Welcome to The Fitness Muse blog! I plan to share with you here what I learn about mind and body as I enter my tenth year as an Adaptive Fitness instructor. Lesson Number One, proven to me time and again by observing how my students successfully manage the aging process: Keep moving, and keep learning!
With that in mind, at the end of February I entered a program through Cal State Fullerton to become a certified FallProof instructor. FallProof is a comprehensive balance and mobility training program for older adults that includes assessments and analysis of each student's balance impairments, and the tools to create individual exercise progressions in a group setting. As an instructor keenly interested in helping prevent falls among the population I teach, I have always focused on the balance skills I am most familiar with and best equipped to teach: strength and flexibility. But I always sensed I was missing key components of the balance equation. FallProof is a revelation! It adds center-of-gravity control training, multi-sensory training, postural strategy training, and gait pattern enhancement and variation training. More about those strategies as I continue to wrap my head around all the new information coming in.
With that in mind, at the end of February I entered a program through Cal State Fullerton to become a certified FallProof instructor. FallProof is a comprehensive balance and mobility training program for older adults that includes assessments and analysis of each student's balance impairments, and the tools to create individual exercise progressions in a group setting. As an instructor keenly interested in helping prevent falls among the population I teach, I have always focused on the balance skills I am most familiar with and best equipped to teach: strength and flexibility. But I always sensed I was missing key components of the balance equation. FallProof is a revelation! It adds center-of-gravity control training, multi-sensory training, postural strategy training, and gait pattern enhancement and variation training. More about those strategies as I continue to wrap my head around all the new information coming in.
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