BHC Dumfries and Lower Nithsdale: Heart and Soul

Thursday, 9 October 2014

Heart and Soul

A Building Healthy Communities and Dumfries and Galloway College Partnership

A new initiative is in the process of being set up by Building Healthy Communities in partnership with Dumfries and Galloway College. This initiative is aimed at overweight men over the age of 45.

Heart and Soul will comprise a cardio workout and Tai Chi for Health and Wellbeing. The cardio workout will be personalised for each participant and will take place in the state of the art gym at the college – this group will have exclusive use of the gym for these sessions. Tai Chi for Health will also be offered as part of this package and this will be led by fully trained Building Healthy Communities’ Tai Chi instructors.

This is a tremendous opportunity and anyone interested should contact me (helenmackintosh1@nhs.net) as soon as possible to secure a place as spaces are limited.

Please note that this service is offered completely free of charge.

A brief outline of what will be offered by PVG checked 2^nd year HND students: -

Applied Nutrition and Health Assessment
Fitness Assessment and Diagnostic Testing
Applied Exercise Prescription for Special Population Groups
Plan, Teach and Evaluate a Physical Activity Programme to Meet the Needs of Older Adults

Ideally we are looking to work with clients with at least one of the following conditions:

Coronary heart disease
Stroke
Obesity
Diabetes (Type I or II)
Osteoporosis
Hypertension
High cholesterol
Food allergies and/or intoleerances

The course will consist of: -

Introductory meetings to get to know the client
Detailed health and lifestyle assessment
Static and dymanic fitness tests suitable to the client
Health related fitness tests
Written feedback and comparison of results to normative data
Plan to carry out a nutritional assessment with the client
Complete a week long food diary
Analyse the results and interpret nutritional feedback to the client
Prescribe nutritional advice to clients
Prepare and deliver an exercise session suitibler for the client
The aim for 2015/2016 is to prepare and deliver a 12 week exercise programme for a selected individual

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Dumfries and Lower Nithsdale Blogpage

Welcome to Building Healthy Communities Dumfries and Lower Nithsdale Blog

Our new Blog has been developed by Luke Utting who is a volunteer for BHC Machars. We are very grateful to Luke for all his hard work and opening a new pathway which will enable BHC to feedback and communicate with communities and wide a range of Partners.

Please take the time to explore our blog and feel free to get in touch with any suggestions, contributions or you may see the blog as an opportunity to promote your own community programmes/projects and activities

Paul McGregor - Chairperson

My Name is Paul McGregor and I am delighted to have this opportunity to introduce myself. I have recently taken up the position of Chair within BHC Dumfries and Lower Nithsdale Area Partnership and over the last few weeks much of my time has been spent familiarising myself with the staff and a whole range of other areas of BHC. We are currently living in a ‘time’ where we are all experiencing ‘change’ in many different ways and Building Healthy Communities is no exception so with this in mind and with the support of staff it is our intention to re-establish and restructure the BHC Dumfries and Lower Nithsdale Area Partnership. BHC Dumfries and Lower Nithsdale are therefore keen to invite members of the community who are interested in supporting Building Healthy Communities by joining us for an Induction throughout the month of November 2013 where there will be an opportunity at the end of the induction to decide whether to join as a member of the Area Partnership and continue to build and create new opportunities for our communities. If you or you know of someone who would like join us initially for the Induction process or more information is required please contact any member of the staff team and they will be able to assist with your enquiry and arrange for us to get together for a chance to discuss further.

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Thursday, 9 October 2014

Heart and Soul

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