Rock Steady Boxing at the Bell Road YMCA

Rock Steady Boxing gives people with Parkinson’s disease hope by improving their quality of life through a non-contact boxing based fitness curriculum.

In this class, one-fourth of the time is spent doing the actual hitting on the heavy bags and speed bags.

The remainder of the class is spent doing a variety of things as follows:

• Coordination: foot movements combined with arm movements

• Walking and gait activities

• Strength training with light weights, resistance tubing and body bars

• Obstacles-stepping over objects forward and back as well as lateral movements

• Balance training with weight shifting activities as well as static balance

• Fine motor skills with games such as Operation, stringing beads, buttoning, etc.

• Cognition-remembering sequences, games like Simon Says

• Flexibility-stretches and yoga type activities

• Core work-seated or on the mat

• Voice activation-reading tongue twisters, yelling favorite food, singing songs like Row, Row, Row your boat

• Days: Monday – Thursday

• Time: 11:30am – 12:45pm

• Monthly Cost: $25 Members || $50 Non-Members

• Daily Rate: $10 Members || $15 Non-Members

NOTE: you must have a diagnosis of Parkinson’s by a doctor; then an assessment will be completed by a Rock Steady Coach.

Questions

Contact Marcie Peake at 334.271.4343 or mpeake@ymcamontgomery.org