Muscle strengthening exercises for osteoporosis and osteopenia include lifting light weights and balance or flexibility exercises.
Floor weight bearing exercises.
Like a leg press on a weight machine this exercise makes you work against gravity.
Try weight bearing workouts that stress bones and muscles more than your everyday life says paul mystkowski md an endocrinologist at virginia mason medical center in seattle and clinical.
Modified pushups leg raises hip lifts modified planks sit ups crunches and more.
Weight bearing exercises for osteoporosis and osteopenia include walking using elliptical machines or stair machines and low impact aerobics.
However the back should always be.
Non weight bearing bodyweight strength exercises.
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.
Lie on your back and lift your feet off the ground.
Maintain your strength and lean muscle mass with this series of non weight bearing bodyweight strength exercises including.
Keeping your body in one long line bend your arms and lower.
Bend your knees creating a 90 degree angle.
Finish your workout with a non weight bearing stretching sequence to help you stay flexible and mobile.
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.