FITNESS FOREVER - Exercise Video for Seniors

The Program for Healthy Aging!

Fitness Forever is a nationally recognized, medically based exercise program designed specifically for seniors and individuals focused on active aging. If followed regularly, participants will see improved heart rate and blood pressure, increased mobility, reduced joint pain, and overall improvement in functional fitness and health.

This video is specifically designed to meet the varied needs of seniors, to help improve overall health and raise the user's level of fitness, thereby reducing the risk of injury and illness.

Although the video was developed for seniors, Fitness Forever is appropriate for anyone, any age, with a physical condition such as arthritis, diabetes, heart disease, or high blood pressure.

Fitness Forever is a winner of the prestigious Molly Mettler Award for Excellence in Health Promotion and it is the only workout video approved by the American College of Sports Medicine

An Award-Winning Exercise Program for Seniors

Salt Lake City, UT (Aug 1, 2005) — PCE Health and Fitness, a Salt Lake City, Utah-based fitness equipment manufacturer, continues its efforts in promoting active-aging and total health and wellness by offering a unique exercise video for seniors.

Fitness Forever is a nationally recognized, award winning medically based program featuring exercises that will enhance and maintain the good health and fitness of seniors. If followed regularly, participants will see improved heart rate and blood pressure, increased mobility, reduced joint pain, and overall improvement in functional fitness and health. The video is specifically designed to meet the varied needs of seniors, to help improve overall health and raise the user's level of fitness, thereby reducing risk of injury and illness. Although developed for seniors, Fitness Forever is appropriate for anyone, any age with a physical condition such as arthritis, diabetes, heart disease, or high blood pressure.

This medically-designed, precedent setting video has won prestigious awards such as the MediMedia FREDDIE Award and The National Council on Aging Molly Mettler Award for Excellence in Health Promotion. In addition, Fitness Forever is the only workout video approved by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM).

The video features a functional fitness workout including cardiovascular fitness development, strength training, flexibility, relaxation and meditation in a supportive and encouraging environment. The exercises may be adapted to a wide range of fitness levels, both active and inactive, seated as well as standing.

Fitness Forever is specifically designed to meet the needs of seniors from a variety of health levels. The video comes packaged with a "Senior Exercise Prescription Form" making it easy for the senior to receive a medically appropriate exercise prescription from their physician. The program also includes an M.D. Update Log providing the senior with an effective tool to track their exercise along with a mechanism to report progress back to their physician. Throughout the video seniors are cued by the instructor to check their heart rate using the easy to read "on-screen" seconds clock, and their Rate of Physical Exertion (RPE). To further ensure a safe workout Fitness Forever has created ticker text scrolling with workout safety reminders and "Doc-in-a-Box" medical tips from Michael MacQuarrie, M.D.

The instructor in the video is a senior, and an ACSM Certified Health Fitness Instructor leading actual members of a Fitness Forever class. Fitness Forever was filmed entirely on the shores of Lake Tahoe providing an inspiring setting with spectacular views.

Fitness Forever means living your life with optimum functioning of your body's systems, having the physical and mental strength and energy to successfully do the activities you choose, and having the vitality and enthusiasm that come with good health. The Fitness Forever video lives up to its name, and is the perfect exercise program for healthy aging.