exercise

Bay seniors with a healthy sense of aggression will enjoy letting out their inner NRA at DartOps in San Bruno’s Tanforan Mall. It’s like a clean version of Paintball. You airblast soft darts at targets or each other in games like Capture the Flag and Team Death March. Starts at $5 per 30-minute game. Intended […]

Bay seniors curious to try a truly sexy exercise would do well to hoof it to “Dancing on the Square” in Redwood City this coming Tuesday. It’s Tango night from 6-8. This Argentine evening should be the perfect pace for slow, sinuously moving seniors. Free. No partner required.

Bay geezers who thought they’d heard everything when it comes to exercising should check out Vasper Fitness in the NASA Research Park at Moffett Field in Sunnyvale. This is one gym where you never break a sweat because you are lying on a cold compression pad, wearing a cooling helmet, with cold copper pedals at […]

Aching and sore Bay seniors has the time come to think about stepping off the tennis court, dismounting from your road bike, mothballing your running shoes and joining the hundreds of millions of Chinese doing t’ai ch’i? Though it’s considered a martial art, for non-combative geezers it’s more of a relaxation technique. It couldn’t hurt […]

Bay seniors who imagined the only way they’d get into a rocking chair would be at gunpoint, might adjust their thinking when they get a look at the new models now available. Even the late but  currently uber hip Charles Eames designed one.They don’t replace actual exercise but the kinesthetic effects have convinced some people they are […]

If Bay seniors have any doubts that yoga has gone mainstream, you are encouraged to check out the massive Yoga Journal Conference January 12-16 at the Hyatt Regency in SF. There are dozens of classes to which the public is invited including curious events like Relaxing Tibetan Singing Bowls and Therapeutic Flying Sessions. Day passes […]

There is not a rocking chair in sight in the new documentary, “Autumn Gold”, which is struggling to make its way to local movie screens. Its subject is the World Masters Track & Field Championship. From the trailer the cast of aging athletes, all 80>, manage to be inspiring, awesome and annoying. It’s the kind of movie […]

Why practice your yoga is an overcrowded, overheated, overly pungent studio? The Bay Area offers classes where you can take your mat out of doors to some of our most staggeringly scenic settings. Google and you’ll find classes from Ocean Beach to Santa Cruz. And if you feel like combining yoga with cardio there are […]