Train Your Brain SC: Exercise for People With Mild-moderate Cognitive Impairments

In person Exercise Group (Columbia, SC:

The exercise program interventions will be individualized based on exercise history, and initial assessments by the primary investigator (a physical therapist). The program will focus on building up to 30 minutes of moderate intensity endurance activity and up to 30 minutes of strength training, balance training and mobility training. Participants will attend times per week for six months. Coaches will provide exercise plans, and monitor and provide feedback as participants exercise. Participants will wear a heart rate monitor to record exertion. Participants will be able to continuously attend as long as they are attending regularly.

Distance Exercise Group: (Sumter, SC) The exercise program interventions will be individualized based on exercise history, and initial assessments by the primary investigator (a physical therapist) which will occur in person. The program will focus on building up to 30 minutes of moderate intensity endurance activity and up to 30 minutes of strength training, balance training and mobility training. Participants will exercise on their own 2 x a week for 6 months. Coaches will prescribe an exercise program that can be performed at a local fitness facility and it will be shared through a coaching software or paper log. Participants will have in-person fading personal trainer support for 7 visits in the first 12-weeks. Participants will be responsible for completing the remaining workouts on their own. Participants will log their exercises either in the coaching software or in paper formats, have weekly check-ins with fitness center coaches and have options to message the fitness center coaches with questions. Participants who do not log any activity and miss weekly check-ins will have follow up from fitness center coaches.