Shangti Lehuo Sports and Health Clubhouse for the Elderly, located on Ningguo Road, has been favored by the elderly in Yangpu District since its opening. As the weather gradually warms up, more and more elderly people come here to enjoy professional sports and health services close to their home. Let’s see how the elderly feel like it.

Sports and Health Clubhouse for the Elderly

Recently, Chen Yingfu, who is in his 70s, was recommended to come here by a friend and practiced the horizontal exercise bike under the guidance of the staff.

“When you first use the horizontal exercise bike, you can try the gear without resistance, so that you can better exercise the range of motion of your joints, especially the linkage of your hip and knee joints.” Li Rujun, a community (sports) health teacher, suggested. “After you find the feeling of riding, you can adjust the resistance of riding to 1-3, which can make the legs feel a certain amount of power slightly, and improve the physical fitness for a period of time.”

The 172m2 domestic space is reasonably planned with fitness monitoring area, aerobic cardiopulmonary function area, isokinetic muscle exercise area, microcirculation promotion area, comprehensive intervention area and leisure exchange area, and special personnel are assigned to give fitness guidance. Different from traditional fitness venues, all fitness equipment here are designed to adapt to the elderly according to the physical characteristics of the elderly, and provide “one-stop” sports and health professional services for the elderly, such as health testing, scientific guidance, equipment exercise, health lectures, sports program formulation, chronic disease intervention and social entertainment.

While meeting the sports and health needs of the elderly in the community, it is also a warm and fashionable social platform. As the supporting area of the elderly sports and health clubhouse, the 144m2 multi-function hall offers a variety of popular health and group exercises courses for the elderly, such as Tai Chi, Baduanjin, yoga for the elderly, and Chinese dance. Elderly men and women who like to play table tennis can also show their skills on the table. There are not only two professional tables, but also one mini table for you to play the popular mobile table tennis.

The loyal “fan” Pan Haihong cheerfully became a “live advertisement”. “I will come as soon as I have time. Generally, I will run first, and then take yoga classes. Sometimes I will come to all kinds of equipment to move in the afternoon.” Pan Haihong said, after exercising for a period of time, I feel better not only physically, but also mentally. “If there is anything unhappy at ordinary times, we can talk and laugh together." Pan Haihong, who has learned the benefits of sports, now insists on exercising every day.

The Sports and Health Clubhouse for the Elderly is the first community multi-functional fitness center for the elderly in Shanghai in the country. According to the 14th Five-Year Plan of Shanghai Sports Development, 100 will be built by 2025. Compared with the relatively expensive fitness clubs, the Sports and Health Clubhouse for the Elderly adopts the service mode of low price (99 CNY/month) for the elderly. As a special support project for designated venues of sports consumption vouchers in Shanghai, the elderly can also use 30 CNY sports vouchers, and can enjoy professional sports and health services at 69 CNY per month.

According to the Report on the Development of Shanghai Sports Health Clubhouse for the Elderly released by the Shanghai University of Sports, the elderly who exercise in the Sports and Health Clubhouse for the Elderly have significant effects. 95% of the elderly have formed the habit of measuring blood pressure and heart rate before and after exercise; 89% of the them have significantly improved their sports health literacy, and recognize the importance of scientific sports intervention in chronic diseases. By comparing and analyzing the measurement indexes before and after exercise, it was found that their cardiopulmonary function, grip strength, upper limb muscle strength, lower limb flexibility, balance function, average reaction time and body composition BMI have been significantly improved after six months of exercise in the Clubhouse, which has significant benefits for the elderly to prevent falls, improve cognition and improve life quality.

At present, four Sports and Health Clubhouses for the Elderly have been built in Yangpu District, which are distributed in Daqiao, Kongjiang, Wujiaochang and Yinhang Sub-districts, serving more than 200,000 people in total. In the future, more elderly people will be able to enjoy professional sports and health services close to their home.