Simone Schlitter has ants in her legs. At 88, the president of the Health-OK association? is in good shape and refuses to wait until the confinement on the sofa is over. It wants to maintain the link with its members and with the beneficiaries of the activities it offers.
“Every Thursday, I run gentle gym workshops for people in wheelchairs who reside at the Le Belvédère d’Algrange nursing home,” explains Simone. Except that she hasn’t seen them for several weeks. “And I miss them,” she says.
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Alone, facing the camera
The octogenarian does not get hung up. Unable to get out, she filmed herself at home, in Zoufftgen, giving a lesson. “It takes time to get on stage. Simone Schlitter managed on her own. Members of the association loaned him some equipment. She positioned herself facing the camera, against the wall, on a chair. “I put myself under the same conditions as the paralyzed people I am talking to,” she said.
Simone begins. The sound, the frame, the light are perfectible but the coach puts heart into it. Black spindle, hair band, she takes the time to greet the regulars, she punctuates her exercises with encouragement. She adapted the content to all seniors, more flexible, who wish to try stretching and other postures declined. Simone knows her subject, she also runs classes for the head and legs club in Thionville.
This astonishing “confined gym” teacher would also like to share her hour-long video, available on the Santé-OK? Site, with all interested establishments.
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“Residents need it”
Residents of the Le Belvédère nursing home in Algrange should test the video this week. “The idea is great,” smiles Vanessa Jacquemin, host. Precautionary measures will be taken to allow volunteers to follow the session in small groups. “This is a very popular course. They need it and they are waiting for it. “
Video accessible on the website of the Health-OK association?, Www.sante-ok.fr
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