Senior Exercise Classes
Salt Lake City
About our Senior Exercise Classes
Most gyms and rec centers offer group exercise classes.
Everybody loves classes, don’t they?
Here’s how most exercise classes are structured:
- One instructor with minimal expertise in dealing with the aging adult
- The sky’s the limit with how many people can attend. You can hide (for better or worse) in the faceless crowd.
- Everyone does the same thing, because everyone needs exactly the same thing.
- If you’re lucky you might be given a modification, but no guarantee that you are doing it correctly.
- Each class is different, which makes learning form and tracking progress almost impossible.
- You work out at the intensity you are told to do, or you try to keep up, whether it’s right or not.
- Socialization with others.
The Leverage Fitness Exercise Class Difference
There’s a better way to help our clients reach their goals safely and efficiently.
- All our coaches have extensive training and knowledge about the human body, especially the changes that happen as you age!
- Our classes are capped at a maximum of 3 people, so you’ll never get lost in a crowd.
- Each person in the class gets direct one-on-one time with the coach to ensure the correct form, and answer questions.
- Because our coaches are by your side, they help you gauge the intensity and work together to ensure you are at the appropriate intensity.
- We believe that one size fits precisely one. Each client has a unique exercise prescription, so while you’re exercising with others, you are only doing the things you need at that time. The others will be following their own prescription.
- The smaller groups mean the others in the group become more than just a name and face you recognize; they become like family.
The Benefits of Upgrading Senior Exercise Classes
We aren’t trying to change things just for the sake of change or just to be different. We’ve found distinct advantages of this change that we invite you to experience for yourself.
Benefits of our group fitness classes:
- Improved form-you have several weeks to learn the movements.
- Better results to combat the aging process. Your prescription is structured, not ad hoc, so your results aren’t left to chance.
- Safer way to exercise.
- Cost effective compared with personal training.
- More meaningful connections with others.
- Customized and built just for you.
- Experts in all ailments older adults deal with, working on your behalf.
How is the class structured?
Each client has a unique exercise prescription designed to help them achieve at least the minimum reccommendations for physical activity by the ACSM. Each prescription will have a blend of:
- Mobility/Flexibility
- Strength training real movements
- Aerobic conditioning, usually with circuits or HIITs (high-intensity interval training)
- Neuromotor elements (exercises to challenge balance, proprioception, gait, agility, dual-tasking)
Why choose Leverage Fitness?
- Experts in aging, injuries, & health conditions
- Customized exercise prescriptions for your exact needs at this exact time
- National fitness and personal training leaders
- Close to everything in the Salt Lake valley
- Reasonable prices
- Work out with your peers
- Finally a place where you can feel comfortable
We offer semi-private and 1:1 personal training
View our class schedule here.
We limit our classes to 3 people to ensure everyone gets plenty of attention and direction and that no one gets hurt or can hide in the crowd. We’ve also found this to be the ideal size to build friendships and community.
Since our classes are really semi-private training, you don’t have to worry about finding a class that is ‘at your level’, or find other people similar to your level. We welcome and work with all fitness abilities at any hour we’re open.
Some programs that are commonly included into our fitness classes are:
Balance & Fall Prevention
Improve your functional balance training and reduce your risk of falls.
Pre- and Post-Rehab
Whatever your health condition, we work with and around your limitations to create a more resilient body.
Brain Training & Cognitive Agility
Work on our memory, reaction time, executive functioning, and attention while doing physical tasks.
Sports Performance
Get the most out of your ski days or any other sport. Improve your activities, despite your age! Learn how adding in sports strength and conditioning can reduce injuries and help you perform better!