04-20-16, 02:30 PM | |
Join Date: Dec 2002
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I'm sending an email to jjenkins@aarp.org and hope you all do as well. I will suggest they hire Margaret and say how she has changed and healed my body without injuring me!
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04-20-16, 02:59 PM | |
Join Date: Nov 2010
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Hmm. I like Margaret Richard, and used her workouts successfully for a few years. But I have to say that squats and jumping jacks are not necessarily off limits to older individuals.
I looked at both of the articles Margaret criticizes, and while I agree that the "15 min workout" looks pretty bad for anybody of any age, the "13 Moves" one seems pretty solid. Although, I also think those moves might be better done with a personal trainer if the person in question was previously sedentary. http://blog.aarp.org/2013/06/10/summ...heck-this-out/ http://www.aarp.org/health/healthy-l...cise-plan.html I was wondering where the jumping jacks came in and then found the aarp 15 minute workout video: http://videos.aarp.org/detail/videos...autoStart=true Could this workout have been better designed for an aging population that may be new exercisers? Yes. It wasn't great. But she did provide modifications. To be brutally honest, the reason I moved away from Margaret Richard is that I started to realize she neglects some very basic crucial movement patterns. She almost never does squats, and I don't recall any hip hinges or rows. Her back exercise is more of a shoulder exercise as far as I could tell after doing it for a few years. I think her workouts are great for people who have certain limitations, like if they can't squat or hip hinge because of injury or arthritis. But, if people can squat and hip hinge, they really should, in my opinion. |
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aarp, aging, cane fu, ernestine shepherd, margaret richard, margaret richard rotation, national institute aging, senior exercise |
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