Exercise for Good

Exercise for Good Exercise Trainer specialising in Falls Prevention, Parkinson’s Disease, Stroke & Prostate Cancer.

09/11/2025

Nothin’ much to see here? Well, single leg body-weight deadlifts🦵on Brendon’s stroke affected side have taken well over a year to look like this… through ‘chipping away’ he’s now deadlifting 120kg again, mowing his lawns, cleaning his pool, holidaying overseas (camping styles 🏕️), getting around on an electric scooter & talking other goals for the first time.

05/11/2025

🚶🏽‍♂️🎵 Matching steps to the metronome beat… working on stride symmetry. Neil here has returned to the gym 6 years post-stroke - what a gutsy guy & evidence that it’s possible to keep restoring function years ‘down the track’ if the intent is there.

Love Tuesday mornings with Neil (& his motor racing updates, stories farming in North Canterbury, love of cars & seriously good humour!)

03/11/2025

🥊 Meet Monday’s Parkie’s Crew… lifting EXERCISE INTENSITY for some of the session is essential for brain neuroplasticity… boxing is the perfect ‘huff & puff’ exercise demanding power, weight shift, balance, accuracy & amplitude with looong punches

03/11/2025

Owen owning yesterday’s circuit station drilling REACH, ROTATION & CROSSING THE MIDLINE 🧠 …perfect primer for his boxing cross & the props (rollers & post-its) give him feedback on his amplitude/bigness of movement 👊

16/10/2025

🚘 Pre-class Prost-FIT banter yesterday exchanging stories of getting first driver’s licenses (inspired by my 16 year old just getting hers)…turns out it was a little easier ‘back in the day’!

17/08/2025

🚶🏽Gait Gains… Blackie works tirelessly on his opposite arm swing to leg, accuracy of foot placement & turning tightly on the spot. These motor aspects are no longer ‘automated’ with his Parkinson’s Disease, so we drill them again & again (with his rests full of great stories of rugby days…he’s not as innocent as he looks 😉)

Dry July done & dusted for another year 👏… dollars are distributed to NZ cancer organisations 🌼
06/08/2025

Dry July done & dusted for another year 👏… dollars are distributed to NZ cancer organisations 🌼

30/07/2025

As Colin rows between walking intervals, another resthome gentleman belts out some impromptu Queen lyrics for us in the background ! 🎶 🎤 😍

28/07/2025

Can you even pick Brendon’s stroke affected side now!?

Doing away with the ‘flexor’ pattern in his upper limb (tendency for shoulder to internally rotate & elbow/wrist/fingers to stay bent).

Can you keep restoring function & power 4 years after a stroke? Yes he can, he’s a man on a mission 🙌💪

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