Senior Fitness With Meredith

Hello and thank you for joining us today on the podcast! In this episode we breakdown the most important reasons why our posture is important and follow up with a few tips on how you can help improve your posture. Having good posture is key to so many aspects of our physical lives. From standing up as straight as possible to sitting down with a balanced spine. These are all things that affect our...

Hello and thank you for joining us on this podcast episode! This week we are covering an important topic that affects many people every year, receiving a cancer diagnosis and how that affects your ability to stay active during this time. There are many types of cancers and no one diagnosis means the same for everyone. Our bodies deal with this disease differently and if you or someone you know get...

Hello and thank you again for joining us this week on the podcast! This week is a great discussion on how regular exercise can naturally help lower high blood pressure. High blood pressure is a common problem in many people. Some are even born with it and if not looked after carefully it can cause major problems down the road. But it doesn’t have to be that way! Using regular exercise and watching...

Greetings and thanks for joining us on today’s podcast! In this episode we’re talking about an important subject that affects everyone at some time or another, getting better sleep. We all can struggle with this and for very different reasons. Be it a restless mind, physical pain or something else, not getting enough sleep affects everyone. Why is getting good sleep so important? Getting restful s...

Hello and thank you for joining us on this important episode! Being proud of your accomplishments can seem like a no brainer but for some of us when it comes to fitness goals and achieving them we tend to dis-credit our efforts. Why is that? Getting down on our selves and no giving yourself the credit you deserve is crucial to making more progress and installing healthier habits. Being proud of yo...

Hello and thank you again for joining us on the podcast! This week we’re diving more into why practicing kindness is so important to us as a society. Being kind to others when we hold doubts about our feelings towards others, ourselves and possibly situations is so important. It helps keep us grounded in so many ways and benefits our happiness more than we mat know. Showing kindness can easily be...

Hello and thank you again for joining us on this week’s podcast! In this episode we are discussing the challenges of living an active lifestyle while dealing with the effects from living with fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia is a disorder characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain accompanied by fatigue, sleep, memory and mood issues. It can be challenging to stay active while dealing with these k...

Hello and thanks for joining us on this episode! In this podcast we are getting into a great discussion on how dancing actually has great benefits for you if incorporated as a regular workout exercise. When we normally think of exercises that have great health benefits like heart health, cardiovascular health, endurance, strength and even brain health we usually don't think about dancing. But...

Thank you for joining us on today’s podcast! For this episode we are talking about something that we all deal with from time to time. Staying motivated. This is the second episode that where we cover this topic, the first you can also check out here. We thought this is such an important topic to talk about especially during challenging times. Motivation to stay healthy no matter what age is what d...

Hello and thanks for joining us for today’s episode! For this podcast we wanted to discuss the challenges of living with arthritis and especially how that affects your active lifestyle. Living with arthritis pain can be a challenge especially if you are very independent and active. The pain associated with arthritis can limit our ability to participate in activities that get us up and active. Not...

Hello and thank you for joining us on this episode of the podcast! For this episode Meredith is going in depth about proper skin care and how to avoid problems with skin that can evolve over time. Having healthy skin is so important especially as we age. With our skin being exposed to so many elements over time, we can quickly start to see how it affects our health. Fortunately there are things we...

Greetings and thank you for joining us for this episode! Today we are discussing an important issue that doesn’t get much attention when it comes to fitness, seniors and living an active and healthy lifestyle. Vertigo and ailments that affect balance. Dealing with issues due to vertigo can cause real problems everyday because it can affect all of your movements from getting out of bed to walking u...

Hello again and thank you for joining us on today’s podcast! In this episode, Meredith will be discussing some great tips on how to help you avoid dehydration which seems like something easy to do (drink water!) but in reality, many people forget to take in enough liquids during the day which easily leads to feeling worn out and in some cases require a hospital visit. Drinking liquids is something...

Hello and thank you again for joining us today on the podcast! In this episode, Meredith is discussing something that almost everyone has to deal with at some point or time. Back pain or what can also be referred to as “Sciatica”. What causes back pain? How do we deal with it? Can we still live an active lifestyle if we struggle with it? These are all great questions and very commonly asked especi...

Hello and thanks for joining us on this podcast! For this episode, we are diving into a topic that we feel is important to consider no matter what age you are. Regular meditation. What is meditation and why should you try it? A great question! And precisely the reason why we wanted to do a podcast on it. Meditation can be a great way to improve brain function, relieve stress, provide clarity, and...

Hello and thanks for joining us on this episode! Today’s podcast is all about agility training. What is it? Why is it important? and how does this pertain to seniors? All great questions and indeed good reasons why we felt it was important to dedicate an episode to this topic. Agility training involves a lot of different types of physical movements geared towards improving your body’s ability to f...

We often get comments on our videos with viewers commenting on how they like the reminders of breathing during the workouts. Also, questions and comments arise about why water breaks are taken. We believe that both are equally important, and good reminders! Breathing: Seems like a silly thing to “remind” someone to breath but how easy it is to forget when we are concentrating on a move, what muscl...

Hello and thanks for joining us on this podcast episode! For this session, we’re discussing different and helpful tips on taking care of your back. The entire back area, from the upper back, down the spine, into the lower back, is one of the most injury prone, and complained about due to pain. Time takes a toll on the body, as gravity wears down on us. This compresses the spine causing pain. Also,...

Greetings and thanks for joining us on this podcast episode! In this episode we are covering one of the most important aspects of staying active and healthy: Stretching! Stretching on a daily basis can help your body in many ways and help make your exercising easier on your body. You’ll also benefit from the lengthening in your spine and flexibility in your joints to help better stabilize you duri...

Greetings and thanks for joining us on today's podcast! For this episode we wanted to talk about an important aspect of living an active lifestyle.  Being sick or ill. It's not something anyone looks forward to but it is a fact of life. We all get sick at times and it's hard to stay active and motivated when it happens. There is also the question of when is it safe to get back into...

Hello! and thank you for joining us on today’s podcast. For this episode, we’ll be discussing some of the best strength training exercises for seniors ages 65+ There are some myths about using weights to exercise no matter what age group you’re in. “Will I get too big?”, “Will I lose weight?”. There are many misconceptions that go along with weight training and we wanted to spend some time discuss...

Hello and thanks for joining us on today’s podcast. Today’s topic is important as we go through challenging times right now. Today we’re discussing ways to stay positive and active during challenging times. More specifically right now as we are all challenged by the COVID-19 virus.  Times like this where we are required to social distance ourselves from others and cut ourselves off from loved ones...

Greetings and thank you for joining us on today’s podcast! In this episode we discuss how we have decided to now categorize our workout videos which we post weekly on YouTube into 4 different levels of fitness. We’ve decided to make this change to the way we post workouts because like all generations, not everyone is at the same level of fitness. The same goes for seniors. Just because you are of...

Greetings and thank you again for joining us on the podcast today! In this episode, we'll be talking about some tips on improving your balance and posture. Balance and posture is one of the most important aspects of handling the challenges that we see every day. In seniors, this can be even more difficult if our balance is off or the strength we need to stand tall and stabilize ourselves is l...

Welcome to another episode of the Senior Fitness With Meredith Podcast! In this episode, we are taking a closer look at how to set up a schedule for exercise that will give you the best chances of consistency and success. It’s not easy staying on top of our exercising schedule especially when life can get busy, no matter what age you’re at. Furthermore, exercising may not always be on top of the l...