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. 2018 Sep 12;19:230. doi: 10.1186/s12882-018-1032-0

Table 2.

Interventions examples

Class format Minutes Teachable moments
a. Strong bones and healthy hearts
 Warm-up and rhythmic stretch 10–12 • Pre-Warm-Up: Perceived exertion, breathing and hydration.
• Action Planning: ROM safety through major/minor joints.
• Warm-up: Large to small muscles.
 Circuit Choreography 15 • Selecting the right tubing resistance, benefits of strength work, benefits of cardio work & the plus for both in a circuit format.
• Resistance tubing safety.
• Breathing techniques for strength work.
• Cardio-cognitive benefits
• Benefits of tempo changes through half-time, at music tempo and double- time tempos.
• Benefits of non-dominant side movements.
 Cool-Down 5 • Benefits of lowering the heart rate progressively.
 Core Strengthening 5 • Benefits of concentric, eccentric strength training.
 Flexibility Training 5–8 • Option - Chair transfer technique from chair to floor and from floor to chair.
• Range of Motion versus Range of Movement.
 Relaxation & Future Action Planning 5–10 • Breaking the symptom cycle and self-managing pain, fatigue, frustration, etc.
b. Stability & Balance for Fall Prevention
 Warm-up and rhythmic stretch • Pre-Warm-Up: Perceived exertion, breathing and hydration.
• Action Planning: ROM safety through major/minor joints.
• Warm-up: Large to small muscles.
 Core stability and strength training 5 • The muscle groups which compose the core.
• Benefits of breathing for increasing abdominal chest wall strength and flexibility
 Balance training 5–10 • Agility – changing center of gravity
• Lower body strength
 Stability training 5–10 • Stability in an unstable environment
• How to protect the lower back during extensions
• PNF stretching principles
 Flexibility 10 • Stretch tight muscles for better posture
• Use breathing to deepen stretches
 Relaxation and Action planning 10 • Breaking the symptom cycle to better self-manage pain, fatigue, fear, anger, frustration and physical instabilities