Start Here | Fitness In Your 50's and Beyond

Start Here | Fitness In Your 50's and Beyond

Not sure where to start? Don't worry — we've created a collection to help you build a new fitness routine at any stage of life. Build confidence, strength, stability, and mobility with these all-levels, modifiable moves. You'll find a variety of disciplines, from strength to kickboxing to mobility to dance, with modifications provided to allow you to practice safely. Take your time as you start out; focus on the feeling and the form of every movement, appreciating the progress you make along the way.

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Start Here | Fitness In Your 50's and Beyond
  • Knee Checkup with Adrian | Everyday Mobility Class (15 Mins)

    Your knees carry you through your life. They help to support your weight with every step you take. In this class, Adrian takes you through a range of lower body exercises to increase strength, stability, and range of motion. These exercises can help prevent injuries and osteoarthritis in and arou...

  • Balance Checkup with Adrian | Everyday Mobility Class (13 Mins)

    Balance is a key component of how you move. Training your balance helps improve your posture and the quality of your movements while preventing falls and injuries. As we grow older, we can lose balance function; Adrian has developed this class to help counteract this.

    You will begin by rolling o...

  • Earth with Kate | Grounding Yoga Class (24 Mins)

    Earth sequence begins kneeling and continues with floor poses that are both gentle and invigorating. Kate guides you through this grounding class that will open your body but leave you feeling refreshed. This class is perfect to prepare for a long day or restore afterward. This is episode 107 of ...

  • Strength Patterns Practice with Adrian | Functional Strength Class (13 Mins)

    Get ready to move with confidence and stability through four dynamic intervals, resting intentionally between each. Challenge yourself to focus on quality and control with each Agility and foundational strength exercise, allowing your body to move how it was meant to.

    This practice combines a ...

  • Learn Kickboxing Stance with Farinaz (4 Mins)

    Start by standing with your feet hip width apart before stepping your dominant leg back, turned out naturally. Keep your knees soft, bent slightly, with the majority of your weight on the rear leg. Stay on the ball of your rear foot. Next, relax your shoulders down and make a fist with both hands...

  • Restore with Kate | Restorative Weighted Yoga Class (15 Mins)

    In this Restore practice with Kate, explore restorative poses with the addition of two weights to add depth and balance, ground your body throughout the sequence, and rejuvenate your muscles and joints. Gain confidence in the flow of this class and then add weight from there, practicing Kate’s un...

  • Mornings with Adrian | Stretching, Proprioception & Coordination Class (6 Mins)

    Get your body warm and ready for the day with this 6 minute morning movement practice with Adrian. You’ll move through a sequence of stretches and exercises to wake up large muscle groups and joints and connect your mind to your body. Adrian will guide you through a lower leg stretch and an energ...

  • Mellow Moves with Lydia | Self-Massage Yoga Class (30 Mins)

    Join Lydia in a gentle yoga class designed to help when you’re feeling sore or tired. This 30-minute practice focuses on your low back, hips, neck, pecs and lats to release tension in your upper body.

    Practice anytime during the day, or add it to your pre-bedtime routine to finish your day rest...

  • Weighted Cool Down with Kate | Restorative Yoga Class (5 Mins)

    Incorporating a Cool Down practice transitions your body into a state of rest following your movement practice. In this sequence, Kate guides you through restorative poses such as a Bridge, Reclined Butterfly, Reclined Hamstring, Supine Twist, and Savasana. Position your weights intentionally in ...

  • Mornings with Farinaz | Short & Dynamic Full Body Wake Up Class (2 Mins)

    Wake up your inner warrior with Farinaz Lari in this short practice incorporating dynamic stretches and shadow boxing, leaving you ready to take on your day. Even two minutes of movement can leave you feeling powerful and grounded.

  • Playbook with Karen | Episode 1 (8 Mins)

    Playbook profiles people of different backgrounds on the strategies they use to move through life. This season includes working mom, Karen Richardson; adaptive wheelchair athlete, Leo Sammarelli; and producer and business owner, Gabriela Schonbach. In a series of intimate discussions, they reveal...

  • Get Balanced Practice with Keighty Gallagher

    This practice with Keighty will focus on bringing balance to your muscles and joints. Focus up and engage in a series of back exercises and lateral movements. This Strength Foundations practice is all about core and back stability, narrowing in on four sets of four movements: Fast Hands, Loaded R...

  • Breath Foundations with Cam | Calming Breath Class (4 Mins)

    Breathing is one of the most important things we do. Breathing correctly is an effective technique to reduce stress and increase our ability to move through life with a calm confidence. You can also practice these exercises in your car, on the bus, or while you are at work.

  • Mornings with Kate | Energizing Weighted Yoga Class (5 Mins)

    Join Kate Potter in a refreshing 5-minute morning practice to wake up your body and your mind. You’ll practice various floor movements such as Child’s Pose, Plank, Sphinx, Supine Twist, and Downward Dog while using a single weight to engage your muscles and ground each pose of this intentional f...

  • Power Up | Strength & Conditioning Dance Class | Level 1 (30 Mins)

    Power Up with Formation Studio is focused on learning foundational movements for form, increasing the intensity, and adding the tempo of the music. This will increase your endurance and coordination for dance and life. This class focuses on four fundamental movement patterns: Hinge, Lunge, Upper ...

  • Functional Core with Amanda | Foundational Core Class (14 Mins)

    Amanda designed this class to help you strengthen your core in your everyday movements. She will guide you through four foundational core moves, each with four levels for you to choose from. Beginning with diaphragmatic breathing to prepare your core, you will move through variations of Dead Bug,...

  • Sit Foundations Class with Kate (4 Mins)

    Knowing how to sit properly is vital to our overall health and wellbeing. This is a very important pose that you can (and should) practice anywhere. It’s a hip opener that’s great for the spine and has a long list of benefits. Good posture will help with lower back pain, prevent headaches, increa...

  • How to Work with Weights with Keighty | Choose & Handle Weights (5 Mins)

    Keighty guides you through using the weights in her program with confidence, helping you figure you what weight is appropriate for you today, decide what your strength goals are, what household items you can substitute, and how to handle your weight safely.

  • Stretch with Amanda | Full Body Movement Class (13 Mins)

    Amanda designed this class for those days when you just need a short stretch break to reset and feel good in your body. She guides you through some of her favourite stretches to release tension. You will move through spinal rolls, modified sun salutation, ankle rolls, hamstring stretches, glute b...

  • Core Connection with Amanda | Foundational Core Strength Class (3 Mins)

    Amanda guides you through two simple yet powerful breathing exercises to establish strength & stability in your core muscles. Reconnect to your diaphragm, transverse abdominis, and pelvic floor with 360 Breathing and the Two Step Exhale. These foundational exercises were key to Amanda re-establis...

  • Zoom Stretches with Kate Potter | Chair Yoga Class (6 Mins)

    This 5-minute practice with Kate Potter is designed to relieve and restore your body with movement between long periods of time seated and working at a computer. From your chair, using a weight or your fists, start by moving slowly through modified seated poses such as Cat-Cow, Warrior, Forward ...

  • Your Turn | Take Your First Athletic Strength Class with Tarry (33 Mins)

    Your Turn is a new series featuring community members taking a turn at a new form of movement. These classes are a follow-along format and are designed to be beginner friendly. If you've ever wanted to try HIIT, kickboxing, or dance but are unsure where to start or if this type of movement is for...

  • Learn Plank with Kate | How to Access Your Core (3 Mins)

    Plank pose is all about strength, stability, endurance and activating your core. This weight-bearing pose is critical to practice for our entire life because it keeps us strong. Plank pose will also help to improve your posture, balance, and flexibility.

  • Middays with Leo | Adaptive Upper Body HIIT Class (18 Mins)

    Join Leo for a challenging adaptive Tabata class. Tabata is a type of HIIT training that breaks a workout down into clearly defined intervals. Leo will take you through 35 seconds of upper body work and 10 seconds of rest, featuring various moves from multiple sports including swimming, boxing, h...