Are Your 65 or Older?
Insurance Benefit for Free Membership
Depending on your insurance, if you are 65 or older, or on disability, you may qualify for a free membership and free fitness classes. American Specialty Health Fitness is a health plan that compliments your health insurance. In the southern California area, Sharp Health Care, Kaiser, Aetna, Anthem Blue Cross, and Health Net are the primary insurance companies offering this wonderful benefit at zero cost to the member.
In our case as a fitness facility, the participating member can attend any and all classes that we offer as part of American Specialty Health’s Silver & Fit program. This includes Yoga classes, a whole-body interval training class called Lunch Crunch, and Pilates will soon be added to this list. Other complimentary services that fit into the whole health paradigm include chiropractic coverage, acupuncture and massage.
You May Qualify for a Free Membership
Free Membership Provided
It’s wonderful that insurance companies are finally starting to realize that encouraging healthy living for seniors is the way to go. When people maintain good physical conditioning, their health insurance costs decrease. Being in good health slows disease progression and decreases the need or at least the amount of many medications. Blood pressure medication and pain medication are two that often are affected in a positive way. And weight-bearing exercise not only increases strength, but it is proven to improve bone density. Not just slow the progression of bone loss, but actually increase bone density numbers. It’s amazing that we still encounter physicians from time to time that are unaware of this!
Balance training decreases the likelihood of falls, and remaining mobile will allow a person to maintain their independence. Not to mention that weight loss is a bi-product of regular exercise. So if you are 65 or older, check with your health insurance company to see if you have this benefit available to you. If so, give us a call and we’ll take care of all the rest at no cost to you. Pick up the phone and start living your life to the optimum today!
Melissa
OptimumCondition.com
(619) 252-4993
Empowering people through fitness, education, and coaching
