Fitness Challenge

This fitness challenge was developed in collaboration with Tiffany Davies, M.D. for her patients. Special thanks to Dee, our 80 year old assistant who wants everyone to know she had one knee replaced 6-months prior to making these videos.

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fitness tests

New to Exercise or Returning to it?

This baseline fitness test is for you.

Lead an Active Lifestyle and/or Experienced Exerciser?

This baseline fitness test is for you.

warm up

Join us for this 5 minute warm up.

strength workout

Supine Ab Press

Strengthen your deep inner abdominal muscles.

Opposite Arm and Leg Raise

Strengthen your core, back, and glute muscles.

Side Plank

Strengthen your oblique muscles.

Hip Bridge

Strengthen your glutes, hamstrings, and back muscles.

Slide Lying Hip Circles

Strengthen your glute medius (aka side glutes:) )

Sit to Stand or Squats

Strengthen your quads, hamstrings, and glutes.

Wall or Floor Pushups

Strengthen you chest, shoulders, and triceps.

Single Arm Row +/- Hip Extensions

Strengthen your mid-back muscles. If you choose the combination balance challenge you will strengthen your glutes and hamstrings as well as improve your balance,

Single Arm Lateral Raise +/- Hip Abduction

Strengthen your shoulders. If you choose the combination balance challenge, you will be working your glutes as well as improving your balance.

Single Arm Biceps +/- Hip Flexion

Strengthen your biceps (your pull muscle in your arm). If you choose the combination balance challenge, you will be strengthening your quads (which support your knees) as well as improving your balance.

stretches

Wall Angels

Dynamically stretch your chest and shoulder muscles and improve your posture.

Hip Flexor/Quad Stretch

Stretch your hip flexors and quads.

Wall Chest Stretch

Stretch out your chest and shoulders to help improve your posture.

Thank you!

Thank you message from Dr. Davies to her patients, "If there is one thing I can do as your doctor to improve your health, it is getting you to exercise regularly. Let's do it!".

As with all exercise program, when using exercise videos, you need to use common sense. To reduce and avoid injury, you will want to check with your doctor before beginning any fitness program. By performing any fitness exercises, you are performing them at your own risk. Tough Agers LLC & deborahdoesfitness.com will not be responsible or liable for any injury or harm you sustain as a result of our fitness program, DVD, online fitness videos, or information shared on our website. This includes emails, videos, and text.