today we're going to do a leg workout for women over 50 hi I'm Schellea and
welcome to Fabulous 50's this leg workout is just for you if you're a
woman over 50 you need to be doing this every single day first thing we're going
to do is warm up our legs so hold onto a chair hands on your hip and start
swinging if you can do this exercise without the chair practice your balance
because that's one of the things that help us with aging is getting better at
our balance straight back forward back
okay change legs
you're going to love these exercises I'm using a yoga block and it's this size so
anything that you had at home that's this size you can use yoga block on the
floor hands on our hips and we take our right leg and lift it over the yoga
block it looks simple but you just wait what we're doing with these exercises is
we're using a cross body exercise to activate our mind and make our mind and
body work together keep your leg activated and point your toe and you
just go over the block we're going to do 4 sets of 30 seconds for these and each
time we're going to increase the height that we lift our leg and you stay at
whatever level you feel comfortable with so the next 30 seconds try lifting to a
different height hands on your hips and we'll use a left leg now
so we point our toe and go over it's a little bit more challenging which is
good these cross body exercises are really great for women our age because
it activates our mind and it activates our creativity
keep going you can feel it now oh okay if you could manage that level try
something a little bit higher like a laundry basket and start again on your
right leg okay take it slow and purpose split and point your toe hold your core
in and you can feel it a lot here it'll burn I started doing these exercises
every day and it is strengthening my legs like crazy I love them keep your
balance whoo and if that was easy for you you go again you add your height
keep in mind to stay on whatever you feel comfortable with whatever height is
good for you practice and practice that and then move your way out okay left leg
this is definitely a lot harder keep your body straight and your core in
tight the whole time
no matter what fitness level you're at this is amazing for all of us every
woman over 50 would benefit from doing this every day it's a lot more tiring
than you think oh I can feel that and I'm puffing out and I can feel a burn
right here in my legs so let me know if you can - we're going to start to turn
our thighs now so lay your body in a straight line and your arm holding your
body up and we're going to do 30 seconds on each leg when you do this hold all
the muscles in your legs tight and squeeze your glutes that way you'll get
the most benefit out of this workout you can do this in front of TV or when
you're watching YouTube videos and doing this is a lot better than sitting down
any time of the day okay let's change legs
straight body keep both legs activated and this will really help your thighs
and if you can do this whenever you think about it you don't have to do a
full workout but if you're just sitting down do something like this because we
sit too much and it's not great for our spine or our posture or our body
okay now we're going to do a yoga exercise called yoga frogs and these are
fantastic for your legs so you get into a position like this on your toes heels
together and fingers on the ground like this and then we lift and come down so
chest out front and then you put your head down these are amazing for toning
your legs this is a great one for all of us to do at our age because it boosts
our personal power and who doesn't want more of that
well done if you just did a minute of those you are doing it very very well
take some time to stretch now because we just did a lot of work it doesn't seem
like watching it it's a lot of work but when you actually do it you'll agree
with me that you're puffed out and you feel really good because that was great
stretch your leg it's just done some very hard work that first exercise that
we did really try and integrate that into your daily life because anytime
that we're using cross body exercises where if you draw a line down the middle
of your body and say you use your left hand to your right leg like this our
brains being activated and as we're getting older this is what happens we
don't use our brains enough we just continue doing daily life in our
patterns and if that's the case we get old and we don't want to get old we want
to stay vital so doing cross body exercises just like even this is
something really great we can do we can also do things like as soon as you wake
up in the morning get out of bed on the other side the then you normally do or
clean your teeth with your left hand if you're right-handed anything we can do
to confuse our mind is actually really great for us because we want to be
constantly challenged and creating new brain cells to work out new ways to do
things and that's part of why we exercise and part of the reason that I
love bringing you new things every week because trying new things as we're
getting older is going to keep us young I really enjoyed working out with you
today I hope you loved the workout and if you did please give it a thumbs up
and share it with your friends thank you so much for watching and have a
beautiful week