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How to Future-proof Your Body: Fitness Strategies over 50

Learn how you can build bone mass and muscle mass, improve flexibility and balance, maintain joint mobility, and support a healthy spine

Register for the 4-session workshop series

Tuesday lunchtime series: April 4, April 11, April 25, May 2, 12:15-1:15pm in AOERC 103B 

Price: $50 for an entire series

The changes that occur in the body starting in a person’s 50’s present new fitness challenges. Though women exhibit many of these changes earlier than men due to menopause, both men and women need to begin a more targeted approach to fitness in order to maintain functional movement and quality of life. 

This four-part workshop series covers strategies on how to build bone mass and muscle mass, improve flexibility and balance, maintain joint mobility, and support a healthy spine. Armed with the knowledge of how to prevent dysfunction, preserve healthy function, and intervene with fitness and better habits where needed, it is possible build a strong foundation in order to move forward able to enjoy an active life for years to come.

This workshop is not a workout session, though there will be some movement during the presentation.

Carol Sundermeyer is a Certified Balanced Body Comprehensive Pilates Instructor and has worked at Stanford Recreation and Wellness since 2017 teaching Pilates group classes and working with clients 1:1. She developed the Better and Bones and Balance class addressing issues important for the 50+ population.

Carol has also completed the Buff Bones certification on fitness for bone loss, the Pink Ribbon Program certification for fitness for breast cancer recovery, and has completed continuing education on working with obese clients, care for lower back pain, and tech posture.