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The Initial Consultation
The first session is a free of charge health screening and goal setting meeting. You will not be required to do any exercise during this consultation.
Screening
You will be required to complete Pre-Exercise, Lifestyle and Stress Questionaires in order for us to prescribe a safe and effective exercise programme. (If we feel there is any reason why you should not commence an exercise programme you will be given a form for your Doctor to confirm whether it is appropriate for you to start a specified exercise programme).
Goal-setting
The screening process will indicate a clear idea of the type of goals that you wish to achieve from your exercise programme. These may be as varied as losing a few pounds for a wedding, getting in shape after childbirth, running a marathon, or decreasing stress levels to reducing the threat of coronary heart disease. From this we can draw up short, medium and long-term goals that we can measure, monitor and alter as appropriate.
Basic Fitness Tests
In order to ascertain the correct exercise level, and to establish some benchmark figures against which goals can be set we will then take some basic fitness measures. Depending on your goals these can include:
• Weight
• Resting Heart Rate
• Blood Pressure
• Body Composition
• Body Mass Index Rating
• Body Fat Distribution
And then........
After the initial consultation the next session is usually taken up with more active fitness tests used for benchmarking and measuring your progress (don't worry there will not be anything too strenuous or beyond your ability - they are scientifically designed for all levels).
Based on these two sessions your Personal Exercise Programme will be written up and will begin in earnest.
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