Wellness

A Wellness Program for Mind, Body and Soul...

Wellness is a journey that can greatly increase the quality of life we can enjoy. One is never too old to begin a fitness program and the benefits at any age are endless. Whether your goal is to build strength, increase endurance or increase your level of independence, fitness training will help you meet your goals. Gather with friends at T.O.E.S. (The Oaknoll Exercise Society), relax at yoga class, or participate in one-on-one personal training right here at Oaknoll. Our Wellness Center is located in the George Street building and showcases a new state-of-the-art workout room, pool, locker room, physical and massage therapy.

Our residents are using some of the latest in exercise equipment to increase strength and endurance while enjoying exercise on a daily basis: high-end treadmills that have shock absorption to make walking easy on the joints and strength training weight equipment as well as the residents’ favorite, the recumbent bikes. Oaknoll’s exercise equipment is specifically designed for the more mature exerciser. The type of machine a resident chooses depends on the workout they enjoy or are used to doing. The Elliptical Trainer which allows for no impact cardiovascular exercise is similar to running or climbing stairs. It offers less stress on the joints while providing a full body workout.

An exciting addition to the equipment is the NuStep, a recumbent cross-trainer which allows your hips, knees, shoulders, muscles and cardiovascular system to be exercised in total comfort. It’s the “all-in-one” exerciser. The NuStep is a complete low impact total body work out you can do sitting down. The NuStep has a display panel that shows your time, steps per minute, workload and heart rate. A single touch button shows an average of how your workout is going.

Oaknoll Wellness offers numerous activities to enhance your mental and physical well being. All of the wellness activities are available to Oaknoll residents, their families, residents on the waiting list and our employees. The Wellness Center is staffed by a full-time wellness instructor who is certified in senior fitness. Residents may schedule one-on-one time with our instructor who can help design a program that will meet the health and fitness needs of our residents.

Warm Water Lap Pool

Our swimming pool offers a unique water current feature which can be adjusted so a resident may walk or swim against resistance. Water aerobic classes are offered to those who like to get an aerobic workout and want to use the water to reduce stress on joints and muscles. AquaCize classes are offered every day of the week except Sunday’s. AquaCize is a 45-minute water fitness class designed for all levels of fitness. Our pool area also has a hot tub and a bubble seat in the swimming pool.

Swimming Pool hours:

Monday-Friday:
6:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Saturday:
6:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

Sunday:
CLOSED

 

Oaknoll Walking Group

Residents who enjoy walking may join the Oaknoll Walking Group which meets in the mornings at the Sycamore Mall or on nice days they enjoy walking outdoors. Our residents also take advantage of our corridors for walking which provides safe, well-lighted, rain free walking pleasure. Whether a resident joins the Walking Group or walks on their own for exercise, many enjoy keeping track of their steps with pedometers. Each year Oaknoll has a walking challenge program—residents log their miles each day (with the use of their Oaknoll pedometers) for eight weeks. To make this competition a little more interesting the Oaknoll residents challenge area businesses and their employees to see who can log in the most miles. The challenge ends each year with a Health Fair where vendors come in to showcase their healthy products and active wear and bring fun gifts for the residents

The Oaknoll Exercise Society (T.O.E.S.), Yoga, Pilates and Tai Chi

The Oaknoll Exercise Society, better known as “TOES” to our residents, is a group-exercise class that meets three times per week at 9:30 a.m. T.O.E.S. is a thirty minute class in which exercises are performed both seated and standing with an emphasis on improving stretching, strengthening, range of motion and improving balance.

Oaknoll also offers Yoga, Pilates and Tai Chi to our residents so they have choices in their exercise program and find the technique that works best for them. Yoga, Tai Chi and Pilates are offered at various times throughout the week.

A new and exciting class that is being offered is Boot Camp. Boot camp is a way to improve cardiovascular and strength training conditioning. This is an advanced class involving interval training; two minutes of cardio followed by two minutes of lifting. The class time is a total of 45 minutes.

Massage Therapy

For a small fee Oaknoll is fortunate to have a Salon and Spa which offers on-site massage therapy. Licensed massage therapists visit Oaknoll and offer 15 minute neck and shoulder massages and one hour full body massages.

The Oaknoll Salon/Spa

Oaknoll’s Salon and Spa provides full hair salon services as well as manicures and pedicures. There is a salon located on third floor of the George Street addition, a beauty shop on the first floor of the Oakcrest building and a salon located in our Health Center. Our residents have a choice of services by several professional stylists. Our salons are available by appointment to our residents and those on the waiting list as well as staff and family members.

Activities and Programs

A resident may choose to be as active as they want to be in our community. Our residents enjoy trips and outings, lectures, movies, holiday parties, monthly birthday parties, live music concerts, ice cream socials, watermelon feasts and much more! There is always something going on in our active LifeCare community. All this fun is organized by our full-time recreation staff members who strive to offer a wide variety of exciting programs and recreational activities. Oaknoll also has a partnership with the University of Iowa in a special speaker’s series called CLAS CHATS bringing faculty and students from the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to Oaknoll for informative and entertaining programs.

Included in the recreational programming are the many committees at Oaknoll which are sponsored by the Resident Council. Being a member of the committees at Oaknoll gives residents the opportunity to become more involved with the community. Committees include: Birthday, Coffee Shop, Event Greeters, Exercise, Flower, Friendship, Health & Safety, Gardening, Library, Memories, Newcomers, Orientation, Picture, Programs, Recycling, Refreshments, Stitch & Chatter and Vespers.

Great places for newcomers to meet other residents are the Internet Café, the Coffee Shop, Movie Theatre, and the many lounges in which groups get together for art classes, book clubs, bible study and social hours.

 

Your overall well-being is important to us. Our programs in both Recreation and Wellness offer a variety of stimulating choices for your health—mind, body and soul. We hope you will decide to join our community and take advantage of the programs we offer to keep you young and healthy well into your retirement years.