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Health & Fitness Wednesday, August 14, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Water does wonders for wellness
By Jim Cornelius
Editor in Chief
Water is wondrous. For
many people dealing with
injuries, aging joints or neu-
rological problems, activities
in a pool or swim spa can
make all the difference in
their ability to enjoy life.
Rick Trammell of Aqua
Hot Tubs in Sisters recalls, <I
have this one customer who
does a ton of work out in the
woods, and he picked up a
swim spa before we bought
the store.=
The man has a morning
routine that starts in the swim
spa. Due to the nature of his
work, he9s pretty stove up.
<It9s everything he can do
to get out to the swim spa,=
Trammell said.
But once he9s in the spa,
he9s able to loosen up.
<Just the type of motion
allows him to get his creaks
and moans out so he can go
out and work hard,= Trammell
said. <Low-impact aerobic
activity just works it out.=
Such stories are the daily
bread and butter of Matt
Kirchoff of Therapeutic
Associates in Sisters. He
works with a wide range of
patients in the pool at Sisters
Athletic Club, right next door.
People with knee and hip
issues can benefit greatly
from exercise in a pool.
<You have an unload-
ing effect on joints, num-
ber one,= Kirchoff said.
<You9re unloading hips and
knees by 25 to 50 percent of
bodyweight.=
That means people who9s
joints cause them too much
pain to exercise on dry land
can get their exercise in the
water.
<You put them in the pool,
they9re able to do a lot, rela-
tively pain-free,= Kirchoff
said.
Kirchoff told The Nugget
that he gets the greatest satis-
faction working with people
who have neurological prob-
lems that make movement
difficult. Often, those people
can do things in water they
can no longer do safely 4 or
at all 4 on dry land.
Trainer is excited to
work in Sisters Country
By Jim Cornelius
Editor in Chief
PHOTO PROVIDED
Aquatic therapy is good for rehab and for daily well-being.
<They can work out for
45 minutes,= Kirchoff said.
<That has not only a great
physical benefit for those
people, but psychological
because they9re able to move
relatively normally for a long
period of time.=
While Sisters Athletic
Club offers use of its pool to
a step-down program with
Therapeutic Associates, the
benefits of aqua therapy are
not limited to those under
care. SAC offers regular
Aqua Fitness classes for
members.
Water workouts are not
limited to the aged, the infirm
or those recovering from
injury. Elite athletes have
long understood the benefits
of training in water.
<I9ve worked with some
higher-level athletes in the
pool over the years, and it can
be very beneficial,= Kirchoff
said.
Water exercise offers
opportunities for higher
training loads with reduced
soreness. Athletes can apply
water training to move past
plateaus.
Kirchoff notes that water
exercise should not be exclu-
sive. For example, he encour-
ages weight-bearing exer-
cises to stave off osteoporo-
sis. Water exercise should
be part of a program. Often,
it can be used to help a per-
son get strong enough 4 or
return to strength 4 to do
more dry land work.
A pool or swim spa can be
a versatile and highly effec-
tive fitness tool 4 one that
Kirchoff values greatly.
<I feel lucky that I9ve had
access to a pool for my whole
career,= he said.
Cody Tweeten has a
wide and deep background
in exerices to bring to the
benefit of his new clients at
Sisters Athletic Club (SAC).
Tweeten comes to SAC
from Wyoming, where
he worked as a Certified
Exercise Physiologist. As
such, he has expertise in both
corrective exercise 4 work
designed to fix problems
with movement and function
4 and sports performance.
And he can work with just
about anyone.
<I have a background with
little kids, teenagers, college
athletes, middle-aged folks,
grandmas and grandpas,=
he said. <I can help people
before they get injured,= he
said. <And that9s what I want
to do. I9d rather do prehab
than do rehab.=
The two keys to health
and fitness really boil down
to diet and exercise 4 and
Tweeten maintains a straight-
forward approach to both. He
doesn9t go in for diet fads,
believing that sustainable
habits are the only way to
really affect dietary change.
<Diet programs 4 as far
as I go is eat as clean as pos-
sible,= he told The Nugget.
Cut out as much sugar as
possible and eat whole foods
rather than processed foods.
Sustainability is key to
exercise programs, too.
People will only stick to pro-
grams that are satisfying to
them.
<As far as workouts go,
it9s really whatever the per-
son likes,= he said. <I do
like to steer people toward
strength training because
there are so many added ben-
efits,= he said. (See related
story, page 19.)
With his background as a
certified exercise physiolo-
gist he can add exercises into
a program to head off poten-
tial problems.
Tweeten came to Sisters
Athletic Club after his wife,
Abby, got a job as a reg-
istered nurse in Central
Oregon. Central Oregon suits
him to a tee.
<I9m excited to move over
here, 9cause there9s all kinds
of stuff,= he said.
He likes to hike, hunt,
rock-climb, play basketball
and volleyball.
<My wife tells me I have
too many hobbies,= he said
with a smile. <I can9t get any
more.=
But then there9s cycling
and skiing and some world-
class fly-fishing streams&
To i n q u i r e a b o u t
Tweeten9s personal train-
ing service, contact him
through SAC at cody@
sistersathleticclub.com or
call 541-549-6878.
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