Chair Based Exercise

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Chair Based Exercise - for Fitness Instructor Courses|Leeds

For Fitness Instructors (2 day course including assessment)
This is a CYQ qualification and its aim is to teach personal trainers and fitness instructors a wide range of exercises that encourage frailer, older people to achieve optimum personal fitness in their later years. The exercises will help to maintain strength and independence and help to reduce falls and injuries that affect everyday function and confidence. The skills and knowledge in this course are research based and will enable you to lead and teach a wide range of exercises.

For Health & Social Care Assistants (4 day course including assessment)
This course has been specifically designed for health care practitioners and it is certified by Central YMCA Qualifications. The course teaches you how to structure a class for frailer older people and teaches you 17 evidence based exercises. The exercises are designed to help achieve optimal personal fitness, maintain strength, avoid falls and avoid loss of confidence. The research based exercises within this course will help to maintain independence and function and improve quality of life in later years. The course is taught by our highly skilled team of tutors who are specialists in this field of work.

Bespoke training can be brought to you so that it allows you to have your staff trained at your convenience.

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Is this the course for you?

Fitness Instructors

This course is ideal if you want to specialise and work with older adults and it will give you the skills to teach chair based exercise in a studio class, community centres and nursing homes. It will also give you a vast amount of knowledge to enable you to offer adaptations to clients or members of your class who have physical limitations. The course covers the ageing process and the effects on bones, joints, heart, lungs and nervous system along with conditions associated with ageing which include osteoporosis, arthritis, stroke and Parkinson's disease and their implications for exercise are discussed.

It will give you the knowledge and confidence to teach a range of 17 chair-based exercises aimed at promoting mobility and increasing strength to help aid everyday function of the frailer adult.

Health & Social Care Assistants

This course is ideal if you are currently working with older adults and wish to help them maintain their everyday function and mobility. Our tutors are experienced in working with health professionals and will guide and mentor you to help gain the skills to teach chair based exercise in a community centre, nursing home or similar environment. It is fun and enjoyable and will give you the confidence to help promote mobility and function in frailer older adults.

Benefits of Course:

The exercises contained within this module will also be helpful if you are teaching a mainstream Older Adult class as it will give you a wide range of seated adaptations for clients who present with a wide range of conditions e.g. osteoporosis.

Research has shown that chair based exercises can see gains in:

Strength & Power
Confidence
Endurance
Improved functional ability
Flexibility
Improved concentration, memory and sleep
Decrease in joint pain and discomfort

Prerequisites for this course:

Fitness Instructors:

It is recommended that students have been teaching for at least 3 months
Provide evidence of NVQ Level 2 Certification

Health & Social Care Assistants
Currently working in one of the following sectors:

Social care/health care support
Sheltered housing
Physiotherapy and occupational therapy assistants
Activity coordinators
Volunteer workers
Community based programme for the elderly

Course assessment format:

Assessment will take place on the last day of the course
Practical assessment based on the prescribed chair-based exercises (plan, teach and evaluate)
Complete CYQ Worksheets