FITFUSION

Welcome to the most unique well-rounded fitness program for kids. FitFusion develops and uses curriculum that allows every child to succeed and offers a caring and knowledgeable staff. FitFusion is a combined functional exercise program combined with Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. The program was designed and is run by Dr. Gina Marie Capaldo.

Children will gain knowledge of eating healthy, fitness, improve balance and coordination, build strength, and confidence and increase self-esteem.

Curriculum:

All classes are 45 minutes, and include education lectures on living a healthy lifestyle.

Education: Diet * Living a Healthy Lifestyle

Lectures on proper nutrition designed to incorporate family healthy lifestyle behaviors into lifelong habits and routines. Wellness is more than absence of disease symptoms but also a balance of physical, mental and social well-being.

Working with children, their families and peers together creates a sense of belonging and a feeling of being a part of a healthy like-minded community. Our children are our future and understanding and supporting them to learn lead healthy lifestyles gives them a gift that will endure throughout their lives.

Fitness: Cardio * Strength * Flexibility/Yoga

We help facilitate a child’s age-appropriate gross motor skills to improve muscle flexibility, muscle strength, and balance and coordination and body awareness.

Participation in FitFusion improves overall physical fitness, muscle flexibility, balance and coordination, endurance, motor planning, body awareness, self-discipline, and allows children to learn the importance of teamwork. A sedentary lifestyle in young people can have negative have consequences both now and later.

Yoga enhances flexibility, strength coordination, and body awareness. In addition, concentration and sense of calmness and relaxation improves. Yoga helps children learn techniques for self-health, relaxation, and inner fulfillment; they can handle life’s challenges with a little more ease. Yoga at an early age encourages self-esteem and body awareness incorporated in to a physical activity. Yoga develops cooperation and compassion-instead of opposition-creating inner peace within our children.

Sensory Integration: Body * Mind

Sensory Integration is the ability to take in information through senses (touch, movement, smell, taste, vision, and hearing), to put it together with prior information, memories, and knowledge stored in the brain, and to make meaningful response. Some children do not integrate sensory input and organize it appropriately. This dysfunction may result in varying degrees of problems in development, information and processing behavior. FitFusion offers an innovative approach to sensory integration. We combine proprioceptive input deep pressure, heavy work and vestibular input all within our program in order to balance the sensory system.

Dr. Gina Maria Capaldo:

Dr. Capaldo holds a B.A. in Psychology from New York University, a Masters in Occupational Therapy from Thomas Jefferson Medical College and a Doctorate in Occupational Therapy specializing in Nutrition and Exercise for Healthy Living from Temple University.