Living at Scottish Rite Park, you’ll have ready access to our fitness center equipped with advanced active-aging exercise equipment. Fitness stations by TechnoGym are specifically designed for older adults and are self-adjusting and easy to use.

• Kinesis is a top-of-the-line machine that uses cables to provide resistance across three planes of movement
• Nu-Step machines
• Treadmills
• Ellipticals
• Exercise bikes
• Dumbbells ranging from 1-25 pounds
• Weighted bars
• Step cardio
• Exercise balls
• Medicine balls
• Wobble boards
• Yoga mats
• Yoga balls
• Resistance bands

With the health and wellness of our residents a top priority, we employ a full-time Wellness Director to lead regularly scheduled strength and balance classes, as well as featured classes like yoga. Individualized fitness programs specifically tailored to meet a resident’s wellness goals can also be developed one-on-one with our Wellness Director.

Strength & Balance Class

Classes consist of a variety of seated and standing chair exercises that work on our flexibility, balance and strength.
30-minute duration = 5 min. warm-up. 10 min. seated arm and abdominal exercises (weights are recommended but not required). 10 min. seated/standing lower body/leg exercises. 5 min. seated cool-down. (Stretching and breathing)

• Intermediate & beginner classes have longer rest intervals between exercises and less repetitions allowing for lower impact to the muscle groups being worked.
• Advanced class consists of more repetitions with less rest time between exercises.

Chair Yoga & Advanced Yoga

In both classes our poses are the foundation, where we hold positions and create tension in our muscles. We also gain relaxation and tension reduction through our warm-up and cool down. Yoga is great for toning muscles, reducing stress, improving/maintaining posture, balance and flexibility. Yoga also helps with pain relief and fall prevention.

• Chair yoga– we stay seated through the whole class. Our yoga poses are modified to allow the activation of our muscles while using the support of our chairs. In this class there is no sun salutation flow or balance practice. A typical class would start with a warm-up, go into poses and then end with a cool down.
• Advanced yoga– we go between the floor and standing throughout class. Occasionally we go through sun salutations where we work up heat in the body and get our heart rates up by flowing through multiple poses. A portion of advanced yoga is also focused on balance. A typical class would start with a warm-up, move into sun salutation, followed by poses, balance practice and then end with a cool down.

Scottish Rite Park was recognized by the American Heart Association for six consecutive years as a Fit-Friendly Workplace Gold Achievement Company. In the 11-state Midwest Affiliate Region, there are only 287 worksites with this honor.