Enhance®Fitness, is a low-cost, evidence-based group exercise and falls prevention program. Enhance Fitness helps older adults at all levels of fitness become more active, energized, and empowered to sustain independent lives.
This fun hour-long class focuses on dynamic cardiovascular exercise, strength training, balance, and flexibility. Resulting in older adults maintaining health and function as they age.
Evidence-Based Results:
- Improve Physical Function
- Decrease depression
- Protect against Falls and Fall injury
- Provide a social benefit
- Promote a physically active lifestyle
- Reduce medical care utilization costs
- Decrease Unplanned hospitalizations
- Decrease mortality rate
Class Experience:
- A certified instructor
- A 5-minute warm-up to get the blood flowing to the muscles
- A 20-minute aerobic workout that gets participants moving
- A 5-minute cool-down
- A 20-minute strength training workout with soft cuff weights on the arms and legs (0 up to 20 pounds)
- A 10-minute stretching workout to keep the muscles flexible
- Dynamic and static balance exercises throughout the class
- Lots of opportunities for participants to make new friends and acquaintances
- Each class may include up to 25 participants, from the frail to the more fit adult.
A certified instructor, who has completed the EnhanceFitness training, will safely lead the class through an hour of exercises at a pace that’s right for the participants.
Fitness checks are completed at the time of enrollment, again at 4 months, and then as often as needed. By participating in fitness checks Participants’ can track their personal progress
Over 99% of participants say they would recommend EnhanceFitness to a friend.
“The women & men in the group are a great support system to keep me motivated to continue to exercise. EnhanceFitness has become a necessary element in my life”. – EnhanceFitness Participant