WiseMoves Kingston, Kingston, ON (2026)

05/30/2025

Just a lil fella supporting his grandpawrent through her exercise today 🫶💛🐕

04/17/2025

Beautiful day for a walk 🌞 (featuring matching outfits) 👯‍♀️

04/01/2025

🌷 April is Parkinson’s Awareness month 🌷

What a great way to start the month with some continuing education in my back pocket. 🤓 💪🏻

Working with individuals with Parkinson’s Disease is a big part of my career and I have such passion in my soul for my hours spent with this community. I love taking courses and learning how to bring better programming to the humans that work so hard with me every week.

The Parkinson’s community is such a powerful and inspiring group of people. They battle hard each and every day and I’m grateful for the role I play in contributing to their overall quality of life. Since 2019 I’ve witnessed the power of movement for my PD team and I can’t wait to see what we accomplish together this year. ✨👏

03/27/2025

✨ Cuing for Dementia & Alzheimer’s ✨

Following and understanding instructions can be difficult if you are someone living with dementia or Alzheimer’s. Demoing an exercise for your client is super important, as well as teaching them in a way that is simple to understand.

For example instead of saying “walk one foot in front of the other” to work on balance, I simply said to “walk along the green line”. Without requiring any other cuing, he simply looked at the green line and walked on it. Visual targets are my absolute favourite thing and they help sessions flow along so much easier.

Same with working on things like “right” and “left”. Sometimes they aren’t sure which is right and which is left. So…we adapt. Instead I said, “lift the toes on the blue circle” and “lift the heel on the red circle”. Boom. So much simpler.

Simplicity is great for all, the trainer trying to teach the client, and the client trying to follow instructions.

Patience, multiple demos and simplicity are such key pieces that allow clients with cognitive challenges to succeed. 🙌 👏

03/14/2025

Rainbow/ 5 Senses/Eyes Wide Open Walks ☀️🌈 🌳

Walking with someone with Alzheimer’s, Dementia or other cognitive difficulty is a fantastic way to help brain health. 🧠 However, they may struggle to find words, contribute to a conversation, follow conversations when spoken to, or simply get confused.

Now, walking and talking is SO good for the brain (yay dual tasking), so here’s some ways to chit chat on your walks that is easier than a formal conversation.

1. Rainbow Walk 🌈 - try finding objects of all colours of the rainbow. Point out various colours you see along the way. You’d be surprised how many things you can spot when you’re on the look out. Except this time of year my client referred to the grass colour as “drab green” 😂. So we’ll hope for brighter greens as spring comes along.

2. Senses Walk ☀️
- how does the sun feel on your skin?
- do you hear the birds?
- wow it’s windy out today, feel the breeze?
- can you smell those flowers?
- can you see any lines up in the clouds today? (My client especially liked the ones that criss-crossed ☁️ )
- how soft is this golden retriever? 🫶

Using our senses is the easiest way to find little things to talk about, is more simple to follow and is something anyone can do.

There are so many things that go unnoticed on a walk around the block until you make a point of paying attention to the little things.

Ideas like this make walks more enjoyable for all parties. Instead of asking questions that your loved one may not know the answer to, or may have forgotten (like what they had for lunch), try these tricks to help with chit chat instead.

My favourite from today was finding the “Halifax” street sign and chatting with my client about how much she loved growing up out east.

03/04/2025

🖐️ Hand Fitness for PD 👋

I have a few clients who have been noticing changes with mobility, strength and overall dexterity in their hands, wrists and forearms. Fine motor skills like doing/undoing buttons/zippers, tying shoe laces, holding cutlery, picking up puzzle pieces etc can pose as a challenge for some people living with PD.

By giving them a little bag of tricks, it allows them to work on their skills outside of their personal training sessions.

We’ve been testing out some new exercises with varying levels of resistance using elastics, clothes pins, and our newest team member; thera-putty (which I joked with my client today was also known as adult play-dough).

Often during training sessions I love to work the little muscles and joints at the end (once they’ve worked hard on their walking, balance and strength exercises). It reminds us that even the little muscles and joints need love and attention too! 🙌 My client (and his wife) were excited to have a tool kit to keep to use throughout the week.

02/12/2025

✨Teamwork Makes the BODY Work ✨

I have the pleasure of working with so many wonderful healthcare providers that allow for our clients to access the best care possible.

One of the coolest aspects of my career so far has been the ability to network with other health professionals, refer clients back and forth and work together to help serve our shared clients better. Services like physiotherapy, massage therapy, chiropractic care, osteopathy and exercise go hand in hand. They often work better together.

Clients are usually prescribed exercises/areas to stretch/strengthen/move more between therapeutic sessions right?

Cue trainers and exercise professionals to help facilitate this. 💪🏻 🙌 We have a valuable role to play and I’m thrilled when fitness professionals like myself get a seat at the “Health Team” table.

It’s been great to be able to chat with other practitioners about our shared clients, be on the same page regarding goals/needs/focuses and have the client reap the benefits. During my assessments with new clients I always ask if they’re working with anyone else and if they give permission for us to collaborate together.

I’m grateful for the spot I’ve built for myself and for the fantastic health professionals I’ve been fortunate enough to collaborate with. ✨🙌

02/08/2025

Most of my clients have a good laugh when they see the mixed bag of tricks I bring to each in-home session. They just never know what I’m going to take out next. I joke that my equipment bag is like the Mary Poppins bag.

This week’s newest addition was coloured number circles. Listed online for teachers to use as carpet spots for students.

Who knew they could also make great personal training equipment?! 💪🏻

I did. ✨

We worked on moving our feet to specific targets (a number, a letter, a colour…or mixed together to require the client to work on dual tasking).

For example, one combo we tried ➡️ I said a colour, the client tapped their foot to that colour, told me what the number of that colour was x 3 AND gave me a word that started with the corresponding letter.

Moving their body + responding to colour instructions + math + words = lots to think about. 🤔 🧠 BUT this is what helps us build new neural pathways in our brain and create brain change.

My clients are very good sports though, they try anything I throw their way…usually with a smile and a laugh or two. 🤭

12/10/2024

Simple things can help the brain thrive. 🧠✨

Here’s our list from today:

✅ change of scenery - go this lovely lady out of her residence room and into a different part of the building
✅ exercise - recumbent bikes are great for the heart, lungs, hips, knees and leg muscles 💓
✅ music - of course we sang, snapped our fingers and danced to Queen & ABBA 🎶
✅ human connection - my client lit up when I came to see her because she knew i was going to take her on some kind of adventure 🙃
✅ visual aids - we used “Bike the World” on YouTube to pretend we were biking in different countries. Thank you iPad! 🏞️
✅ talking - we talked, told stories, shared past memories and chatted about her favourite place - Sussex NewBrunswick (where she grew up).

So many things that seem small and unimportant, but for the brain health of clients like mine, it has SUCH an impact. ☀️

11/28/2024

At the end of the day, we’re all humans and we all deserve simple joys like connection, fresh air, sunshine and movement. ☀️ I’m so glad when we’re able to achieve all of these from one smiley session to the next.

I’ll be forever grateful for my dear clients, the families that trust me with their loved ones, and for the relationships I build along the way.

11/22/2024

Hi 👋 I’m Erin, the heart and soul behind WiseMoves Kingston. There are some new faces popping up on my feed so I wanted to re-introduce myself.

Put simply, I truly love my job and have incredible passion for what I do. My goal is quality of life, and helping my clients achieve the highest level of it possible through exercise training.

WiseMoves Kingston has grown and evolved so much over the years. I started teaching lots of weekly classes (specifically 65+), and trained the odd client. Now, flash forward almost 6 years, I spend most of my days 1-1 with clients doing in-home personal training, with a few group classes sprinkled in.

I absolutely love learning and doing courses to work with different populations. It’s like I’m constantly in school, but learning subjects I like, choose thoughtfully, enjoy and will put to good use.

My career has slowly shifted to underserved populations and to those who can’t always walk into a gym and get the care they need, let alone be able to travel to a gym.

Here’s a glimpse into some of the humans I work with on a weekly basis and some of the challenges we face together as a team:

🔹 Alzheimer’s Disease & Dementia
🔹 Parkinson’s Disease
🔹 Cancer
🔹 Pre/Post Hip & Knee Replacement
🔹 TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury)
🔹 Post Stroke
🔹 Spinal Stenosis
🔹 Osteoporosis & Osteoarthritis
🔹 Arthritis
🔹 Individuals ages 65+ simply wanting to remain active and strong 💪🏻

My days are never the same. I never get bored. I don’t sit at a desk all day. My days are filled with human connection, exercise training for life and positive energy. I’m so grateful for the path I’m on.

Oh, and sometimes I go to a park with my good pal who helps take business photos for posts like these! 📸 🫶👏

If you’d like to connect or chat feel free to send a message or check out my website in my bio! ✨

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