Stonebridge Community Services
200 Broadway St # 206 N4G 5A7 Tillsonburg, ON, Canada

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CardioBlast Jan 26, 2020

Today's Motivation Monday is inspired by Julien and Barbara Greaves, who have never let set backs get in their way of living an active healthy lifestyle. It's easy to get frustrated when life throws you a curve ball but take some advice from this lovely couple and just keep moving. Thanks for being our motivation this Monday Barb and Julien! Here is their story in their own words: Having been in the marine and offshore-oil industries for the majority of my working life and se...ttling in Norway in 1988, we moved to Canada in 2007. Whilst in Norway I was quite active in all types of skiing, Nordic Pole walking, golfing and cycling. It was whilst training for the Trondheim-Oslo cycle marathon (Ca. 540kms) that I suffered a stroke in 2000, which hospitalised me for 5 weeks after which early retirement beckoned. I made a pretty good recovery although I felt noticeably slower, but eventually got back to golf. After settling in Port Dover, Barbara took a part-time job with a law firm. We played golf occasionally and I spent my time gardening, walking and even enjoyed cycling again with a neighbour on a regular basis until 2014, when I was struck with a brain aneurism and hospitalised again - this time for nearly 4 months. Good physiotherapy and wifely care aided the recovery immensely but my stability and balance was rubbish! We read about the various Stonebridge classes in the local newspaper back in 2015 and thought that the ‘Ready, Steady, GO’ classes in particular might be a great assistance to improve my balance and to achieve and maintain a good level of fitness for both of us. Since then we have never looked back, in fact we really look forward to the interaction with the host/instructor and with the other participants. We think that Stonebridge provides a variety of fitness and well-being programs for many levels of ability or disability, with no pressure/intimidation but with lots of educated encouragement, which all assist and motivate us to make that extra effort to stay physically, mentally and socially active. By the way, the music is fantastic! See more

Tell your neighbours, tell your friends! Our first show airs on Monday November 23rd at 10:30am on ROGERS tv Oxford. FUNctional Fitness with our very own Abby Malott is a low impact, gentle exercise program that will get you moving on these chilly winter mornings.

30 minute CardioBlast