Osteoporosis: Exercise Impacts Your Bone Health

Osteoporosis is known as a silent disease, often going unnoticed until bone or vertebrae fractures occur. Osteoporosis affects about 54 million Americans with Non-Hispanic White and Asian American women making up the bulk of that number. While Osteoporosis affects women primarily, it isn’t uncommon among men with 1 in 3 women and 1 in 5 men over the age of 50 suffering a broken bone due to bone density losses. 

We welcome Hartmut Broring back for an informative and timely lecture exploring the connections between exercise and bone density. Hartmut will discuss and then lead us in various exercises, while highlighting their possible benefits in the prevention and treatment of Osteoporosis.  

Hartmut Broring, M.S. is a German born trainer and therapist working in the San Francisco Bay Area. His first introduction to life in the United States came as an intern in 1992 working for the San Francisco Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired. He returned in 1996 as a permanent resident after finishing his master’s degree in Physiotherapy (Internal Medicine and Orthopedics) at the German Sports University of Cologne in 1995 and founded Back In Form. Back In Form’s team of 10 trainers provide fitness training and therapeutic exercises to those 70-plus and/or those managing chronic illness. 

In 2001 Hartmut was recognized by IDEA (a leading association of fitness professionals) as a Master Fitness Trainer, the highest level of recognition for Personal Trainers. For over 20 years Hartmut has inspired his clients to adopt a healthy lifestyle through addressing their fitness as well as post rehab needs.