health promotion
This section gives details of the specialist health promotion services we are able to provide.
Promoting healthy living
For your healthy lifestyle exercise timetable click on the file below.
Promoting healthy livingExercise Referral
The Exercise Referral Scheme is an introduction to physical activity scheme, which enables GP's and other health professionals to recommend a course of exercise for clients who would benefit from taking regular exercise.
It entitles you to join a 20-session activity programme at one of East Riding of Yorkshire Council's Sports and Leisure Centres. Throughout which you will have the help and guidance of a specially qualified exercise professional.
Exercise ReferralWhy Should I Exercise
Most people would agree that regular physical activity is good for you, but the majority of us don't do enough exercise to improve our health. Physical inactivity is equally as important as smoking cigarettes and an unhealthy diet in reducing chronic diseases. Adults who are physically active have a 20-30% reduced risk of premature death, and up to 50% reduced risk of developing the major chronic diseases e.g. CHD, stroke or cancer
What Are The Benefits Of Exercise?
Taking regular exercise can help to protect you against heart disease, help you loose weight, increase your strength, feel more energetic, cope with stress, feel better about yourself, get out of the house and make new friends.
How Do I Join?
If you want to know more about the Exercise Referral Scheme, ask your GP, practice nurse or health professional. If you are referred onto the scheme, you will be contacted by the exercise referral instructor to arrange your first session.
Cardiac Rehabilitation Scheme
HEARTlink is an advice and support service for cardiac patients offered in partnership with the East Riding and Hull Cardiac Rehabilitation Service and the British Heart Foundation.
HEARTlink sessions take place on a Wednesday and Friday afternoon. It combines a gentle exercise session where you can try different activities with advice and support to help your recovery.
Access to the sessions are by referral only. For further information please contact Angie Newlove, Cardiac Rehabilitation Service, telephone (01482) 672059.
Walking the Way to Health
The Walking the Way To Health scheme is a programme of guided walks to encourage people to take up walking as a way of keeping active and healthy.
The walks are a great way of meeting new people and making new friends.
The walks suit all ages and abilities and last about 1 hour.
Walks take place every first and third Friday of the month and leave from the sports centre at 10am.
For a full list of walks throughout the East Riding please download the PDF below.
Walking The Way To Health Programme 2010For further details of any of the walks in the East Riding please contact Laura Telfer on (01482) 392527.
A selection of views you can experience while walking with our group in the Pocklington Provincial area.
Weight Management Sessions
The Weight Management programme takes place twice
a week and consists of a short talk on a
different aspect of healthy eating each week, followed by
the opportunity to take part in a gentle exercise class to get
people back into taking regular exercise. The sessions are
aimed at people who would not normally see themselves
as using a leisure centre but who want to start eating more
healthily and taking regular exercise.