By Lauri Lee
Northside Economic Development Coalition
With 2020 just around the bend, people’s thoughts often head toward how to get in better shape in the new year. The Northside has many fitness center options to fit your need of getting in shape, including options for those with chronic pain or health issues who never thought a fitness center could help manage their circumstances or fit their personality; don’t accept another year in pain without checking into how 2020 could be the year you improved your health and fitness.
Evan Bradbury found help using a personal trainer at Orthdx Natural Fitness at the Northside TownCenter. He had surgery to remove a brain tumor in October 2018. The hospital sent him home with pain pills that not only left him depressed and lethargic, but he also gained a great deal of weight. “I started working with Tim Lee, a personal trainer there,” said Bradbury. “I was only capable of exercising once a week at first, and now have worked up to three times a week. Through weight training, resistance bands, stretching, yoga, and exercises to address my specific issues, I’m recovering greater use of my right hand and right side of my body, and I’ve lost 100 pounds in six months. His knowledge of fitness and the exercise has really helped me progress.”
Tennyson Health and Wellness Center will make you happy that you’re age 55 and that it’s open to the public. This hidden gem is in the Tennyson Senior Living Facility, 1936 Tennyson Lane off Hwy. CV. The staff has expertise and experience working with older adults and fitness, and the facility has everything needed to improve strength, flexibility, coordination and balance or manage arthritis, chronic pain or similar health issues.
The fitness center has a small intimate atmosphere with amenities such as a warm-water therapy/exercise pool; underwater, variable speed treadmill; fitness studio with cardio and strength equipment; personal training; exercise classes; and massage.
Aquatic therapy helps people do things in water that they can’t do on land. Warm water exercise is soothing and encourages the body to move, and the bounciness is easier on joints. It helps improve balance, joint health, strengthen muscles and improve cardiorespiratory fitness.
The warm water therapy treadmill pool is totally accessible because the floor raises to zero depth instead of needing a ramp, stairs or a lift. The water temperature is 91 degrees, the treadmill speed goes up in 1/10th mile increments and underwater cameras help with self-monitoring of gait and foot placement.
Call Lori Devine at 268-5492 or 445-7325 to schedule a tour of the fitness facility and for a free 15 minute session in the therapy pool.