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Show Sunday, April 27, 1997 THE DAILY HERALD, Provo, Utah By SEAN JAMESON Knight-Ridd- er "It's amazing how much you can do in a chair," said Faulkner, whose mother takes the class. Even people in wheelchairs can participate and get benefits from the program, which emphasizes flexibility and range ofmotion and is set to music. "Nobody's going to get hurt. It's very safe, but it's very thorough," Faulkner said. Menscer agrees. Activities like chair aerobics are OK for just about everybody, she said. Water exercise is also an excellent choice for seniors since the water shields joints from pounding and provides resistance for the muscles. Walking and stationary bikes can be a little tougher on joints, but also are good choices for many seniors. Madeline Hall is leading Smith and 13 other women through the YWCA's hour-lon- g "Moderate Movement" water exercise class. "Squeeze your abdominal muscles," Hall tells the class. "If that doesn't mean anything to you, suck in your gut!" Hall, an instructor at the Y for 18 years, has the class do leg lifts atthe side of the pool. And arm curls with floats that look like barbells. And the "secretary's walk" "like you're in a chair with wheels and you're pushing it around." And walks across the width of the pool. Most of the regulars in Hall's" class are women, though .men are welcome and a few take part. Hall figures the participants are anywhere from their late 50s to their 90s. "All right, let's pick up that speed a little bit," she tells exercisers whose energy is flagging toward the end of class. Smith started attending "Moderate Movement" in March on her doctor's recommendation. "It just makes you feel so good," she says after class. "Most of us (seniors) can do pretty well in the water." Smith likes the class enough that she recruited a friend, Myrtle Stover, to come with her. Mulkey has a decade on Smith but is no less active. When she's not in Faulkner's chair aerobics class, she's gardening. The class gives her a chance to get out and socialize, and she likes Faulkner's easy-goin- g style. "I like the way Jan teaches," she said. Newspapers CHARLOTTE, N.C. The hips and knees she was born with Are long gone. Margaret Smith, 83, hashad all four of the joints replaced since 1985. But at Charlotte's YWCA, you pan find her squatting, kicking and -joggingalong with others old "enough to remember the first decades of this century.She does it in the Y's pool, where buoyancy 'gives seniors the opportunity 1 tOstretch and work muscles that can't be safely worked on land. " Just because the candles on the birthday cake are plentiful enough 'to' heatup a small room doesn't ''rnean you can't continue to exeor start exercising. rcise Powell Majors, 90, rides a bike at the Central YMCA. . Most days,he also walks with his ''wife, Dot, 88. '' June Mulkey, 94, enjoys chair. Aerobics three times a week at Hawthorne Lane Methodist Church in Charlotte. And there's a who regularly participates in the same YWCA waterv exercise class that Smith attends. "We encourage patients to be as , active as they can be," said Dr. Dariyne Menscer, a Charlotte geriatrician who practices at Carolinas Medical Center. "That doesn't stop at any particular age. ... By no means is old age asentence to sit in a rocker on the front porch." Mulkey, who is up and down the stairs of her second-floo- r Charlotte apartment every day, says she's 'been exercising as long as she can temember. She started swimming It the YMCA 30 or 40 years ago. :But, "I don't do it anymore because it's too much trouble" meaning she doesn't like to fuss with her hair after swimming, a, "I see other people in these rest Jiomes and nursing homes and the :pnlytime they get up is to walk to the elevator," Mulkey said. "I'm 10 years older than they are, and I do more than they do.' is a member of Mulkey Hawthorne Lane Methodist. But like many exerciseprograms -- onerea at cnurcnes, tne class is lopen to anyone. Jan Faulkner, who ! has led chair aerobics programs for 1 1 years, otters the class Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings. ( "She lets you go kind of to your own pace. You can stop, and she doesn't think anything about it." Mulkey's advice to people her age thinking about starting exercise: "They'd have to start out easy. They might couldn't go the whole hour." Majors started swimming when the Central YMCA was built on Morehead Street decades ago. The Y was just a short walk from the Lance snack-foo- d plant on South Boulevard where Powell worked. The Lance plant is long gone, the building converted to condominiums, but Powell still is a Y regular. He gave up swimming when the chlorine started bothering him, but Powell still rides 30 minutes on a stationary bike as often as he can. "I'll average four days a week, maybe five, on the bike," he said. "I got into a rut, frankly, and it's a good rut." His goal from exercise? "I want to get my driver's license renewed when I'm 100." But be aware of medical condition Older people starting or continuing an exercise program need to be aware of but should not be their medical condistopped by tions. Older people who are being treated for heart, lung or problems should talk with their doctors before starting to exercise, said Dr. Dariyne Menscer, a Charlotte geriatrician. "Begin slow and report anysymp-tom- s that you have to a doctor," she said. If you get short of breath, sit down and rest. Short-live- d chest pain should be reported to your doctor. If you have chest pain that doesn't go away, call your doctor immediately. Seniors', blood pressure may fluctuate more than that of younger people, so they may need to move slowly from standing to sitting to lying. And seniors with deteriorating hearing or vision need to be mindful of traffic if they get their exercise outdoors. 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