Before starting the Active Lives programme at Crewe Lifestyle Centre, Carol shared her health and fitness wasn’t very good, rating it 4/10, especially with pain in her legs and needing to take a walking stick around with her everywhere.
Now she has better movement, less pain and hasn’t used her stick in the last month! Lowered her blood pressure, reduced her weight and waist size and increased her physical activity time. Carol has continued as a member so she can continue to keep active and improve on her health and fitness.
Here’s Carol and Health and Fitness Specialist Instructor Holly to tell you more:
We asked Carol what her health and fitness was like before starting the programme and she said:
“Before starting the programme, it wasn’t very good, especially with pain in my legs, I needed to take a walking stick around with me everywhere, I would have rated my health and fitness as 4/10.
Now it is only occasionally that I struggle as I did before, I can move better, I haven’t used my stick in the last month. I can get up and down the stairs better and I can move around with less pain than before.”
“Using the pool and gym is what I have enjoyed the most, the support was very good, especially off Holly. I wanted to join the programme to help me to be able to move around better and get stronger, reduce my pain, lose weight and help me to manage my blood pressure.”
Carols coach Holly shares
“Carol has done amazingly well with improving her health and fitness. Because of her mobility and pain due to her arthritis, she was doing very little exercise when we first met, we slowly worked at increasing her activity levels and strength to help support her joints. Because of this she was then able to improve her walking times and improve her step ups.
She has managed to lower her blood pressure, reduce her weight and waist size, reduce her pain and increase her physical activity time. Well done Carol for not giving up and persevering with the programme. Keep up the hard work”
If you would like to find out more about our Active Lives programme, please click here or contact the team on 0300 123 5026 or email [email protected]