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 # 1 COPD DVD!

Best Breathing Exercises

Functional Fitness COPD

 
 
Ease Joint Pain Now
50% proceeds donated to
Public Broadcasting
 

ARTHRITIS WATER THERAPY KIT  on SALE

 
Award Winning
 

 Functional Fitness ARTHRITIS DVD

 
 
Osteoporosis
 

Functional Fitness BONE BUILDER for Osteoporosis

 
 
Treatment for Diabetes
 

Functional Fitness DIABETES DVD


" Functional Fitness diabetes DVD is an important component to a healthy diabetes program. This is my favorite Diabetes DVD."
Carlos Mercado, MD

 
Airing to 45 million on PBS!

Functional Fitness 1st Series 8 DVDs

 

Better Balance

Ball Exercises Included

Functional Fitness BETTER BALANCE Fitness DVD

 

Brain Power

Improve Your Brain


" A refreshing program that supports relevant current research on the importance of exercise for improved cognitive (brain) functioning."
Dr. Alice Godbey, Ed.D.
Professor, Behavioral & Social Sciences
 
 
Need to lose 50 or More lbs?
Burn Fat with Fat Burning
 

 
AND...
 
Includes guided meditation
and breathing exercises
for weight loss!
 

Yoga for Weight Loss Set

Functional Fitness with Suzanne Andrews®

"Anybody, Any Age, Any Size can do this program." Kim Kovenig, Registered Dietician

 

Fitness Over 40, Fitness over 50, Fitness over 60 and beyond.  Plus Size Friendly.   

Exercise Standing or Exercise Seated. 

 Functional Fitness Gives the Choice to YOU!

 

  

Founder of Functional Fitness on Public Television, Functional Fitness with Suzanne Andrews® airs to over 45 million in the US.  An expert in functional fitness for people over 40 and plus sized people, Suzanne has taught in the US and Canada for over 25 years.

 

Prior to becoming an Occupational Therapy Practitioner (therapy that specializes in improving function) and graduating with honors in 2006, Suzanne taught dance in Canada, worked as a Therapeutic Exercise Specialist with Professional Physical Therapy and as a Fitness Director at the YMCA.  While at the YMCA, she received certifications in:
 

  • Personal Training
  • Group Fitness
  • Water Exercise
  • Sport Yoga


 As a therapy practitioner, she has had ongoing rehabilitation education in:

  • Arthritis
  • Diabetes
  • Copd
  • Osteoporosis Prevention and Treatment
  • Treatment of neck and back
  • Stroke
  • Hip replacement therapy
  • Balance and fall prevention
  • Shoulder rehabilitation

 

Alongside taping her nationwide PBS TV Functional Fitness series, her doctor approved fitness DVD's, distributed through Bayview Entertainment, are sold globally and also available online at all major and minor retailers nationwide.  With her extensive experience, Suzanne Andrews helps you minimize joint pain, increase oxygen capacity, decrease risk of diabetes, increase strength in the upper and lower body, decrease blood pressure and blood sugar levels, increase weight loss and improve heart function. Regardless of your age, prior fitness level or experience, functional fitness's therapeutic designed and doctor approved fitness dvds can supercharge your health. 

As a licensed Occupational Therapy Practitioner and wellness expert, Suzanne Andrews is committed to helping you live a more functional life with medically designed
fitness DVD's that are gentle on your joints, time efficient and Dr. approved.

  
 
Trusted by celebrities since 1986
Left to right: Sally Kirkland, Esther Williams, Mckenzie Phillips, President Clinton
 

Sally Kirkland, Esther Williams, President Clinton


 

Dr. Mache Seibel, MD, reveals 3 reasons Functional Fitness starring Suzanne Andrews® is the best show for people 40 plus and fabulous...
 



You Choose Your Level: Seated or Standing!




Each Functional Fitness DVD demonstrates 3 workout versions of exercise: chair supported exercise, modified standing and more challenging standing.

Having succesfully treated people with a variety of medical conditions, you get expert instruction in each exercise DVD including weight loss, diabetes, arthritis, COPD/Asthma, back and neck pain relief, fall prevention, brain power and more.

Bonus!

All Fitness DVD's come with bonus materials not seen on Suzanne Andrews TV show, which may include tips, doctors answers to frequently asked questions and extra video to help you feel better, live better and function better.

Bring the fun of Functional Fitness into your life and order one of our award winning Dr. recommended Fitness DVD's today to give you a new lease on life!



AWARD WINNING PROGRAMS


Arthritis DVD


                                                                  

 

Functional Fitness with Suzanne Andrews®  Fans Say it Best!  Some of the many letters we receive....

 

 Wonderful that you're going not only national but even international. That way we'll be able to recommend Functional Fitness to friends and family all over the world.
 

Right now, 10 am has become a permanent appointment time for us. Reserved for Suzanne, a dear loving friend. A part of our lives. An unfailing source of energy and encouragement. Sounds exaggerated? But that's exactly the way it is.
Paul and Maj-Britt Piehler, Florida  

 

Yours is the only fitness program that takes away all my pain. My back feels much better since doing your program. Thank you so much!!! Meredith M  

 

 Thank you to everyone whose made Functional Fitness with Suzanne Andrews possible. I do the program every morning and am very grateful. I have spent thousands of dollars trying to get rid of arthritis pain. I've bought lots of exercise equipment and video tapes and nothing worked until I found this program. Thank you so much! Gina P, Deltona, Florida

 

I had a wonderful surprise. Thanks to Functional Fitness starring Suzanne Andrews, my bone density scans came back amazingly improved. So much so my doctor called me to ask what in the world I had done to so dramatically improve my score. I had shown thinning in the lower spine and hip for the past few years. Such improvement prompted a call from my very busy doctor. Normally she does not call but it was such an improvement she called to see what I was doing so she could pass it along. Liz Di Pasqualie  

        

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    Each Fitness DVD and Public Television episode offers you a safe, effective and FUN workout to lose weight, increase your ability to function, get strong, firm up, boost your energy and increase your heart health - all in the comfort of your own home.