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Personal Trainers For The Elderly: Keep Mom and Dad Active & Healthy For Life

If you have an elderly parent or loved-one who needs to improve their strength, balance, or mobility — and you’ve been asking yourself, “How do I find a personal trainer for the elderly near me?” — BeneFit Personal Training can help!
Our personal trainers for the elderly understand the unique challenges facing mature clients because we work with them every day providing companionship and helping them reclaim the strength and independence they may have lost over the years.
Fragility, depression, decreased mobility and fall-related injuries are risks for people as they age and a cause of concern for everyone charged with their care. Supervised exercise for the elderly is the best defense against these risks.  Regardless of age, exercise should remain a regular part of our lives. Movement is medicine for the body, mind and spirit! But as we get older we may need additional motivation, support and guidance to help us exercise safely, consistently and effectively without introducing  injury.  
Enlisting the guidance and encouragement of a personal trainer for the elderly can ensure that your loved ones: 
1) Stay active and healthy over the course of their lives. 
2) Improve their strength, balance and stability. 
3) Preserve their confidence and self-esteem.
4) Maintain their independence.
5) Reduce their risk of chronic disease.
6) Improve their mood and emotional well-being.
Let our team of experienced and caring fitness professionals help the elders in your life age gracefully, feel better, do more, and get the most out of life. Our certified personal trainers make exercise housecalls, so that the senior in your life can exercise at their convenience and in the comfort and safety of home.  
If Mom or Dad has exercise equipment at home, we’ll incorporate it into their at home fitness program. If not, their senior fitness trainer will bring all of the exercise equipment needed to help the elders in your life make safe and steady progress toward their fitness goals.
To learn more about our in home exercise programs for the elderly, call us at (888) 323-8677 or Fill Out This Form to Find A Personal Trainer For The Elderly Near You.
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS BY SENIOR CITIZEN IN HOME PERSONAL TRAINING CLIENTS

“Due to my arthritis and sciatica, I was having difficulty doing everyday activities. After working with my trainer for several months, I am moving better, have little to no pain in my joints and my sciatica nerve pain has decreased.  I have become so much stronger and I have managed to lose 15lbs! My trainer is so knowledgeable and has so much patience with me. I look forward to meeting with Terrence weekly.”

– Beverly S.,  active grandmother of 2

“I can’t imagine a trainer with better interpersonal skills than Don’s. He’s exactly what I’ve been looking for, focusing on the needs that my family physician wants addressed and doing it with a fine touch of mentoring, not simply ordering me about. (As an 85-year-old who’s mentoring ESL students, I realize the importance of”encouraging” and not merely “ordering” clients.) So I’m eager to maintain my professional relationship with Don.” 

— James W., Senior Citizen In home  Personal Training client in Chevy Chase, MD

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How Our Personal Fitness Trainers For The Elderly Meet The Needs Of An Aging Population

An active lifestyle is key to remaining healthy and fit as you age. It is never too late to start exercising, but the kinds of demands you can place on your body may become more restrictive as you get older. But the good news is that with the guidance of a personal trainer for the elderly from BeneFit Personal Training you or the senior citizens in your life can start an exercise program that is effective, yet tailored to your individual needs, preferences and limitations.
What An Elder Specific Program Should Include
A personal training program for the elderly should focus on four key components: 
  • Balance, 
  • Strength/resistance training, 
  • Aerobic conditioning and 
  • Stretching.
Improving Balance Reduces The Risk Of Falls For The Elderly
Improving balance is a critical area that seniors need to focus on because once you reach your 60s and 70s your fall risks increase substantially. In fact, falls are a leading cause of death among elders above the age of 65. Your chance of suffering a hip fracture increases significantly when you suffer a fall and are above the age of 65. Fractures take a longer time to heal, and for some seniors, may never heal completely. 
Focusing on your balance, therefore, becomes key. A BeneFit personal trainer for the elderly can guide you through simple yet highly effective exercises such as walking heel-to-toe, or single leg stances that can help improve your balance and reduce your fall risks.
The Elderly Can Increase Stamina With Aerobic Exercise
A fitness training program for the elderly should also include aerobic exercises that focus on increasing your heart rate. Aerobic exercise provides a protective effect against a host of chronic illnesses, including heart disease, colon cancer, diabetes, obesity, and hypertension. If you already have a chronic condition, physical activity can minimize symptoms. 
Aerobic exercise with our personal trainers for the elderly can even help reduce cognitive decline. One study found that participants over the age of 60 showed fewer Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers when they performed 30 minutes of exercise every day.
Resistance Training Builds Strength & Bone Density
A BeneFit personal trainer will ensure that your program includes weight lifting or resistance training. This helps you increase bone density and muscle mass. Strength training has been shown to counteract bone loss and actually restore bone density. Having stronger bones leads to fewer fractures and can also aid in balance.
Improving Flexibility Helps Reduce The Risk Of Injury
Many people overlook and underestimate the value of stretching. Stretching keeps the muscles flexible, strong, and healthy, and we need that flexibility to maintain a range of motion in the joints. Without it, the muscles shorten and become tight. Then, when you call on the muscles for activity, they are weak and unable to extend all the way. That puts you at risk for joint pain, strains, and muscle damage. 
What A Personal Training Program For The Elderly Should Avoid
Broadly speaking, rushing into any extremely strenuous or high impact physical activity can cause elderly clients more harm than good. Lifting really heavy weights, leaping and bounding, long-distance running and all-out sprinting are examples of inappropriate or high-impact physical activity that might actually cause an injury… especially if you have been sedentary for a while. 
Easing into a program slowly by increasing the intensity, load and duration over time is the best approach. This will help mitigate injury and allows the bodies of elderly clients to adjust to the new demands being placed on them.
A well constructed personal training program for the elderly can ensure that you or the special senior citizen in your life stays active, mobile and independent for as long as possible.
If you would like to work with personal trainer for the elderly near you, click on this link to request more information.
 
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