Every BODY Can Exercise: Senior Edition

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About the Actor

Jeanette DePatie (A.K.A. The Fat Chick) is a plus-sized, certified fitness instructor and personal trainer author, producer and professional speaker who has helped thousands of people who haven t worked out in a while (or ever) learn to love their bodies and love exercise again. She is author of the best-selling book and DVD, The Fat Chick Works Out! and creator of EveryBODYCanExercise.com. She is also co-creator of the forum at fitfatties.com with Ragen Chastain and at hotflashmob.com with Dr. Eve Agee.
Ms. DePatie has held fitness certifications from the YMCA, ACE and AFAA. Jeanette serves as a role model and an inspiration for beginning exercisers of all ages, sizes, shapes and abilities. Ms. DePatie has served as a spokeswoman for The National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance and The Association for Size Diversity and Health where she commonly speaks on the topic of Health at Every Size®. She has been interviewed many times on television, radio and in print by Katie Couric, NPR, Dr. Drew, Hallmark s Home and Family, Al Jazeera America, CTV (Canada), Huffington Post Live, Women s Health, Scholastic Magazine, The New York Times, and The Wall St. Journal.

Product Description

Welcome to EveryBODY Can Exercise: Senior Edition, a safe, easy and fun workout specially designed for those rich in years and experience. Designed and led by plus-sized, certified fitness instructor Jeanette DePatie (AKA The Fat Chick) with simple choreography you can do standing or sitting with over 15 songs you can mix and match, this DVD is a super fun way for everyBODY to work out.

Review

I have been exercising with Jeanette for over two years now and I like it very much. This is the first time I ve ever had a regular exercise program. Sometimes the routines are hard at first, but Jeanette is so encouraging that I just give it a try. A lot of times, there s a routine and I think it s impossible. But I stick with it, and in a little while I m dancing along with the rest. I have a few limitations, especially with my arm, but Jeanette shows me how to modify stuff and I just do it my way. –Church of the Foothills, Duarte CA

In the past, I had some health problems. I ve faced diabetes and high blood pressure and have even suffered a minor stroke. My doctors have always encouraged me to exercise, but I was never able to stick with it until Jeanette s class. I used to dance all the time in my younger days. I was even a majorette! But I hadn t danced in years until I found this class. It is exciting and fun. And most of the time, I really look forward to it. But even when I don t feel like going, I go anyways. And once I get in there, and the music gets going, I always end up feeling better. This class has helped me in so many ways. My blood pressure is much lower and my diabetes is totally under control. But what s most important is the new outlook I now have on my life. Instead of feeling handicapped by my health problems, I now feel like I m in control of my life. Jeanette always encourages me to work at my own pace, so I really feel like I can do it. I have more energy. I m not so self-conscious any more. I m more confident. This class has helped me to feel like I can do anything! –Irwindale Senior Center, Iwindale CA

I just LOVE this class! Jeanette makes it interesting and fun, and that makes me want to stick with it. I ve tried some of those other women s only exercise programs, you know the ones in the strip malls? Those classes were boring. They were always the same and they didn t really challenge me. After two years of doing those programs I didn t feel any different. But with Jeanette s class, I felt progress from the very beginning. I work out pretty hard. But the music is so great and the dancing is so much fun, I hardly noticed what a great workout I was getting. I feel stronger and better now. And the class has really helped me deal with the onset of arthritis and I hurt a lot less. I advise you to come and take this class. I put my life on it. I look forward to it every week. You just need to try it for yourself. –Church of the Foothills, Duarte CA

About the Director

BARBARA MULTER-WELLIN has produced and written documentaries and nonfiction shows and series for HBO, Showtime, Lifetime, TLC, KCET, The Discovery Channel, UPN. Lifetime, Fit-TV, TBS and HGTV. She won a 2013 LA Area Emmy for her work on the television series and web series, “Your Turn to Care” that was also the winner of a 2013 Gracie Award. Barbara has produced and written two films for the acclaimed PBS documentary series, Independent Lens. Taking the Heat The First Women Firefighters of New York City, a documentary narrated by Susan Sarandon, is about the 20-year struggle to bring women into the New York Fire Department, an institution traditionally hostile to change rocked by the overwhelming trauma and loss of September 11th. The second film, Paul Conrad: Drawing Fire, narrated by Tom Brokaw, tracks the career of three-ti