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JUST MOVE!: A NEW APPROACH to FITNESS after 50 by James P. Owen

Published in September of 2017 by National Geographic The author, James P. Owen, was 70 and realized that he was horribly out of shape. By out of shape I do not mean that he was fat. I mean he was walking around like a stiff and brittle old man - more content to sit and watch the world go by rather than get up and be a part of it. Rather than go to the gym and try to become buff, he decided that he needed to combat aging by becoming "functionally fit". Instead of bulging biceps he would pursue these 5 goals in an effort to be more mobile and become less likely to injure himself in his everyday life: -Core stability and strength -Flexibility -Balance -Muscular strength -Cardiovascular endurance And he succeeded. He claims that at age 75 he is the most fit shape of his life. There is nothing really shocking in this book, but he gives tons of practical advice to make things happen more safely and more quickly, especially if you have a few extra bucks to pay for a