Adding years to life and life to years
Exercise and keeping fit is not just about training to run marathons or starring for your local football team. More than anything exercise is required to promote, maintain and improve your health.
It is well accepted that exercise is an essential strategy in the prevention and management of many diseases. Type 2 Diabetes, Chronic obstructive airways disease, Chronic back pain are examples of conditions that will be influenced by exercise.
How do we convince people that exercise will improve the quality of their lives?
Optima-life using Firstbeat HEALTH produces a report that clearly demonstrates the health promoting benefits of activity and exercise. The report is ideal for motivating and encouraging inactive people to exercise and provides information relating to cardiopulmonary health risk.
The health promoting report will show both the practitioner and the client a summary of the exercise that has been performed...
...and scores this against averaged data for a person of similar age, sex, weight and height. The object is to personalise the information ensuring it is relevant to you.
The Health Promoting Physical Activity report also includes a risk matrix that is designed to demonstrate whether an exercise performed has any increased risk of injury or excessive demand on the cardiopulmonary system. Many clients may be fearful of exercise so this particular chart can be used to demonstrate the risk levels.
Benefits to the Practitioner
- make an evaluation of health promoting exercise being undertaken
- show the patient how they compare to the “average”
- plan a focused physical activity programme
- set target goals
- ensure that your patient is exercising within a safe range and with minimal risk
- demonstrate progress or lack of it
Benefits to the Patient
- see a visual representation of your physical activity
- receive clear statements as to the activity undertaken and whether it is having a health promoting effect or not
- see a health index chart showing the effect of your physical activity
- check whether the exercise you performed was sufficient simply to promote a health benefit
For anyone individual looking to train at a more demanding level follow this link: Developing Fitness
