Independence for Life: The Complete Guide to Building Strength, Improving Flexibility and Regaining Mobility Beyond 50 - Softcover

Harlow, Will

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1401998542 ISBN 13: 9781401998547

Publisher: Hay House UK Ltd, 2026

Synopsis

Losing muscle, flexibility and mobility after 50 is not inevitable! This book guides you through creating a personalized, fully guided plan for building strength, balance, flexibility, and bone density.

Physiotherapist and over-50s health specialist Will Harlow has helped millions regain strength and confidence through his YouTube channel. Now, in this comprehensive guide, he shares easy-to-follow, science-backed strategies to restore mobility and prevent further decline.

This book gives you the tools to build a sustainable plan and move with greater ease, whatever your current fitness level. Readers are guided through a self-assessment and suggested exercises (all under 20 minutes) which are highly adaptable--the reader chooses how many exercises to do, how often, and when.

Each chapter focuses on a key area of mobility, including common causes of decline, simple tools to evaluate and track your progress, science-backed exercises to rebuild strength and flexibility, and real-life stories from Will's clinic to inspire and motivate. You'll learn how to:

• Build muscle strength for lifelong independence
• Reclaim mobility and move with confidence
• Restore balance to prevent falls
• Maximize bone health to stay resilient
• Ease arthritis pain and reduce stiffness
• Resolve back pain to improve posture
• Release shoulder stiffness and increase flexibility
• Enhance hip mobility for better range of motion
• Strengthen your knees to stay active
• Stabilize your ankles for improved balance

About this title

About the Author

Will Harlow is a physiotherapist with a mission to help over‐50s stay mobile, healthy, and active without the use of pain pills or surgery. He is the creator of the popular and rapidly growing YouTube channel @HT-Physio, which has more than 1.3 million subscribers. He also runs a private physiotherapy practice in Surrey, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hay House UK Ltd
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1401998542
• ISBN 13: 9781401998547
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 257