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Anne Cushen

Anne's Exercise Plan - Day 5

Resistance Week 1

Resistance Week 1

Resistance Tip of Week

Find your Range of Movement based on your own fitness, choose from the Beginner/ Moderate/ Advanced movements of the resistance exercises to start.

Don’t forget to warm up and cool down and log how you are doing in your exercise diary.

The Six Resistance Exercises are

Lower body – Squats and Lunges
Upper Body– Press up/ Tricep Dip
Core – Plank/ Holding sit up

Beginner/ Moderate/ Advanced

This week it is
1 Set of each exercise x 20 Reps

How-to Videos

Resistance Exercise Tip of the Week 1

Resistance Exercise Tip of the Week 1

Warm up and Cool Down

Warm up and Cool Down

Intro Resistance

Intro Resistance

Holding Sit Up Beginner/ Moderate/ Advanced

Holding Sit Up Beginner/ Moderate/ Advanced

Plank Beginner Moderate Advanced

Plank Beginner Moderate Advanced

Lunges Beginner Moderate Advanced

Lunges Beginner Moderate Advanced

Push up Beginner Moderate Advanced

Push up Beginner Moderate Advanced

Squats Beginner Moderate Advanced

Squats Beginner Moderate Advanced

Tricep Dips Beginner Moderate Advanced

Tricep Dips Beginner Moderate Advanced

Health Related Fitness Test

Health Related Fitness Test

About Anne

Wexford native Anne Cushen, 55, lives in Kiltealy with her husband Thomas, and their two children Sean (23) and Breda (21). Anne is a homemaker, but she has previously worked as a seamstress. Anne is the oldest of 9 children, her Dad is 87 and her mother passed away 10 years ago. Anne lives with osteoarthritis, she has had two hip replacements with the most recent one being in August 2023. She has found the recovery from this operation to be a lot slower than she would like. Anne loves social dancing, but at the moment she has no spring in her step. Anne would like to get herself back and feel like a 55 year old woman.