Stan Kravchenko, founder of OneFit app, agrees, telling Men’s Journal, “This type of steady movement is becoming popular because it’s easy to sustain and is gentle on the body.”
It improves posture, balance, and flexibility, all of which tend to become compromised as we age.
Functional fitness is the term coined for these movements that mimic what we do in daily life.
We are talking about repetition using light to medium weights or even body weight to prevent the loss of muscle mass and bone density that occurs as women approach the pre and peri-menopause years.
Find the exercise that brings you happiness and the one that you look forward to doing, even if it means digging those neon leg warmers out of storage.