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Sam Hopes

I train my 72-year-old dad, and here's the one move he swears by for building his functional core strength and mobile hips

A senior man going to workout .

I've been training my dad for about six years, and amongst the grumbles I get for "going too hard on him," I have watched his balance, strength and mobility transform in that time.

There are some essential strength exercises I add to his routine (in various forms) regularly, but we often work on his mobility twice a week. We try to stay as low on equipment as we can, but for the exercise I'm sharing with you, you don't need anything except a resistance band, but even that's optional.

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