their ability to function optimally.
Although Dynamic Aging is aimed at readers ages 50 and above, it can be helpful to anyone who wishes to improve their balance and mobility. There is no magic wand here—effort is required—but Bowman and the Goldeners demonstrate how to incorporate these exercises into your everyday life. What a gift to be able to restore movement you thought you had lost for good!
Dynamic Aging makes it clear it’s never too late to start moving BETTER. This easy-to-understand book is sure to benefit many who may have thought their days of moving with ease have passed.
Dynamic Aging shifts the conversation from exercising to moving. Her goldener coauthors are living proof this works, no matter when one starts. Aging is not a choice. How we age is!
About the Author
Bestselling author, speaker, and a leader in the Movement movement, biomechanist Katy Bowman, M.S., is changing the way we move and think about our need for movement. Bowman teaches movement globally and speaks about sedentarism and movement ecology to academic and scientific audiences. Her work has been featured in diverse media including The Today Show, CBC Radio One, The Seattle Times, and Good Housekeeping.
Connect more with Katy Bowman on her website.
In her seventy-ninth year, Joan Virginia Allen is experiencing dynamic aging in her teaching, hiking, tree climbing and hanging, and sharing her vitality and joie de vivre with her husband, children, grandchildren, siblings, and friends. Joan is a retired attorney, actress, author, and speaker who lives in Ojai, California.
Shelah Wilgus is a graphic designer, fiber artist, and aspiring photographer who’s trying to save the planet by promoting a plant-based lifestyle and teaching vegan cooking classes. She loves working with older people (she is one), digitally restoring old photographs, exploring the world on her two feet, and doing the Calf Stretch. She lives in Ventura, California.
Joyce Faber is a passionate third-generation teacher, mother, stepmother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. Her lifelong love of teaching has evolved from avidly seeking/teaching wisdom and health to living with mobility into her eighties practicing whole-body movement. She enjoys passing on what she’s learned from Katy Bowman, teaching senior classes, and hiking in the outdoors with friends and family. She lives in Ventura, California.
Lora Woods is beginning her seventy-sixth year on earth, now older than any known progenitor. She works hard to do right by the earth, while the stars in her personal universe are Randy, Amanda and Thomas Sherren. Lora lives in Ojai, California, where everything is accessible by foot and hiking is awesome.
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