Getting more Active & Improving your health
Last Updated: Thursday, 22 May 2025Getting more Active & Improving your health
Increasing our physical activity helps prevent many medical conditions including heart disease, diabetes, cancer and lung disease. Increasing physical activity also has a huge positive impact on our mental health. We know that as you increase your physical activity your stress levels reduce, your sleep improves, your memory improves and you tend to eat more nutritious food.
Did you know by increase your step count by just 500 a day reduces your risk of heart disease by 7%!
There are many ways to become more active please see below for links on resources that can help you become more active.
‘We are undefeatable’ – this is a free app where patients can access tailored exercise programmes which take into consideration there health problems https://weareundefeatable.co.uk/
‘Moving Medicine’ this is a website designed for healthcare professionals it gives advice on how to approach brining advice on physical activity into the consultation and also some helpful PDFS for pts https://movingmedicine.ac.uk/consultation-guides/patient-info-finder/
‘Good gym’ – where people help people and get fit as well- there is one in Liverpool https://www.goodgym.org/v3/areas/liverpool
‘Fit for Me’ a local organisation – patients can find out where specific activities are taking place in the city https://www.fitforme.info/activities/
‘Let’s Dance’ https://lets-dance.org.uk/ This has info on getting involved in dancing and where to start
Swim England have produced lots of fact sheets which answer questions patients might have if they are concerned about whether they can swim with their medical problems – each sheets addresses specific medial problems and the questions patients might have
https://www.swimming.org/swimengland/health-and-wellbeing/
They also have a pool finder where it will tell you your nearest pool and detail what facilities and activities are going on there.
Princes Park run is held every Saturday at 9am ( and you do not need to run!) you can walk, volunteer or just cheer others on. It has a great community spirit https://www.parkrun.org.uk/princes/. Members of the practice is planning to attend on Saturday 28th June why don’t you join us?
The Florrie is a community organisation which hold events just up the road from us on Mill Street https://www.theflorrie.org/whatwedo/communityhub/
If you would like a more tailored one to one approach please book into see our Health Trainer Chris Hall, who can offer 12 week programmes looking to improve different areas of your lifestyle to help improve your health.