I had to hang on to the rail all the time to walk into the place. Unlike many other exercise classes for older people, this therapy concentrates on weight lifting training to tackle muscle loss and disease. The people that come here have things like arthritis, diabetes. Some people have had a stroke. We've got people that have walking imbalance problems, that have had a history of falling.
Some people have respiratory problems.
I was going to put meself in an old man's home, but I decided against it since I come here. At 73, Margaret has been battling depression for much of her life, but she now thinks this strength training therapy may have helped her beat the blues. You might well wonder how exercise and pumping iron could help your head, but it has by improving, I think, my self-confidence and your esteem. It just gives you a greater sense of self and a greater sense of well-being and able to cope with difficulties that could bring about depression. You can face them and confront your difficulties.