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Trainer's Package

Strong for Life Trainer's Package Contains:
  • Strong for Life exercise video
  • Exercise: It's Never Too Late motivational video
  • Trainer's Manual - 40 pages, full-color
  • User's Guide - 30 pages, full-color

The Trainer's Manual guides you on how to be effective in using the Strong for Life exercise program and specifically what steps you should follow to teach the exercise program to older adults. The user's guide provides illustrations and detailed descriptions of the Strong for Life exercises and pointers on how to participate and adhere to the Strong for Life exercise program.
COST: $190.00

User's Guide and Videotape

Strong for Life User's Guide and Video Contains:

  • Strong for Life exercise video
  • User's Guide - 30 pages, full-color

COST: $60.00 (Note: cost for persons 65 or older is $30.00)

Strong for Life products are distributed through the
Health and Disability Research Institute (see order information)

Note: Therabands are not included

Find out where to purchase Theraband® resistive exercise bands used in the Strong for Life exercise program.

Exercise Images

Warm Up Seated Hip Extensions Resisted Rows Heel Raises Victory Exercise

The Strong for Life video contains the following sequence of exercises: 

  • Warm Up 
  • Hip Extensions 
  • Ankle Pumps 
  • Resisted Rowing 
  • Heel Raises 
  • Standing Diagonals (LE and UE) 
  • Victory Exercise 
  • Knees in and Out 
  • Get Up and Go (sequence 37K file) 
  • Overhead Arm Extensions 
  • Cool Down

Videotape

The introduction of Strong for Life describes the importance of exercise with aging, and shows some exercise clips described above. We have compiled several versions of the same clip for your convenience. Choose the connection speed closest to yours. Netscape users: hold down shift and click on link to save a copy of the Quicktime file to hard disk. Click on the Realplayer or Quicktime icons for information on retrieving software to view the video clips.

Realplayer
28K Modem download
56K Modem download
LAN download (best quality)

Quicktime
28K Modem download: strong28k.mov (132KB)

 
*HDRI cannot provide technical support for video playback.

 

 

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