Description
Back by popular demand! Strength, flexibility, balance, and endurance are the four types of exercise identified as critical for aging well by the National Council on Aging’s Go4Life®. Learn how to strengthen muscles, keep your joints active and lubricated, improve balance, and increase flexibility and endurance. Begin with seated full-body joint warmups; then, do a variety of seated strength, endurance, and flexibility exercises; finally, practice standing balance exercises using a chair for support. Become familiar with weights, resistance bands, and balls. All exercise equipment used in class is provided. Limited enrollment.
Ilene Dunn is a certified personal trainer, specializing in senior fitness and the maintenance of strength, balance, and an active lifestyle. She is a senior trainer with the Tai Chi for Health Institute and a Matter of Balance master trainer. She is also trained in, or certified to teach, Tai Ji Quan: Moving for Better Balance®, Silver Sneakers® programs, Enhance®Fitness, and On the Move®.