This is the blog presentation of Richard Battista of Quincy, Massachusetts, about seniors staying healthy through physical activity such as the fitness classes offered at the YMCA and other fitness centers. Richard Battista is a life coach and healthy living expert. He enjoys sharing health tips and tricks with various audiences.

1. Senior Healthy Living
By Richard Battista, Quincy

2. The Stateline Family YMCA offers a variety of senior
fitness classes, for a variety of fitness levels. Their
Senior Fit class accommodates more active seniors,
requiring a fair share of standing during the various
exercises.

3. Alternatively, the Silver Sneakers class is tailored to
those seniors that wish to stay active, yet struggle to
maintain overt exercises for extended periods of time;
most or all of the exercises are completed from within a
chair.

4. The YMCA has such a large senior population in its
membership, they have decided to dedicate October to
celebrating said senior members, as they host Senior
Appreciation Month.

5. During the event, the staff will work with seniors to
develop healthy lifestyles. In the process, the
employees will use social media to promote their
message of senior fitness and honor several of their
active members.

6. According to an article recently completed by Beloit
Daily News, Nancy Johnson instructs one such class
that consists of some of the YMCA’s regular senior
members. Johnson is a fighter in her own right, having
survived breast cancer, which has now been in
remission for eleven years.

7. In addition to this, Johnson is a recipient of open-heart
surgery. The combination of these two experiences
equips Johnson perfectly as the instructor of the class.
Her motto, which results directly from her struggles, is
to “never sit down.” To Johnson, this motto is the best
means of living a healthy lifestyle and, as a result, she
applies this belief to every single class she instructs
with her seniors.

8. The class, therefore, relies on quite a bit of movement.
The instructional period starts with some low-key
aerobics walking, before carrying on to more intensive
practices, such as weight training, balance exercises,
stretching, jumping jacks and other various practices in
leg work.

9. Through her dedication, Johnson has helped the class
grow significantly; in the ten years she has been
teaching it, the class has grown from eight participants
to over forty students, all by way of word of mouth.