Video: Weight Training for Osteoarthritis

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Osteoarthritis is a very painful degenerative disease in which the body starts to lose cartilage in its joints. Put together a great weight-training workout to help maintain bone density and help with osteoarthritis with exercise tips from an experienced personal trainer in this free video on fitness and exercises.

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Hi this is Aaron Hale at Fitness for Life here in Wilmington, North Carolina here to talk to you a little bit today about weight training for osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis is a very painful degenerative disease in which we start to lose cartilage in our joints and we start to get a lot of that bone on bone and it is very painful but there are some things that we can do to kind of offset that. As far as the degenerative disease itself we have to make sure that we maintain our bone density. Now to maintain our bone density weight training is very beneficial in that sense so what we want to do is focus on, let's for instance we have osteoarthritis in our hips and in our knees what we want to do is some things like some light weight squat presses or some light weight dead lifts, those sorts of things that are going to be a little bit easier on the joints but are also going to help us maintain that bone density that we will need so that it is not as painful. Now some things that we can do outside of the gym, swimming is a wonderful activity for people for osteoarthritis. It is very very easy on the joints, not a whole lot of pressure. Inside the gym typically an elliptical machine which is a very low impact machine. It is going to be a great machine or the stationary bike. I would probably avoid the treadmill as it typically has a little bit of impact so you should stay away from those. A little ice and heat at the end of the day but maintaining that bone density is very important so like I said squat presses, low weight, make sure that it is low weight, we don't want to put too much added stress on but we do want to make sure that we are getting that work out in to maintain that bone density which is very important. So that is weight training for osteoarthritis, Aaron Hale at Fitness for Life. Thank you.

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