Chair Pilates: Gentle Exercises for Seniors and Beginners

Welcome to our Chair Pilates: Gentle Exercises for Seniors and Beginners video. These chair exercises for seniors over 60 will build strength with no twisting or bending. This gentle pilates for beginners may also be arthritis friendly. Please check with your health care professional to determine if this workout is right for you.

These exercises for seniors over 60 and beginner workout at home require a sturdy chair with no arms and pillow for one of the exercises. You can do them in your bare feet or socks.

00:00 Introduction
00:49 Warm Up
03:35 Pilates Breathing
04:46 Arm Pulses
06:19 Pullbacks
07:30 Arm Criss Crosses
08:20 Arm Reaches
08:56 Gentle Kicks
10:00 Single Circles from the Hip
11:45 Gentle Hinge
12:54 Glute/Thigh Squeeze
14:16 Toes Up and Spread
15:37 Heel Raises
16:26 Cooldown Foot Circles

Benefits of pilates includes:
✅ Stronger muscles around joints, promoting joint stability
✅ Increased bone density
✅ Improved posture, balance, and mobility
✅ Sharper mind body connection: the mindful movement and concentration of Pilates can help improve mental focus and coordination and reduce stress.

All of this adds up to helping you maintain your independence and ability to do your daily activities such as walking, picking up your grandkids or furbabies, with ease.

Pilates focuses on increasing core strength and breathing correctly is important. Let’s practice Pilates breathing:
✳️ Pull your belly button in
✳️ Place hands on sides of lower rib case
✳️ Inhale through your nose and feel breath expand to the sides
✳️ Exhale through your mouth
✳️ Repeat.

Want to learn how to breathe correctly during cardio and strength exercise? Check out this video:

Estimated calorie burn for:
🔥 A 120 lb (54.4 kg) person: 39 calories
🔥 A 200 lb (90.7 kg) person: 64 calories

Please note that these estimates are rough calculations and don't take into account individual variations, such as fitness level and other factors that can affect calorie burn. Additionally, these estimates include the calories burned during the exercise itself and do not account for the calories burned at rest or through other activities throughout the day.

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Disclaimer: This program is provided with your health and safety in mind, but every individual has their own limitations. It is crucial that you consult with your physician before beginning this or any other exercise program. This program is not a substitute for professional medical diagnosis, treatment or advice. By participating in this exercise program, you do so at your own risk. Please stop if you experience pain, dizziness, or shortness of breath.

[GayleGamache]

Love your exercises IU do them all the time with chair I am 78.

[LkeGal]

I love these - I'd love some suggestions/help organizing them all - this overwhelmed senior doesn't know where to begin sorting all the workouts out! I only come to YouTube for this. But you ladies are godsends, thank you for doing this.

[elizabethbogard]

I never realized Pilates had so much to do with breathing. I enjoyed this workout. Thank you.

[lorettapatches]

I love this exercise. I try to do it every morning if my sciatic isn't too painful. I've let my chiropractor know about your YouTube site for his older clients. He was happy to be able to recommend something for those that can do gentle exercises.

[trinesteenmortensen]

I ❤❤❤❤ the two of you together and the Way you you show your ❤ and affektion for your beautiful and sweet Mr Mochi the gentle and talkative giant 😻😘😻and especially that You’re making space for him letting him be a part of You’re exercise programs simply melts my heart completely ❤ I love the episode where you fetch an ekstra chair for your mum because of Mr Mochi 😻♥️showing that you understand him ❤😻
I love the way you work together and talk to eachother and I love there’s no loud music (tinnitus )and up tempo exercise I can’t follow or hurt myself while doing them
My point .I ❤❤❤ you and your programs and and do at least one of the small programs every day

[joansmith]

Great beginners Pilates and for those like me that can't do the intense routines like I did years ago. Thank you!

[mkit]

Thank you so much for adding osteoporosis friendly exercises😀

[stangetzproductions]

FAB April and Aiko, you are and excellent double act, complimenting each other beautifully. I really enjoyed it for both body and the little grey cells. Thank you ❤

[marthafontaine]

Thank you for sharing. Great workout. Never done Pliates (heard of it but never done it) It is refreshing and encouraging to see somebody my age working out with you. All the exercise videos I have followed looked like the instructor was under 60. Keep up the good work.

[SusanBrown-ndmw]

I can’t wait to try this! You two are absolute gems…TY!

[BBurns-vgom]

That's brilliant. I've joined in and enjoyed. ❤xxx

[spiritofrose]

I am so delighted to have found this. So I'll start my day with this, then move onto the weightloss exercises. Bless you April for thinking about & helping us seniors. God bless.❤

[tonigerdel]

Almost got the whole video but I could only do 14 mins. I am sweating now so worked for me! Thank you. 😌 being a disabled senior makes exercise hard but I could do most of the moves! Yay! 🎈😊

[patriciawayne]

Thank you so much for your exercise program!I love the Pilates!

[karen]

❤Thank you for another excellent gentle start to the day.

[staceyreynolds]

Thank you for this new exercise. Looking forward to you expanding this into another workout.

[yogihugs]

With the soft music it was like I was doing meditation awesome love it have a great day ladies thank you

[triciapotter]

Oh April and Mom, I loved that, what a lovely way to exercise and its full of feel good factor too. Thank you, 😊xx

[deborahjones]

THANK YOU so much for this osteoporosis support - Arohanui - much love

[just_janice_]

Thanks for all the regular new content. It's nice to be able to try something new in a way that is at my level. great work❤