About This Program
Educational, engaging, and highly entertaining, Jill’s Fitness for Your Aging Brain classes get you up and ‘thinking on your feet’… literally!
While your body works on improving your balance, coordination, aerobic capacity, and muscle strength, your brain will be busy working on an ever-changing series of fun and challenging mental tasks timed to the rhythm of lively, energetic music.
Jill has spent a dozen years and close to 4000 classes experimenting with different types of movement patterns and rhythms that most effectively stimulate your brain and enhance your cognitive function. Every class presents a brand-new set of physical and mental tasks, so you and your brain never get bored.
Classes include a weekly take-home Healthy Brain Tip that delves into the latest cutting-edge research in neuroscience, geriatrics, and exercise science. Jill will explain how to apply the latest scientific discoveries to your daily life to help you maintain peak physical and cognitive wellness throughout a lifetime.
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What You’ll Improve
Your brain and body are deeply connected — and the way you move impacts how you think, feel, and age. Fitness for Your Aging Brain is more than exercise — it’s a full-body, full-mind approach to healthy aging.
Here’s what you’ll work on in every session:
Balance
Balance is critical to aging safely, aging well and aging with confidence. This class
teaches your body to more effectively communicate with your brain to improve balance and reduce your risk of falls.
Strength
Maintaining muscle mass as you age is directly related to your cognitive function.
Glucose (your brain’s main fuel source) is metabolized within muscle tissue. Offsetting the loss with the right form of exercise is important for healthy aging.
Posture
Posture affects everything: your breathing, your balance, the efficiency of your internal organs, your mental state, and your brain function.
Learn to step out into the world and walk like a twenty-year-old again!
Coordination
As you age, you likely sit more, move less and engage in far fewer complex physical challenges.
However, by challenging your body to undertake complex muscle movement patterns, you force your brain to create new neural connections and even stimulate the growth of new brain cells.
Focus and Attention
Engaging in complex physical movement patterns combined with simultaneous mental challenge seizes your brain’s attention.
Exercises that require intense concentration improve your brain’s ability to focus on the present moment.
Cognitive Agility
Multitasking is a myth. Your brain can only focus on a few undertakings at once before its attention begins flipping back and forth from one focal point to another.
Cognitive flexibility exercises train your brain to switch attention rapidly, increasing your mental sharpness.
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