Fitness After 40: Your Strong Body at 40, 50, 60, and Beyond

Fitness After 40 addresses the physical changes that come with aging—decreased energy, reduced mobility, and weakening bones—and presents a medical approach to maintaining fitness across the decades. Dr. Vonda Wright, an academic orthopedic surgeon and authority on active aging and mobility, has developed a program tailored to the fitness and performance needs of mature athletes. The book explains how flexibility, aerobic exercise, and strength training can be used to maximize fitness results while reducing injury risk. Topics covered include understanding how your body changes with age, gaining flexibility regardless of current fitness level, benefiting from aerobic exercise, building strength through resistance training, and improving balance. The book includes "20 Minutes to Burn" workouts, a six-week total-body plan, and information on nutrition, injury prevention, joint preservation, and the mind/body connection for maturing adults.