1. Instruction of various kinds of exercise for
many purposes
Population and individual
approach
We carry out both population and individual approach
depending on the contents of activities requested. We also make an exercise
prescription under the instructions of public health nurses and doctors for “specific
health guidance”.
1) Walking and Nordic
walking
Making of
the walking map oriented to the local area is one of our best performances. The map will be useful for health
promoting activities.
2) Hot spring bathing, exercise in a bathtub, underwater exercise
Education of how to take a (hot spring) bath,
our original exercise methods in a bathtub and underwater exercise is
available. It is useful for life style improvement, avoiding nursing care and
for sustainable health
promotion.
3) Exercise class for men
Exercise classes tend to be occupied mainly by women. Because most of participants are women, even
if men want to join the class, it is hard to do so for men. We can cope with
the situation from the men in the prime of their working life to the elderly.
4) Exercise class for children, for their mothers, and for parent
and child
We can offer several kinds of menu that
meet the local needs, i.e. improving physical fitness of children, body weight reducing
program and preventive program of lifestyle related disease for the mother’s
generation.
Furthermore,
please let us give you technical advices to improve the skills for such as horizontal
bar and vaulting horse playing.
These
programs are very useful to treat and avoid lifestyle related disease in the
children and for lack of exercise in winter season.
5) Exercise program for individuals
Many programs that can be done at home are proposed. Introduction
of individual exercise program and energy expenditure of each exercise are
provided.
l Mets and/or the exercise point will be included
if required.
l Useful for providing a motivation, making
an opportunity to start and maintain exercise habit.
l Physical activity level measurement
6) Relaxation and stress relief
This program
mainly aims to relieve mental stress and to restore peace of mind, which leads
to good balance between mental and physical state.
l Helpful for preventing dropout and
improvement of continuity
l Also suitable for preventive class from
nursing care.
7) Protect the elderly from falling and nursing care
We
instruct exercise to maintain and/or strengthen muscle power not to become
bedridden caused by injury and disease. It is also useful as prevention and improvement
of the lifestyle related diseases.
8) Adopt exercise to daily life, to
public policy
Aiming to increase daily life activity, we adopt
exercise to daily life.
It leads to continuation
of exercise and health promotion activity, maintenance of motivation for
exercise and elevated performance. We are ready to contribute to prevention
class from nursing care.
9) Nutritional education
Making
out an ideal menu and providing nutritionally good food menu.
Popular class for the housewives with children.
10) Improvement and prevention of lifestyle related diseases and
metabolic syndrome.
Classrooms localized for regional characteristics and adjusted
to individual subjects are available, which would provide the chance making and
motivation for behavioral modification.
11) Building up physical strength and fitness for healthy life
Programs about dietetics, exercise and taking
a rest are provided and we aim at creating the active life free from fatigue
and physical pain.
It helps
maintenance and improvement of the motivation in behavioral modification.
2. Details of actual skills
1) Aerobic exercise
l Easy aerobic exercise
l Aerobic exercise possible anywhere
l Aerobic exercise sitting on the floor to music
l Aerobic exercise with standing position to music
l Rhythm dance introducing the pleasure of exercise
l Punch & kick exercise (“Boxercise”,
“Kick boxercise”)
2) Walking and Nordic walking
l Utilization of the walking map
l Easy walking lecture
Ø Right and effective walking technique
Ø Exercise program adding to walking
Ø Building of muscular strength necessary for
walking
l Walking exercise
l Trial class for Nordic walking
l Right posture and the right walking style
3) Exercise in a chair
l Aerobic exercise to music
l Shape up exercise
l Easy chair exercise for prevention of low back pain
4) Underwater exercise
l Underwater walking
l Underwater dumbbell
l Aqua aerobics
l Relaxation
5) Practical use of training machine in training gyms
l Explanation and instructions for practical
use of training machine
l Trial of the exercise machine
l Running machine, Exercise bike etc.
6) Muscle building, Posture correction
l Easy muscle building
Upper and lower part of the
body
Quadriceps, Biceps, Psoas major
l Prevention for low back pain
l Reduction of abdominal circumference (fat mass)
l Muscle training against wall
l Home muscle stretching
l Home exercise to relieve pain
l Training of the human trunk
Abdominal and back muscle,
external and internal oblique muscle
7) Stretch
l Aroma relaxation
l Neck and shoulder
l Home muscle stretching
l Raising metabolic turnover
l Use of stretch pole
8) Exercise for children
l Together with his/her mother /father
l Ball exercise
l Rhythm dance
l Punch and kick
l Stretching
l Exercise play classroom（Coordination training）
l Playing tag like exercise
l
Vaulting box,
horizontal bar
9) Original exercise
l Simple home exercise
l Exercise doing something without any
efforts
l Adjustment exercise
l Twist exercise
l Flexibility check using a string (String exercise)
Home exercise
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10) Bath exercise
Measurement items
1. Anthropometry
・Height
・Weight
・Body
fat
・Abdominal
circumference
・BMI
・Blood
pressure
・Pulse
2. Physical fitness test
・30-sec
Chair standing test
・Sit-up
・Maximum
one step length
・One-leg
standing with eyes open (or closed)
・Grip
・Bending
forward with a long sitting position
・5m
walk,10m walk
・Timed
Up&Go
3. Questionnaire
・Behavioral
modification (dietary, exercise and taking a rest)
・Health
Practice Index (HPI)
・Profile
of Mood State (POMS)
・Mood
Check List (MCL)
4. Others
・Blood
test (supervised by doctors)
・Blood
vessel age, autonomic nervous balance (photoplethysmogram,
Accelaration
Pulse Waves)
・Physical
activity level measurement (Life coda)
・Measurement
of Stress (salivary cortisol, amylase)
・Metabolic
rate (oxygen uptake rate)
