Safe Antiaging Full-Body In-Bed Gym and FES for Lazy Persons: Home In-Bed Exercises for Fighting Muscle Weakness in Advanced Age

Elderly persons spend only a small amount of time for daily physical activity, contributing to limit their independence up to force them to bed and to hospitalization. Progressive muscle contractile impairments, including advanced aging-related muscle power decline, need permanent management. Inspired by the proven capability to recover skeletal muscle contractility and strength by home-based functional electrical stimulation and guided by common sense, we suggest a short (15–20 min) daily routine of 12 easy-to-perform physical exercises that may be performed in bed (full-body in-bed gym). Continued regularly, full-body in-bed gym may help to maintain the independence of frail older people and to reduce the risk of serious consequences of accidental falls.