You CAN create positive change.
“Mind Your Movement” provides easily applicable tips and client stories from author Laura Dow’s 20 years of experience as an award-winning fitness professional working with older adults. Learn how to move your body better as you age.
About Laura Dow
Laura Dow has worked with older adults for more than 20 years, providing fitness training and yoga instruction in a variety of fitness settings, including commercial health clubs, yoga studios, and continuing care retirement communities.
She created her award-winning company, “Stiff To Fit”, specifically to address how to stay active as we age. Her book, “Mind Your Movement,” is a continuation of her work, offering easily understood, actionable tips to help readers add more movement to their lives.
Understand why increased awareness of your mind will help you succeed in moving better. Like a trusted friend, “Mind Your Movement” supports and encourages you.
Buy The BookAn absolute gem and incredibly valuable
Valeria L.
Small Business Coach
Fantastic read, engaging and unexpectedly touching
Colleen K.
Attorney and grandmother
Enlightening and illuminating, I highly recommend this book
Mary Ann D.
Assistant Director for Health
Martha S.
Founder & Owner, Hearts & Hands Reiki
An ideal handbook, comprehensive and well thought out
Gail McMeekin
LICSW, career & creativity coach and author
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Mixed Messages: Overcoming Ageist Barriers to Physical Activity For Older Adults
Laura Dow, Founder of Stiff To Fit, will be a featured presenter at the Art and Science of Aging Conference at Grand Valley State University, offering an overview of ageism in fitness as it concerns older adults. Topics include ageist beliefs, language and the non-science-based link between ability and age.
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Mind Your Movement
A Q&A About The Book’s Best Advice
On the eve of publishing her book, “Mind Your Movement”, Laura Dow sat for an interview that covered some of the book’s main points, including get started moving now/doing something you can do right away, and then tailor your activity to include a bit more as you progress.
“Yes, you’re absolutely right. The field is just inundated with information. And one of the charms, if I may say it like that, of this book is that it’s very common sense. Again, it’s based on 20 years of working primarily with women over the age of 50, all the way up to 103. And a 50-year-old is not going to exercise the way a 103-year-old exercises and vice versa.
So, any movement routine must be very adaptable, which means that you start with basics. When I work with a woman in that any age category, I ask what she is able to do now? What does she have trouble with? I always try to start from success rather than starting with something that maybe a 30-year-old woman could do, like a burpee, that a 65-year-old woman doesn’t want any part of.”
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