Wellness

[AngelPuppy1]

I am thinking about trying this out.  I have it free as part of my insurance and there is a facility very close to where I live and this particular one is labled as 30 and out or something like that and is for women only.

Does anyone here use the silver sneaker program, and if so, what are your thoughts?  Do you find it beneficial?  If so, what features or classes do you like? 

I haven't gone to a fitness facility in probably 40 years and so I don't know if I would be able to do any of the activities.  I am not much for going to fitness places either.  I always preferred doing my exercising at home.  

I think I might just go for a tour and see what they have. 

Thanks for your answers! 

[jlkz]

@AngelPuppy1 

For a few years Silver Sneakers was a free benefit to our insurance plan.  I used their videos on demands for the different programs I was interested in.  Some seated stretches, some balancing and even a dance series. 

No facility was close by but I really liked the session

leaders. The sessions were about 30 minutes long and I really used them.  

Two years ago insurance plan switched and I signed into a chain, Planet Fitness.  Went once: too huge, staff not really willing to demonstrate or help with initial equipment usage, too noisy, too " intense " cliques.  I left and never went back.

[drizzellla]

I only know about it, second hand.

My neighbor used it for many years. He went to a local gym about a mile from our houses. He really liked it. The gym had everything, especially a large swimming pool. He used that frequently. And he kept in very good shape well into his 80s. He was still mowing his own grass and keeping up with whatever work needed to be done.

The gym was not part of a chain. It had a local owner and he took great pride and expense in opening and maintaining the gym. My husband was going to join several times but with working and his daily running in the local parks and going to his mountain cabin, he felt he would not use it (he wasn't silver sneakers age). But one of his friends joined. His friend has gone for many years. Even after he was hit by a car while he was riding his bicycle (with a group of 9 other people on a wide country road).

i think it is an excellent program. Try it out, you have nothing to lose. Take the tour.

[JeanLouiseFinch]

I don't know if there is a SS program here, but I've learned from past experiences that being required to get myself ready and driving somewhere just to exercise is not my cup of tea. DH and I go out the front door and walk through our neighborhood.  There are also videos available to do at home.  

[amyb]

I had it in my last healthcare plan, but I think my local Y stopped participating, so I never checked it out anywhere else.

Pre-Covid I used to take classes at my Community Center once or twice a week, (not on Medicare then or SS), just because it's nice to take some live classes, and then I'd walk, indoor bike, and work out at home the most...YouTube classes & my Pilates reformer. I still do all that. I never went back to the Community Center after Covid. They participated in SS.

I started strength training classes by a CT trainer who started her programs online during Covid and I'm still taking classes with her, as I wanted to focus on bone health/building muscle/strength.

I just had to change my ins. plan to include my PCP, as United Healthcare is still in negotiations with re-signing with the hospital she's affiliated with, so didn't want to take the chance of her becoming "out of network." That said, I forget if my new plan has SS, but I recall my agent asking if that was important to me...I think that was because I might lose it with the new plan.

I may check it out at my Community Center, if it's included in my plan. I also may be changing back my plan in Oct, if UH does re-sign with my PCP's hospital affiliation.

I have everything at home I need to work out, bike, walking pad, reformer, online classes, but sometimes enjoy going to a live class. Have not been into going to a gym for the machines, since the 90s. The machines were affective back then, but I don't love those atmospheres anymore, didn't love it then...noisy, crowded, etc, but I like my Community Center just for the classes.

Anyway @AngelPuppy1 I'd check it out if I were you, as someone said, nothing to lose!

[Franklinbell]

I say, check it out! Let us know what you think!

[Meowingkitty]

I use it regularly. My insurance calls it Renew Active. It allows me to join up to 5 gyms at a time. I currently use 2. I go for Water Zumba, Water Aerobics and. Silver Sneakers Class at one gym and use the machines and walking track at the other. I can use any of the gyms equipment anytime and as much as I want. 

[beppa5485]

I use the SS online live classes for strength training, yoga, cardio. Like them!

[We rescue cats]

Our Silver Sneakers includes use of the re-habilitation equipment at the local physical therapy clinics, it was a great program but boring at the shop closest to me. I liked the equipment but there's no music or television to help occupy this old brain so I tired of going. I needed to use my phone to tune into Sirius but never did so.

[Mz iMac]

@AngelPuppy1  My insurance calls it Renew Active.  I only use the gym's FREE membership for its snack shop, olympic size heated pool & my very own weight lifting "personal" trainer.