Karl Knopf, EdD, is director of fitness therapy and senior fitness for the International Sports Sciences Association and retired director of adaptive fitness at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, California. He is author of many fitness books including Stretching for 50+ and a board member of Sit and Be Fit, a nonprofit organization dedicated to healthy aging.
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