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Over 70? THIS 1 simple Chair Exercise is Better Than Walking - Surgeon Approved

If you could only do ONE exercise for the rest of your life after 70… what should it be? Walking? Many orthopedic surgeons say there’s something far more powerful. After decades of repairing hip fractures, knee injuries, and fall-related trauma in older adults, surgeons consistently point to one simple movement that predicts independence better than almost anything else. 🪑 THE EXERCISE: Chair Squats (Sit-to-Stand) For adults over 70, the ability to stand up from a chair without using your hands is one of the strongest predictors of strength, balance, and fall prevention. If standing up feels difficult, your fall risk increases significantly. And here’s the truth: Walking is great for your heart — but it does NOT rebuild the leg power that protects you from falls. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📊 WHY WALKING ALONE ISN’T ENOUGH AFTER 70 • Walking is mostly horizontal movement • Standing up requires vertical strength and power • Different muscle activation patterns • You can walk daily and still struggle with low chairs or couches • Falls happen during transitions — not during steady walking ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💪 HOW TO DO CHAIR SQUATS SAFELY (For Seniors 70+) Stand in front of a sturdy chair Feet shoulder-width apart Extend arms forward for balance Push hips back and bend knees Lower slowly for 3–4 seconds Lightly touch the chair (don’t fully sit) Press through heels to stand tall Slow and controlled wins. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 SIMPLE WEEKLY PRESCRIPTION • 8–10 repetitions • 2 sets • 3–4 times per week • Takes less than 5 minutes As strength improves, build up to 12–15 reps. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ WHY SURGEONS SUPPORT CHAIR SQUATS • Directly trains the sit-to-stand movement • Strengthens quadriceps, glutes, hamstrings, and core • Improves balance and coordination • Reduces fall risk • Protects long-term independence For Americans over 70 who want to stay independent, mobile, and confident — this movement is essential. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👉 WHO SHOULD WATCH • Adults over 70 • Seniors who rely only on walking • Anyone struggling to rise from chairs • Caregivers of elderly parents • Older adults concerned about falls Keep walking for cardiovascular health. Add chair squats for strength, power, and independence. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 Subscribe to Forever Fit Senior for weekly senior health and strength videos designed specifically for adults 70+ in the USA. 🔔 Turn on notifications so you never miss a new senior exercise routine. 💬 COMMENT BELOW: How old are you — and were you able to do 10 chair squats today without using your hands? We read every comment and love hearing from our Forever Fit Senior community. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ Disclaimer: This video from Forever Fit Senior is for educational purposes only and is not medical advice. Always consult your physician or healthcare provider before starting any exercise program, especially if you have medical conditions, balance issues, joint pain, or prior injuries. Forever Fit Senior and its creators are not responsible for injuries resulting from misuse of this content. Participate at your own risk and always prioritize safety. Stay strong. Stay independent. Stay Forever Fit. 💪 #ChairSquatsForSeniors #Over70Fitness #SeniorStrengthTraining #SitToStandExercise #FallPreventionExercises #ExercisesFor70Plus #SeniorWorkoutAtHome #HealthyAgingUSA #StrongerAfter70 #LegStrengthForSeniors #IndependenceAfter70 #BalanceExercisesForElderly #SeniorMobilityWorkout #HomeExerciseForElderly #ForeverFitSenior #USA Seniors #AmericanSeniors #SeniorHealthUSA #ActiveAfter70