Many participants in Zoe Bellinghausen’s online exercise classes had been attending for years, familiar with their classmates ...

Working with older adults revealed simple but powerful lessons about movement, motivation, and the importance of community in staying active for life.

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About 13 years ago, Rita Baker, 75, of Piedmont first noticed the way Derek Freeman worked out. Freeman, a six-foot-three body builder, was at Piedmont’s Clyde H. Pike Civic Center’s gym when she ...

At 92, Phyllis Stevenson has earned the right to be candid, a habit she brings — along with a heaping dish of candy — to her biweekly Strong Seniors fitness classes at English Lutheran Church.

Janice Howard said it’s always good to exercise. The senior enrollee in Muskogee Public Library’s Stay Active and Independent for Life program said exercise gives her more energy. “I was just curious, ...

A large study of older Australians has found more would exercise—and exercise better—if classes were subsidized. The Monash University research studied exercise classes all over the country, which had ...