Description: Author Lesley Ackland is 50-something--and looks 20 years younger. In Pilates Over 50, Ackland shares her fitness secrets in her Pilates body-maintenance program. Her Pilates exercises and nutrition plan for those over 50 will help anyone look and feel years younger. Pilates Over 50 combines low-impact exercises with resistance training and weight-bearing exercise--crucial for building and maintaining bone density. As a result, joints become more flexible and general mobility is increased. Ackland shares stories of her mature clients, who have used her Pilates routines to alleviate age-related health problems such as arthritis and posture problems.
Pilates Over 50 shows readers how to:
- maintain flexible joints
- strengthen the back
- work on specific body areas so that clothes hang more beautifully
- tone and strengthen arms, shoulders, legs, abdominal areas, and buttocks
- move with more suppleness and grace
- improve bone density for long-term health benefits

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