Senior Fitness Best Practice Programs
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The document promotes several creative fitness and wellness programs for residents: 1. The Wellness Challenge encourages residents and employees to get healthy in the new year through competitive team-based activities. 2. An Olympics-themed event amps up traditional Olympic games like frisbee discus, water balloon shot put, and synchronized swimming to engage residents. 3. Pairing a food event with a fitness class saw increased participation in the normally low-attendance class by capitalizing on residents' interest in dining. 4. A brain fitness class was launched in response to resident requests and has become a successful regular offering after initial challenges. 5. Revamping wellness lectures through novel topics and
Senior Fitness Best Practice Programs
- 1. Creative fitness and wellness programs keep your residents coming back for more. The National Institute for Fitness and Sport Contact Bethany Garrity for more information.
- 2. #1 The Wellness Challenge Calling all residents AND employees! Get the New Year off to a healthy start for your entire community with The Wellness Challenge. Watch this webinar to find out why residents and employees alike ask for the program year after year.
- 3. #2 An Olympics Do-Over Frisbee discuss, water balloon shot- put, and synchronized swimming. If these aren't staples in your Olympics- themed programming, you'll want to take a look at our blog series on how to amp up the same old Olympics event on your calendar.
- 4. #3 Dining + Fitness Its no secret that food brings residents out of their homes. But in this example, we paired a food event with a fitness service and saw a big participation increase in a traditionally low-attendance group fitness class. Watch this webinar to find out more.
- 5. #4 Brain Fitness In response to repeated requests, we launched a brain fitness class on our traditional group fitness calendar. Check out this blog to learn about the path we took to get to the successful offering we're running now.
- 6. #5 Wellness Lecture Series Tired of low attendance in your lectures? Find out how we took ordinary to extraordinary in this "Wellness Lectures Done Right" webinar.