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Resistance exercise

21 Popular Exercises for the Robust Elderly

A visual guide to common resistance and functional exercises. Always consult a clinician before beginning an exercise program, especially with kidney disease, frailty, cardiovascular disease, neuropathy, or balance limitations.

21 popular exercises for the robust elderly, organized by shoulders, arms, chest, core, hips, back, and legs.

Exercise Sheet

This page preserves the full exercise poster as a single large image so it can be viewed, printed, or shown during teaching. Created with biorender.com

Start conservatively. The goal is safe progressive resistance training, not maximal lifting. Stop with chest pain, severe shortness of breath, dizziness, new neurologic symptoms, or unsafe joint pain.