Wellness and Fitness Membership in Tennessee
A monthly membership to our wellness classes: aerobics, strengthening, balance and flexibility. Built for older adults who want to keep what they worked to get back.
What is the wellness membership?
Here is the part nobody warns you about. You finish therapy walking better than you have in two years, you go home proud of it, and eleven months later you are back in the same chair with the same complaint. Nothing went wrong. Strength is rented, not owned, and it quietly leaves when nothing is asking for it. The wellness membership exists so nothing has to be given back. In our four phase model of Pain, Prime, Perform and Prevent, this is Prevent, and it is the phase most people skip.
The membership is monthly and it covers our wellness classes: aerobics, strengthening, balance and flexibility. It is not physical therapy and it is not billed as therapy, so there is no evaluation to schedule and no plan of care to finish. It is a standing reason to show up. A yearly option is available as well, and the office can explain both when you call. If you would rather work with a therapist one on one instead of in a class, that is personal training.
Who joins the classes.
Mostly people over 65 who are done being told to just stay active without anybody saying how, where, or with whom.
Recently discharged from therapy
You worked hard for what you got back and you would like to keep it. Classes give the week a fixed point, so the home program does not slowly become the thing you meant to do yesterday.
Not injured, just losing ground
Nothing hurts enough to call a doctor about, but the stairs take longer and the grocery bags feel heavier than they did. A regular class is the cheapest correction available before that becomes a real limitation.
Uneasy in a regular gym
Loud music, machines set for someone half your age, and nobody watching to see whether you are steady. These classes are run for older adults, at a pace built around older bodies.
What the classes cover.
Four kinds of work, and every one of them earns its place in a week. Wear something you can move in and shoes you would walk a block in.
Aerobics
Steady, low fuss conditioning that gets your heart and lungs working without leaving you wrecked for the rest of the day. This is the piece that decides whether a walk to the mailbox or across a parking lot feels like anything at all.
Strengthening
Loaded work for the legs, hips and trunk, which are the muscles that get you off a low chair and up a flight of stairs. Strength is the one quality that keeps giving ground unless something in the week is asking for it.
Balance and flexibility
Practice at the edges: turning, reaching, stepping over something, standing on a narrower base than the floor usually asks for. Then the range of motion work that keeps hips, shoulders and ankles from tightening into a smaller life.
Class times and locations are set by phone. Call the Jackson office at (731) 462-4315 or send the form on this page, and we will tell you which classes run near you and what the monthly and yearly options look like.
I had such a great experience with the OT services here! The therapist was professional, caring and patient, and truly took the time to understand individual needs.
What else keeps you moving.
Personal Training
The same work as the classes, one on one, when you would rather have someone watching every rep.
Balance Therapy
If unsteadiness is already a daily problem, start with therapy for it rather than with a class.
Arthritis
Stiff joints do better with the right movement than with rest. We help you find which movement.