The Active Living Motivation Course
The course consists of seven meetings over a twelve week period. The first six are regular weekly meetings, with the seventh being held during week twelve as an update and monitoring session.
Each session will be approximately two hours long and will be a mix of informal discussion and information.
The course will provide you with information on how much activity you should be doing, how to access suitable activities to meet your needs and what’s available to you in this city.
It will also help you understand how you can fit activity in to your life and give you the tools to make positive changes which will be lasting and effective.
The course is just the beginning; changing the way you live, eat and exercise is a very gradual process which will take from six months to a year to become embedded. That’s why we will be here to offer advice and encouragement at regular intervals after the course has finished. The course will focus on the planning stage and will contain very little actual activity during the sessions. Some clients may not be ready to move on to starting activity.
The course will cover:
- Introduction to activity – How much we should be doing?
- Barriers and motivators.
- What’s available and how do we find it?
- Diet, smoking and other factors.
- Activity and chronic health conditions.
- An activity taster session including a visit to some of the cities facilities.
- Activity diaries and goal setting.
Sessions will be tailored to meet the needs of the individuals present and all information collected about your condition will be kept confidential unless you chose to share it with the group.
Referral
Attendees should be:-
- Leading an inactive life style. *
- People whose BMI is greater than 30 regardless of activity levels.
- Clients at phase three or four of cardiac rehab.
*i.e. Taking less than 15 minutes of moderate intensity activity on 5 or fewer days per week. The inactivity should be having a negative effect on their health e.g. increased weight, high blood pressure, diabetes and other associated conditions such as depression and anxiety. Inactivity could be due to long term illness, weight problems, recent surgery or hospitalisation.
Referrals can be from a GP or other health care professional or by self referral. For more information on referrals please contact us.