Empowering Older Adults: Fitness and Health Blog at Core Principles

When people hear the word “strong,” they often picture a heavy barbell, a big bench press, or someone trying to set a personal record.   But what if you don’t care how much you can bench?   Maybe what you really want is to carry your suitcase through the airport...

You probably don’t think of getting out of a chair as exercise. Or carrying groceries from your car. Or stepping onto a curb while walking through downtown Stamford.   But your body doesn’t care what you call these things.   It still has to produce enough strength to stand. Control...

Imagine four people standing next to each other during a strength training session.   They’re all over 50. They’re all working on the same basic movement. But if you watched them, their exercises might look completely different.   One person sits down onto a higher bench. Another lowers toward a...

Sometimes the easiest way to explain what a gym feels like isn’t to tell you what’s there. It’s to tell you what’s not there.   If you haven’t exercised in years—or you’ve never particularly liked gyms—you may already have a picture in your head: loud workouts, people competing, complicated equipment,...