Day 4 of prac- entry 2 16/10/08

Today i had to run an exercise class with Lillie. This was the second time we have run one however we have help out on the previous 2 days. We had 9 people including ourselves in the class which was a nice size to handle. We felt completely comfortable even though we were unsupervised as we had watched to classes on previous days and had practiced running classes at uni.



We began with a Warm up which included marching in sitting, stretches, ankle and wrist circles, head stretches etc. . Then we did upper limb ROM exercises in sitting with each client holding onto a stick. The stick actually seemed to encourage them to more their joints more whilst they aimed to do things like trying to reach the roof with their stick. We then did some Lower limb exercises also in sitting such as knee extension and Straight leg raise. Then we moved on to coordination where Lillie did a few movements and then had to copy such as touch knees, touch shoulders, touch head.

Before we ended we played a game of coits where each person had a ring that they had to try and get on the pole in the middle. This was great fun- they really enjoyed this. It encouraged throwing (therefore arm movement) and judgement and coordination to get the ring on the pole.

We finished up with some deep breathing and stretches to cool down.

All in all this was a great class. It was nice to hear from the supervisor later on in the day that clients that being reporting to her how much the enjoyed the class that we ran. I would be more than happy to run another one.