Welcome back and
thank you for continuing to watch our workout series
on how to much you develop and implement exercise programs for individuals
with autism I am very thrilled that
Mr. Anthony was willing to join and educate everyone
about some of the exercise routines he's done
for the past now I think four years almost?
I think it was more than that. Yeah or maybe it is
when when I first met Anthony he was about
this big and I actually used to have to lift him up to the
pull up bars now he clearly has no issues reaching those putt-up bars. Nope
Why don't you tell them a little bit about you
Well I got my first job I'm a baggar and Marianos
It's not easy but once you get the hang of it it just goes like that
Yes and exercise that we started doing this how did that help you at your job
at Marianos? It got me a little more focused, it got me a little more
hand hand coordination with bags and moving things
in and out it got me a lot more
What else? What do we always talk about?
muscles, triceps. Yeah!
so Anthony um he has Aspergers
but we don't let that define who he is
and he also is diagnosed with having osteoporosis so
some of the exercises we're gonna show you
are you gonna see how it's helped him improve his bone density
by using dumbbells but there was one thing when I first met Anthony
that he had difficulty and that was tying his shoes
but out over time and breaking it down
and are really working actually with his mother
who's a physical therapist and we had gone over different processes to help
educate Anthony and help him do that so we're gonna show you that here in a second
but what we are learning from research in regards to
exercise and in the autism community is maybe to do
not maybe but do a
big gross motor activity
and then move to a fine motor or
go from a fine motor activity and then to a gross motor
and we're gonna show you and that routine, so we're gonna start with
tying the shoes in breaking it down and how
Anthony was able to it. Alright so
Anthony you want to take everyone through this? Yes sir
alright so we started with two different color ropes
tied together, again visually helping children or adults
understand the two different sides of the laces
and why don't you talk them through what you're doing there
Right now I am it's going to be basically
how you're gonna tie your shoes at some point when your kids get older they're gonna have to tying their own
Shoes
and so we practice this for a while
and what we would do is-Anthony's a pro now
but he would do this and sometimes it was difficult
but then I would not focus on
just repetitive repetitive exercise or tying of shoes
we would try it and if he didn't get it fine if you got it even better
but then we would move to an exercise to take his mind off of it
and then go back to trying to tie the shoes
but we're just gonna continue to show how we broke it down
so he should you with two different ropes very big thick ropes
because a lot of our children have tough fine motor coordination
or challenges with their fine motor coordination
so after he was successful at that
then we broke it down further and did
regular shoe laces two different colors
and had him try that way
It's still the same. You just got to have the right
focus and confidence that you can tie your own shoes. Very good And you're right it was skills
developing skills, that's awesome
so again clearly no problem and
just so you know this didn't happen overnight and this took time
weeks for him to get to but that was excellent Anthony
and then after we were doing that, once we untie
What are you tying like four knots now?
Look at you! Double knots, nice
I need to start doing that when I'm running
sometimes mine come undone. Want me to help you there? You got it
I got it. Apparently Dave here doesn't know how to double knot every day
but that's okay not a lot other people just don't know how to tie their own shoes
You can teach me tha right? Yes I can. Alright thank you
Alright so again just to review two different colour
ropes two different color laces and now you can see
Anthony is just doing it
on his shoes same color, excellent
and this could be a huge confidence-builder
for some of your students some of your children. Nice job bud
alright so as I said we would do this
and go to an exercise and I'm going to pair it with a large gross motor activity
call the stability ball dumbbell press. Alright. Yeah
So why don't you you come here sit right there?
Actually Anthony these are pretty light
for you alright so
this is advanced and we'll continue to show you other workouts in
things with Anthony and other adults and kids
but this was something that he was building confidence and this again didn't
this took some time for him to develop this strength, this coordination
but he is getting abdominal work muscular fitness
he's concentrating and he's improving that bone density as well
so, how many is that? You don't know
and actually when we're in his basement doing things he can do up to 20 pounds
on each side which is
absolutely amazing because when we started it was what? Five pounds
Yes, nice job, go ahead and relax, come back
Nice job buddy. So just to review
if you're teaching your children your students fine motor
activity to gross motor, or gross motor to fine motor
and it doesn't have to just be shoe tying it can be
handwriting any type of fine motor work that you're doing with your kids
You got anything else you want to tell them? Just one more thing
If you're a person that does not have or
anything that could be useful
you know who to call. Alright call us we want to help you
and give you more information or best yet if you guys learn something that we're
not teaching you
share it with us so we will see you next time and again
remember always challenge challenge artisan with exercise