@debkincaid - I went to the Somerset NJ , to view the program and talk with Claudia Tomas. She is a very smart, dedicated and motivated women with lots of education behind her and she’s still training. Currently to become a Nurse Practitioner as that she says is the last degree she’d need to achieve her dream of opening a facility for osteoporosis. We discussed where I was at, I brought pertinent records with me , DEXA’s , my X-ray and MRI reports of my L -1 fractured , she looked at the supplements I was using and she did an assessment of sorts to see what ROM range of motion I had in certain joints and what my level of strength was. Discussed how to breathe correctly as you exercise and did a bit of that while doing push ups, etc. Gave me a few exercises to do to improve a few things . After that I observed the Onero class in session. It’s based on 4 exercises that I’m not going to share here cause even Belinda Beck didn’t because she didn’t want people to start doing them on their own without supervision. But the theory is you begin where you are at with your level of strength and slowly the resistance used goes up and becomes quite heavy- what you can handle. . The exercises are done for 5 reps , 5 sets . The class size was about 6-7 people and Claudia and another professional was constantly guarding and watching for proper position of the back and breathing so no one was attempting the exercises in an unsafe manner. Claudia also has beefed up the program and has added other resistance type exercises and balance to augment the basic Onero program.
It was worth it to me to make the trip to see it with my own eyes. I’m very glad I went!!! Hope that helps!!!