Weight bearing exercises for osteoporosis and osteopenia include walking using elliptical machines or stair machines and low impact aerobics.
Floor weight bearing exercises.
Non weight bearing flexibility training exercises.
Lie on your back and lift your feet off the ground.
Muscle strengthening exercises for osteoporosis and osteopenia include lifting light weights and balance or flexibility exercises.
Bend your knees creating a 90 degree angle.
Try weight bearing workouts that stress bones and muscles more than your everyday life says paul mystkowski md an endocrinologist at virginia mason medical center in seattle and clinical.
However the back should always be.
Like a leg press on a weight machine this exercise makes you work against gravity.
These weight bearing exercises can be as simple as sitting down in a chair and then standing up johnson says adding that he once had a client who claimed she wasn t able to do a squat yet drove a little sports car that he struggled not to point out required to her essentially squat every time she got in or out of the low vehicl.
Finish your workout with a non weight bearing stretching sequence to help you stay flexible and mobile.
3 attention should also be made to help strengthen the abdominal muscles to stabilize the back because osteoporosis commonly results in compression fractures in the spinal column.
These workouts can include basic moves such as standing and rising on your toes lifting your own body weight with exercises like push ups or squats and using equipment such as.
Keeping your body in one long line bend your arms and lower.
Start in a high plank position with your hands flat on the floor a little bit wider than shoulder width apart wrists under shoulders.