She's Got Legs Lower Body Workout

SHE'S GOT LEGS - Standing Workout - Lower Body
Most lower body workouts include loaded front lunges, squats, deep side lunges, and bridges. Some of these are not suitable for older adults with knee and hip injuries, and bridges require getting up and down off the floor. There are many Lower body exercises that can be done standing while holding onto a chair or wall. Here's a quick 10 minute workout to strengthen your lower body.

Research: Lower Body strength is associated with good physical function in older adults.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21081704/

Stronger Seniors® is a chair exercise workout program designed to increase strength, balance, flexibility and cardiovascular endurance in older adults. Workouts can be done seated, or standing, or both. The World Health Organization and the National Institute on Aging recommend 150 minutes per week of moderate exercise for older adults.
Benefits of the Stronger Seniors® Workout Program:

*Improve strength, balance and flexibility
*Decrease risk of falls
*Improve cognitive function
*Improve mental health and mood
*Develop endurance and cardiovascular health
*Enhance function in daily activities
*Prevent bone loss, osteoporosis
*Prevent / manage chronic diseases
*Pain relief

Check with your healthcare provider before beginning any exercise program. Designed by certified fitness instructor Anne Pringle Burnell, Stronger Seniors® is suitable for people with diabetes, hypertension, obesity, heart disease, MS, COPD, Parkinson's, Arthritis, cancer, joint replacements pre/post surgery.

Stronger Seniors workouts focus on 8 areas of health:
STRENGTH
STRETCH
BALANCE
CARDIO
COGNITIVE
CORE
BREATHING