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Our lifespan has lengthened. Seniors represents an important category of population which practice more and more physical activities at the retirement age, i.e. approximately around sixty years.

For remaining dynamic and awakening, it's advised to practice a physical activity. Also it makes possible to keep in touch with active life. Moreover, maintenance or improvement of the physical condition at this age allows to be independence from the others, to come out of its isolation, to communicate, to make oneself useful.

Practice of a sport will help organism to keep its flexibility, its mobility, to maintain cardiopulmonary system. It will also slow down senescence and will help to preserve psychological tonicity.

However, it is advisable to be careful in the practice and in the choice of disciplines because motivations and capacities physical and biomechanical are not the same one as for a teenager. 

Receptive capacities fall, there are an increase of fats in the myocardium (falls of S.V., Stroke Volume of the heart), an increase of fats in muscles, the bones tissues become more fragile contrary to the ligaments tissues, the decrease in the number of cells at the respiratory level, the decrease in the elasticity of the lungs and the rib cage, the decrease of flexibility.

 According to your passed history, three types of techniques of training can be considered:

- For veteran sporty men or women, it's recommended to practice walking, jogging, bicycle or swimming in order to continue or to practice again regular sport activities. It will be necessary to keep control of the intensity what excluded aggressive or dangerous sports.

- For people who have articular joints problems or which had accidents ( fractures ... ), it will be necessary to consider remedial gymnastics. This exercises are prescribe by a doctor.

- For others, you can practice gymnastics of maintenance, stretching, games. Many structures exist: clubs, associations, spas ...

Exercises will have to be proportioned and non violent. Warm up will be of primary importance and its duration will be consequent in order to avoid all injuries. Think to spare the articulations, the bones, which are more fragile at this age. Do stretching, muscular reinforcement but to avoid shocks (explosive strength).

It's reasonable to take part in homogeneous collective courses for beginners in order to avoid the dangerous situations using of the motor tasks out of your possibilities.

We propose to you to establish a personalized training workouts to allow you to achieve your goals (toning up, maintenance, improvement, loss of weight, muscular development and so on ... ). The routines are established by our specialists in coaching, according to a precise questionnaire which you will have to fill out. These detailed routines are complementary to our files and will serve to you as " your personal guidelines ". If you are interested, register !