AARP Colorado

Certified fitness instructor Shauni Hawkins leads us in virtual low-impact cardio and strength-training classes. Let’s get your heart rate up with low-impact aerobic exercises, and add strength and balance training for a fun and sweaty full body workout! We’ll finish with an energizing stretch so you’re ready to tackle the rest of your day.

Join us for a mobility practice, essential to improving strength, stamina and flexibility, led by certified instructor, Denise Dohanic. Mobility increases blood flow to the muscles and is a critical aspect of function that affects overall quality of life. Learn how to increase your range of motion, relieve tight muscles, ensure good posture and athletic form, and even prevent injury.

Join AARP Colorado for a virtual low-impact kickboxing class in the comfort of your own home, led by certified fitness instructor Krista Bonino. This kickboxing class is designed to boost your fitness, enhance your mental stamina and leave you feeling empowered. Krista guides us in low-impact cardio workouts that combine the best of martial arts, strength training and brain-boosting exercises, all important to healthy aging.

Join certified fitness instructor Shauni Hawkins for a fun virtual Barre Fusion class incorporating aspects of ballet, Pilates, yoga and strength training. The class will combine small, isolated movements with larger ranges of motion for a high-intensity, low-impact workout to improve muscle endurance, core strength, posture, balance and flexibility.

Certified fitness instructor Krista Bonino leads this functional fitness training program that works your entire body. These strength exercises will target the basic movements of daily life: pushing, pulling, squatting, hinging, lunging and rotation. For this workout, all you need is your own body weight and a little room to move. You’ll engage your core, challenge your balance and try out different ways to “Get After It!”

In a major victory for consumers, the Colorado Public Utilities Commission (PUC) lowered Xcel’s return on equity (ROE) from its current 9.83 percent to 9.3 percent effective January 1, 2020, based on the position of AARP and other interveners in the company’s latest electric rate case.

Lowering prescription drug costs, more oversight for public utilities and affordable housing are also on AARP's legislative agenda.

AARP CO would like to inform you of volunteer opportunities with St. Vrain Habitat for Humanity. Join Habitat for Humanity as they build homes, community and hope. They have served families living and working in the St. Vrain Valley and Estes Park for 30 years; building over 100 new homes and completing more than 35 critical repairs. In the next decade, they want to double thier impact, completing another 100 new homes and 50 repairs. Join St. Vrain Habitat as they help hard-working, low income households build strength, stability and self-reliance through shelter.

A.W. Schnellbacher is AARP Colorado's lead volunteer advocate on healthcare

AARP Colorado and the AARP Colorado Advocacy team of volunteers want you to get to know what advocacy is all about at AARP