Move to the Music
This 1966 Nancy Sinatra hit contains a form of exercise that many health professionals recommend for healthy aging.
What is These Boots Are Made for Walkin'?
What flies without wings?
What is time?
Name one healthy habit besides exercise that supports brain health.
What is challenge your mind, stay in school and continue learning, protect your head from injury, be smoke-free, control your blood pressure, manage diabetes, eat right, maintain a healthy weight, and sleep well?
This popular toy was spun around your waist and became a nationwide craze in the 1950s.
What is a hula hoop?
The three primary fitness areas targeted by Fit & Fall Proof® are strength, mobility, and this third component.
What is balance?
This song by Bill Withers reminds us that social connection is important because we all need somebody occasionally.
What is Lean on Me?
This has keys but can't open a door.
What is a piano?
This is not a normal part of aging and affects memory, thinking, and daily functioning.
What is dementia?
This fitness pioneer juiced vegetables, preached exercise, and famously did pushups well into old age.
Who is Jack LaLanne?
Participants should walk at this pace during the Timed Up and Go assessment.
What is their normal walking pace?
This Chubby Checker dance craze got millions of Americans moving in the early 1960s.
What is The Twist?
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in a thousand years?
What is the letter M?
This sense is important to have checked regularly because untreated loss has been linked to cognitive decline.
What is hearing?
Introduced in 1960, this toy let kids create pictures by turning two knobs that moved a drawing stylus across a gray screen.
What is the etch a sketch?
When an exercise becomes too easy, leaders should consider doing this.
What is progressing the exercise?
This Village People hit includes actions that could almost count as an exercise routine.
What is YMCA?
What never asks questions but is often answered?
What is a doorbell?
This simple habit helps prevent dizziness, confusion, constipation, and headaches as we age.
What is staying hydrated?
Before streaming and DVDs someone might have told you to "be kind, rewind," before returning these?
What are VHS tapes?
If a participant cannot perform an exercise safely as designed, leaders should do this.
What is modify the exercise?
Freddie Mercury from Queen sings, "Another one gone, and another one gone..." in this hit song whose title is the opposite of what we want for healthy aging.
What is Another One Bites the Dust?
Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not.
What is a ton?
Managing this condition is one of the most important ways to reduce the risk of stroke and dementia.
What is high blood pressure?
Released in 1982, this iconic actress's "Workout" VHS tape sold millions of copies and practically invented the home exercise video industry.
Who is Jane Fonda?
This type of slow, deliberate stretching where you hold a position to safely increase flexibility is used during the cool-down to safely increase range of motion without bouncing.
What is static stretching?