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Exercise; It's Your "Declaration of Independence"
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Older adults can expect to experience significant benefits from regular physical activity and exercise. We have extensive experience in senior and geriatric exercise program design that meet your health, function and physical fitness level.
With our effective training older adults are able to optimize function, maximize fitness and wellness, and avoid, postpone or even reverse the declines in physical function associated with aging.
u In-home private exercise training
u Functional fitness training
u Senior Fitness and Sport Performance
u Group Fitness programs
u Senior fitness testing
uFall Risk Assessment
u Balance testing
u OsteoBall™ training for bone health and muscle strengthening
Whether your goal is to maximize fitness level, improve physical function for enhanced daily living, reduce pain, improve balance, enhance sport performance, we provide exceptional private training to seniors in the privacy of their home or semi-private locations. Our health fitness specialist Jacqueline has extensive senior and geriatric exercise experience and provides a series of very succesful senior group fitness programs and senior fitness mini seminars in the Beaverton area. We have the experience and the expertise and follow national guidelines in Older Adult Exercise.
Individual private fitness and functional training programs are conveniently offered at the client's home (including clients residing in assisted living, independent living and foster homes), we also offer group programs to independent and assisted living communities.
_Improve and extend independence, enhance longevity, regain and maintain strength, improve muscle power, health, energy, vitality, balance, strong bones and prevent falls with a progressive program integrating exercises using the OsteoBall, resistive bands, ankle weight, hand weights to strength machines.
_Sport specific training for ageless athletes, body re-ruilding to maximize fitness, maintain or regain your muscles, gain strength and power so that you can excel in your favorite sport or fitness activity, reducing the risk of injury, improve performance as well as your health.
_Fall Prevention and Balance Training: Essential Balance & Mobility exercise program is available to individuals as well as group training. Exercises are based on extensive research and provide results. The program improves strength, enhances static and dynamic balance, improved stability and flexibility, enhanced joint range of motion. Participants reduce their risk of falling and injury.
_Bone health and muscle strengthening exercises are often integrated with the use of the OsteoBall™, a combination of isometric and isotonic training. Click here for brochure
_Reduce healthcare cost: inactivity after an illness or hospital stay dramatically reduces strength and endurance placing you at a higher risk for falling and injuries related to falling. The right exercise program performed regular and consistent can prevent or reduce the cost of personal care or assisted living. Exercise performed regular and consistently is most effective in prevention and control of chronic and infectious disease.
_Manage a chronic illness: Including diabetes blood glucose management, improving cholesterol levels, triclicerides, high blood pressure, osteoporosis type I and type II, etc. We follow your health care provider's recommendations and provide a safe and effective training experience to help manage and treat the disease.
_Weight Loss: Carying extra body weight increases risk for developing chronic illness and the risk of falling. A 5 to 10 percent weight loss can dramatically improve your health and quality of life.
_Post rehabilitiation: following treatment or rehabilitation for clinically documented chronic disease, musculoskeletal injury and/or disability, we work with your physical therapist and/or continue physical therapist recommended exercise in combination with exercise that help you improve overall health and wellness.
_ Assisted living and adult foster home: we work with seniors in assisted living and foster homes helping them retain their level of functioning and slowing down the rate of physical decline. We provide progress notes to healthcare providers" to track changes over time.
_Working with caregivers: We provide weekly exercise to seniors living at home that may receive full-time care. Exercise allows older adult more ease in daily living activities with improved management of a chronic condition, regaining strength after illness or injury, or as part of the overall treatment plan.
_Fitness consulting and coaching: We provide a complete fitness program analysis and determine the effectiveness of your current exercise program. We offer fitness and functional fitness assessments and design a personal exercise program that meets your fitness level, goal and/or medical condition(s), that you can perform independently at home, fitness center of your choice or with our personal training services.
_Senior Fitness Testing: Your current fitness level is like a vital sign just like heart rate and blood pressure. The test shows your strength and weakness and provides data for the fitness professional to appropriately design an exercise program or select a class that meets fitness and lifestyle goals. The senior fitness test is safe and meets scientific standards for reliability and validity and has performance norms for persons ages 60 to 94.
When you want to maintain independence and/or prepare for long-term independence you need to know your current functional fitness level and develop your activity plan accordingly.
_Berg Balance Scale (BBS), represents an individual's ability to perform a series of functional tasks that require balance by similating activities likely to encounter in their daily lives. Appropriate for assessing lower-functioning older adults.
_Fullerton Advanced Balance Scale(FAB), designed to measure changes in multiple dimemsions of balance in higher functioning independent living older adults.
_Fall Risk Assessments, identify risk factors that are within your control and can be eliminated, and risk factors that are beyond your control.
_Residential Senior Living Group Exercise Programs are available. click here for information
Exercise an Screening for You (EASY) click on the link
This EASY screening tool is developed for older individuals, their healthcare providers and exercise professionals to find out if exercise is right for you at this time or if you need to contact your health care provider to provide strategies for tailoring exercise for different health conditions and problems. We will work closely with your doctor when needed to provide optimum benefits.
download this brochure Strength and Power and the Baby Boomer
Click here for a copy of "Your Declaration of Independence"
With increasing chronic illnesses such as heart disease, arthritis, osteoporosis, hip and knee joint replacements, stroke, fall(s), frailty and reduced physically activity, it becomes increasingly more difficult to perform activities that are important to sustain an independent life. For midlife and older adults of all ages and abilities, adopting regular physical activity as part of a healthy lifestyle may extend years of active independent life, reduce or prevent chronic disease and disability, and improve overall quality of life.
Click on the above ACE link for valuable FIT FACTS
