Anatomy of Exercise for 50+: A Trainer's Guide to Staying Fit Over Fifty Paperback – October 11, 2012

This book help's you understand and visualize the core muscles movements into the posture.This book is great value for the beginner student of Pilates

Helps to understand how things work when we move. I like that it's so detailed & for the over 50, more doable.

These Exercise Anatomy books, published by Firefly, are wonderful books: great descriptions, photos, and the anatomy info is a great complement for those of us who like to know about that sort of thing. However, I'd give the info in this book only about two or three stars because it's so basic and the exercises are so easy. I'm 60 years old and apparently in fabulous condition if this book is anything to go by--ha ha! I had hoped the book would help me develop a challenging-but-doable age-and-body-type-appropriate resistance training program.If you're just getting started with fitness, this might be a good place to start. I saw that one reviewer said the exercises were too advanced for them; everybody has a different starting level. If you're already well-versed in basic fitness, try the Encyclopedia of Exercise Anatomy in this series. It's full of great info!

I found a similar book at Sam's Club and bought for my Personal Trainer daughter for Christmas and she loved it so much I bought this for myself. It has great pictures in it of how to do the exercise explaining what muscles are being innervated with each move. Really great book!

Very thorough in explaining the exercises. Book is full of pictures for each exercise. You need to invest a little money for a few pieces of equipment, but it is not bad. Most of all the exercises are geared for us over 50. Im glad i bought this book!

The illustrations are both easy to follow and instructional. I went to physical therapy to recover from an injury and improve my flexibility and strength. My therapist taught me many of the exercises and I took careful notes. However, insurance only pays for a limited number of sessions. This easy to read guide has been a great help in continuing my recovery.

I use my copy of this book regularly to train, and recommend it. The recipient of the copy bought htis time, is "getting to it'.I reccommend caution to those getting back into a trainging program for the Standing Quadricepts Stretch. Until the musclesare fully firm, it would be safer to do on the floor, as is shown in a subsequent bookin this series.

This is a really good book to have around. I've exercised for years, but I'm getting ready to teach a class for seniors, and this will be a big help. It has a good baseline to start with. The pictures are very good.