HealthRidge Wellness
At HealthRidge Wellness, we are a medically-based fitness center that specializes in helping you feel better, get stronger and improve your health. You can find fitness and wellness classes designed for a wide range of needs, ages, and abilities right here at our fitness center located at Forest Ridge.
Monday – Thursday: 5:30 am – 8 pm
Friday: 5:30 am – 7 pm
Saturday: 7 am – 12 pm
Sunday: Closed
Contact HealthRidge for additional information about classes, costs, and the most up-to-date schedules.
By the numbers
HCH Data 2024
Group workout classes
The following programs and classes are open to any interested community member. Please contact HealthRidge if you have any questions about your eligibility or schedules.
Classes are 45-60 minutes long. Cost for these class are $50 for 15 sessions and can be mixed and matched with any other group workout class.
- Body Toning – This land-based resistance training class utilizes weighted bars incorporating core training and lower-body exercises to contract and elongate muscles.
- Big Aquatic Method (BAM!) – A building block style aquatic class consisting of big, exaggerated, and repeated movements done with resistance of water.
- Gentle Flow – An aquatic class designed to reduce stress with relaxing and gentle aquatic movements in a therapeutic environment.
- Gentle Strength – This non-intimidating, beginner/intermediate level class is designed to gently and gradually improve muscle tone, muscle strength, muscular endurance, balance, and flexibility.
- SilverSplash – An aquatic class for SilverSneaker participants only (free with qualifying insurance), designed to be a fun, low intensity class, suitable for all skill levels.
- Water Aerobics –An aquatic class incorporating low impact aerobic moves and water-resistance toning.
- Water Walking – A gentle aquatic class consisting of walking forward, backward, and lateral movements, etc., while using the resistance of the water to tone.
Prescription-based programs
If you have or have had health conditions such as arthritis, fibromyalgia, high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer or chronic pain, our prescription-based programs could be beneficial for you. Prescription/referral from your Physician and pre-registration is required to participate.
- AARP IHC Fitness
- Aquatic Rehab Maintenance
- New Beginnings
- Oncology Rehab
- Prescription Wellness
- PT Maintenance
- Rock Steady Boxing
- SilverSneakers Fitness Program
Please reach out to HealthRidge at 765-521-1216 for more details.
Special programs and classes
The following special programs and classes are open to any interested community member. These classes/programs are offered throughout the year. Preregistration is required to participate. Please reach out to HealthRidge for more details.
- Balance Clinic
- Club Line Dancing
- HealthRidge Walking Club
- Maintenance Programs
- Pickleball
- Tabata
- Yoga 101
FAQs about Health Programs & Classes
All prescription-based programs require primary care physician or specialist approval (renewed yearly) with a minimum of one medical diagnosis, such as deconditioned, high blood pressure, etc., for prescribed preventative and/or rehabilitative exercise in the gym area.
The prescription/referral establishes the need for prescribed exercise, ensures we are targeting diagnoses that are of priority to your provider, and confirms your provider is clearing you for exercise tolerance.
Other classes, such as group classes and special programs, do not need a prescription/referral and are open to any community member!
After completing a prescription-based program, HealthRidge offers participants the option to continue those workouts independently. Prior to starting your independent workouts, you will have 3 appointments with one of our specialists.
The first appointment includes:
- a review of your diagnosis, medical history, medications, and personal goals
- exercises determined in alignment with this information as a whole and designed to be tolerance-based to help you to not do an exercise or stretch that could be contraindicated
- readings for blood pressure, resting heart rate, blood oxygen efficiency, body fat composition, body mass index, basal metabolic rate, and healthy weight range. (This allows us to reevaluate and compare progress in future.)
The second appointment includes:
- having you perform the prescribed exercises and stretches from the initial appointment to ensure your tolerance for each activity
- establish correct adjustments, settings, form, etc. for your needs
- fine tuning best resistance tolerance for specificity.
The third appointment includes:
- making sure all of the exercises from the second appointment were well-tolerated and making changes, if needed.
- explaining your final prescribed exercise card for you to reference with equipment number, reps, sets, and settings.
- shadowing you as you go through the workout to help you “lock in” the exercise information and making you comfortable and confident with being independent thereafter.
After your 3 appointments you will be cleared to continue your workouts independently at our gym!
No prescription/referral is needed for HealthRidge Aerobic or Aquatic classes; however, it is needed for Aquatic Therapy (Rehabilitation) and for the HealthRidge gym exercise programs.
Not all programs/classes are covered by insurance. Only Silver Sneakers, Healthy Contributions/Renew Fitness, and FitOn Health programs are covered by insurance. SilverSneakers is for the individual with participating Medicare supplemental insurance plans. Healthy Contributions is for the individual with participating AARP Medicare Complete & Medicare Supplement insurance plans.
If you need help checking your eligibility, call HealthRidge at 765-521-1216.
We do offer monthly Tanita body composition readings with caloric guidelines, as well as track biometrics during assessments and re-evaluations to anyone that is enrolled/attending a HealthRidge group class, special program, prescription-based program, or gym membership.
*Note: We are degreed and certified exercise science, health science, and fitness/wellness clinicians. We can give you general information regarding nutrition, but we are not licensed nutritionists.*