How can we get adults to feel comfortable letting go and just “play” again?
It is up to us as trainers to make it fun. I build games into my workouts to do this as appropriate for their abilities. As an example I do partner training and do fun partners games making it competitive for them. They love competing with a friend they are comfortable with. As an example I use hula hoops as a warm up and do contests just to have fun, but there are many examples. I even give out stickers and little toys I get at the dollar stores and they get really excited just like kids!! We have to keep it fun and light so they let go. It works-)