Maintain your strength and lean muscle mass with this series of non weight bearing bodyweight strength exercises including.
Floor weight bearing exercises.
Bend your knees creating a 90 degree angle.
However the back should always be.
Lie on your back and lift your feet off the ground.
Muscle strengthening exercises for osteoporosis and osteopenia include lifting light weights and balance or flexibility exercises.
Non weight bearing bodyweight strength exercises.
These weight bearing exercises can be as simple as sitting down in a chair and then standing up johnson says adding that he once had a client who claimed she wasn t able to do a squat yet drove a little sports car that he struggled not to point out required to her essentially squat every time she got in or out of the low vehicl.
Keeping your body in one long line bend your arms and lower.
3 attention should also be made to help strengthen the abdominal muscles to stabilize the back because osteoporosis commonly results in compression fractures in the spinal column.
Start in a high plank position with your hands flat on the floor a little bit wider than shoulder width apart wrists under shoulders.
Finish your workout with a non weight bearing stretching sequence to help you stay flexible and mobile.
Weight bearing exercises for osteoporosis and osteopenia include walking using elliptical machines or stair machines and low impact aerobics.
Modified pushups leg raises hip lifts modified planks sit ups crunches and more.
Non weight bearing flexibility training exercises.