Longevity
The Longevity class is specially designed to meet the needs of individuals whose lives may have introduced physical limitations or constraints, whether due to injuries, childbirth, or aging. Each session is thoughtfully crafted to engage the entire body with exercises tailored to your current abilities while preparing your body for decades of well-being.
Every movement is carefully selected and adapted to be both effective and safe, whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned gym-goer. Regardless of your age or limitations, you’ll find progressions suited to help you regain confidence in movement, restore flexibility, and build functional strength.
Over time, the class helps you progressively build muscle strength, joint mobility, and flexibility, with a constant focus on movement quality and injury prevention. The goal is to help you reach your full potential, allowing you to move freely, painlessly, and with ease in your daily life.
Benefits of longevity class
Comprehensive Strengthening:
The class offers targeted exercises that activate the entire body to develop balanced strength. Each movement is designed to progressively strengthen stabilizing muscles and joints, promoting better posture, optimal body alignment, and greater ease in daily activities. This gentle strengthening also helps prevent muscle tension and chronic pain.
Personalized exercises:
With tailored progressions and variations, the Longevity class meets the needs of everyone, regardless of age, physical condition, or limitations.
In a supportive atmosphere, the program encourages each participant to progress at their own pace, with personalized guidance that respects individual differences. This approach ensures everyone feels safe and enjoys moving while staying attuned to their body’s needs.
Injury prevention and management:
The class includes exercises designed to target and strengthen areas prone to pain and injuries, such as the lower back, hips, knees, and shoulders. These exercises aim to improve joint stability and support by strengthening stabilizing muscles, helping to absorb impact and distribute load evenly across the body.
Gentle mobility exercises are performed within a safe range to loosen tight areas and stimulate blood flow to tissues, promoting regeneration. This work, combined with strengthening exercises, helps restore or maintain natural range of motion, essential for avoiding stiffness and movement restrictions that can lead to injuries.
For those already dealing with chronic pain, the program includes corrective exercises and specific variations targeting the source of discomfort, supporting muscles and joints without overloading or creating undue pressure. By incorporating these movements regularly, participants can reduce current pain and prevent new injuries from occurring.
This preventive focus significantly enhances long-term quality of life, making movements smoother and more comfortable. By adopting these exercises as part of a sustainable routine, the body stays more flexible, resilient, and capable of adapting to life’s challenges, contributing to prolonged vitality and autonomy.
Confidence and Overall Well-Being:
Beyond physical benefits, the Longevity class helps boost self-confidence through motivating guidance and a supportive environment. Each session fosters a stronger connection with your body, reduces stress, and cultivates a lasting sense of well-being.
Who Can Benefit from the Longevity Class?
Seniors:
The Longevity class helps maintain muscle strength and bone density, key elements in preventing falls and fractures that can have serious consequences for seniors. Staying active also promotes flexibility and mobility, helping to preserve functional independence and perform daily activities with ease. Physical activity is closely linked to improved mood and cognition. (Gentle Pilates and Gentle Mobility & Strength Flow are also recommended for seniors for these reasons.)
those managing injury or pain:
Moderate physical activity can help prevent complications associated with inactivity, such as muscle loss, joint stiffness, and atrophy. Incorporating proprioception exercises, proper posture, and good technique into your training program teaches you how to move safely with an injury and avoid the risk of recurrence or aggravation.
beginners or those seeking moderate training:
Slow, controlled exercises make it easier to develop body awareness. The slower pace allows for a focus on form and technique, promoting deeper muscle strengthening and better activation of stabilizing muscles. The Longevity class (like Gentle Pilates and Gentle Mobility & Strength Flow) establishes a solid foundation for future progress in your fitness program.
Strength, Flexibility, Balance, Coordination: The Importance of Fitness for Seniors
Wellness needs evolve with age, and the Longevity class offers exercises tailored to seniors to maintain strength, balance, and mobility gently. Designed to support daily vitality, this program includes senior-friendly exercises that strengthen muscles while protecting joints.
Sessions provide progressive muscle work, ideal for seniors aiming to maintain or regain strength without straining sensitive joints. Through adapted strength-training movements, participants develop functional strength that makes daily tasks easier and helps preserve independence.
Balance exercises, essential for reducing the risk of falls, are integrated to improve stability and confidence in movements. Working on balance this way allows seniors to move more securely and comfortably while strengthening stabilizing muscles.
To promote flexibility, the program also includes gentle stretching exercises tailored to seniors' needs. These movements target key tension areas, such as the lower back, hips, and legs, improving range of motion and reducing stiffness. Specific hip-stretching exercises also help maintain flexibility, crucial for better mobility.
Finally, coordination exercises are included to synchronize movements and improve reflexes, an important aspect for seniors aiming to stay active safely. By working on coordination, participants enhance body control, reducing the risk of injuries from daily movements.
This fitness program is designed to give everyone, regardless of age or ability, the chance to move safely and enjoyably. The Longevity class emphasizes muscle strengthening, balance, coordination, and flexibility to promote lasting well-being.
Longevity Class in Montreal
Offered at Gymnase in Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie, the Longevity class safely breaks down movements to improve strength and mobility.
No matter your age or limitations, we provide progressions tailored to help you move with ease again.
Good to know about the LOngevity class :
Held every Tuesday at 10 a.m. (Similar classes: Gentle Mobility & Strength Flow on Mondays at 10 a.m. and Gentle Pilates on Fridays at 10 a.m.)
Class duration: 55 minutes
Bring a towel and water bottle. All other accessories are provided.