At age 60 and above, your body reacts differently to exercise and diet. At the gym, you should use light weight and more repetitions to heat up your muscles-not tear them down-and burn calories. Commit daily to 20 minutes of aerobic exercise and 20 minutes of weight resistance exercises contained in this book for six weeks, and it’ll become a life-long lifestyle. Cowboy Joe’s program gets you to your desired body image by focusing on the full range of motion of all your body parts with 16 simple exercises.
- Title : Take My Weight … Please!: Head-To-Toe Fitness for Seniors–the Cowboy Joe Way
- Authors : Joe Rendon, Edward Mickolus
- Publisher : Wandering Woods Publishers
- Publication Date : November 19, 2019
- Language : English
- Paperback : 72 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1949173038
- ISBN-13 : 978-1949173031
- Item Weight : 5.3 ounces
- Dimensions : 8.25 x 0.17 x 6 inches
Table of Contents
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
- The Four Phase Program
- Sixteen Exercises
- A Few Suggestions About Diet
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgements
Executive Summary
This section is for those of you who don’t want to do a lot of reading about why the program works, just that it does. Here’s the absolute minimum of what you need to know before you can go to the Sixteen Exercises.
At age 60 and above, your body reacts differently to exercise and diet.
You should use light weight and more repetitions to heat up your muscles—not tear them down—and burn calories.
Commit daily to 20 minutes of aerobic exercise and 20 minutes of weight resistance for 6 weeks, and it’ll become a life-long lifestyle.
This program gets you to your desired body image by focusing on the full range of motion of all your body parts with 16 simple exercises (which you can pare down to 12, or 8, or 4).
The mantra: go long, go lean, and improve shape.
Diets alone will make you lose weight. Weight resistance shapes you.
Whatever diet you choose should eliminate sugars, wheat-containing products, but have plenty of proteins. Give up colas and diet colas.
That’s it. I’d be delighted if you read the introduction—we worked hard to put good stuff for you in it—but you can skip to the exercises now if you want to.
Introduction
Let’s talk about you. You’re a Boomer, over 60 and want to get in shape. You’ve tried dieting, but had no luck keeping the weight off. You’ve tried exercising. Again, no luck, got frustrated, and stopped with the daily exercises. You’ve tried dieting and exercises, but again, after a while, the weight sneaks back on.
Why is this happening?
One simple reason. You and I are over 60. Our bodies work differently. When you sustain an injury, or suffer an illness, do you bounce back as quickly as you used to when you were 20? No. 40? No. We’re not just “wrinkled 40-year-olds”. We’re different and need something different.
Same thing with fitness. The dieting and exercise programs that work for younger people no longer work for us because our bodies—metabolism and muscles—have changed. What we need is something designed for our more mature bodies.
Good news. I’ve designed a program that works. I dropped from 320 pounds to 220 pounds in a year. Exercising and eating more practical foods was the key for me and will be the key for you, too.
You’re going to look like a wimp at the gym because you’re doing something entirely differently than everyone else. Unlike other programs, you’ll be using lighter weights, but more repetitions. This will look odd to everyone nearby. What matters is movement—heating up the muscles. Other programs try to tear down, then build up, muscles. With this program, the constant movement will make you burn calories like an old Ben Franklin stove. When you walk out of the gym, you’ll look great, with the body image you want.
Some men won’t stay with it, because of that Arnold-esque mindset. With this program, you’re not competing with anyone else on the amount of weight you’re lifting. You’re just following your own goals, at your own pace. So try it for 6 weeks. At the end of it, you’ll need a whole new wardrobe! Stay with it longer, and you’ll develop a whole new lifestyle, one in which you’ve committed to living better, healthier, and longer.
I’ve worked with circa 60 individual clients in the Del Webb 55+ active community in which I live. This program is helping to make Del Webb beautiful, one person at a time.
