wellness
Embrace Exercise Over 50: Embrace Health
Aging is an inevitable part of life, and as we enter our golden years, maintaining good health becomes even more crucial. Regular workouts play a pivotal role in enhancing the quality of life for senior citizens. It offers numerous physical, mental, and emotional benefits that contribute to overall well-being. In this blog, we will explore…
Read MoreCane-Chi – A Fitness and Rehab System
Eight time world champion and Grand Master Mark Shuey, with the help of Dr. John Ruberto, Bruce Vinciguerra and Timothy House Introduced Cane Chi. It was a whole new cane-based exercise program with an emphasis on wellness. Cane Chi isn’t martial arts. Instead, it combines resistance bands as well as a cane into a great…
Read MoreAbout that New Year’s Fitness Resolution…
The Holidays have come and gone. It’s a new year. Unless you use a little time to get more fit and flexible, how will you enjoy it? Luckily, moving with us at The American Cane System is a fun healthy way to keep that new year’s fitness resolution. We think the fun in fitness and…
Read MoreMy Secret to Better Health This Holiday Season
I love a good secret, don’t you? When that secret is the difference between feeling okay and feeling GREAT, I am especially excited about sharing it. So here’s my secret to better health for the holidays: Deep Breathing in Yoga Play at the Virtual Dojo. Oh, there’s lots more to Yoga Play, but the most…
Read MoreYoga at the Virtual Dojo
Some of you may still not realize the American Cane System added Yoga classes in the schedule. Once I thought I was rather good at breathing. In a recent conversation with Grandmaster Shuey, I think I remarked that a day didn’t go by in which I didn’t breathe several times. Then Grandmaster Mark Shuey explained…
Read MoreTACS – What You Need to Know About This Great Online Workout for Seniors
Feeling tired lately? Has Your get up and go, just gone? Though it seems illogical, the way to have more energy, is to spend some in exercise. We’d like to recommend TACS as a great online workout for seniors. In fact, researchers report exercise offers lots of great advantages to enjoy. And there are lots…
Read MoreMy Secret Weapon – The American Cane System
Secret Weapon – The Amercian Cane System Written and Contributed by Jo Gardner, Student They tell me I’m older now. Sometimes I feel it, but other days, I’m irritated that I have been categorized as a “senior”. Sure, I love the discounts at restaurants and banks. But I am frustrated by the patronizing way millennials…
Read More5 Ways of Getting Back a Spring In Your Step This Spring
It’s Spring! In Nevada that means it’s getting hot! For everywhere north of Nevada, It means mild temperatures are back and people are getting outdoors again. That’s great since it gives us the lift we sometimes need to get fit. If you struggle to get moving again, explore these five ways of getting back a…
Read MoreCane Chi Uses Canes to Build Strength
Canes as strength building device Pick up your cane! Seniors who hated the idea of using the cane as a mobility device have discovered a way to own it! By using the cane in Cane Chi and Cane Fu exercises, students of The American Cane System are gaining health and mobility. Every day, Grandmaster Mark…
Read MoreFirst, Full Yogic Breath
Cane Fu, But First, Breathe Before you kick, before you learn defensive arcs with your cane, learn to breathe. “Of course I’m breathing; I’m alive,” you react. We’re not talking about the light breathing of regular living. We’re talking about the kind of breathing that strengthens your lungs and gets the toxins out. Full yogic…
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