Personal Home Programs

Exercise prescriptions are accommodated for within the Health Coaching sessions.

Working with this biochemistry it is clear where the clients' current immune system and energy capabilites are.

Getting to know during their coaching sessions - what their current mobility level and interests are - movement/exercise suggestions are then included as part of the coaching as requested.

Taking all of this information into consideration, exercises are able to be defined as appropriate for each person, and changed over time as health challenges shift and improvements are gained.

More often than not, I find I am coaching people to allow themselves to include rest to give their bodies time to heal - rather than rush out and commence a full-on exercise regime. There is a place and a time for everything.

PROGRAM OPTIONS

1. Return to Movement

Programming for individuals currently with restricted movement and therefore activity participation. These sessions deal specifically with the individuals' current capabilities and aim for improvements for return to movement - to enable the client to carry out tasks around the home as well as gain mobility improvements for outside of the home. Programming takes into consideration exercises and routines that will enhance general health conditioning and minimise injury from everyday activites.

2. Movement Education

Terrie started coaching movement education with 4 – 6yr olds in 1986. After working with adults in recent years who had regained their tissue health, it was clear that people who regain function get benefit from a similar learning to what she was pointing to for the young children - which is to introduce the client to what the body is capable of doing and how to use this safely without injury.

For example: one client regained his energy and muscle strength and started to get more involved in physical activities that he enjoyed which were gardening, cooking and along with this his enthusiasm to finish decorating (including rearranging) his house.

Having a memory of what he previously could do with a strong and energetic body it was easy for him to decide to take on too much too soon without preparing his body to handle this effort. Movement education assisted him understand that he needed to redevelop motor patterns, understand that the actions his body was now trained to do were more sedentary than his mind was expecting his body to accomplish. This ‘return to activity’ period can feel like a ‘no-man’s land’ where a person’s body is not capable of what it used to be able to do, but the feeling of wellbeing suggests it can. A few simple learnings and personalised exercise prescription can bridge this gap minimising potential injury and working towards ‘getting the most out of your day’ conducting activities you enjoy.

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3. Functional Movement Education

This continues on from Movement Education to fine tune the bodies’ capabilities to enable more everyday activities to be carried out. E.g relatives visit with young children and you can still play chasey around the lounge;

4. Leisure Activity

As it states – to enable an individual to join in leisure activities without concern that they will compromise their musculo-skeletal system. Leisure activities can be choosing to spend the day out with friends and know that you can enjoy the day with energy to spare for your daily regimes.

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Terrie customises her work to educate, encourage and program clients for introductory and beginning exercises. These establish a grounding for individuals to commence movement and exercise in and around the home. Once clients feel ready, then are then referred on to Exercise Scientists working in more advanced programming.
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5. Active Lifestyle

Adding activity into your day that is purposeful for maintaining cardiovascular health, muscle strength and flexibility. Daily ‘servicing’ of your human body for fitness and wellbeing which would include aerobic fitness activity, stretching and some strengthening exercises.

6. Energetic Lifestyle

For those wanting to be involved in activities that require a more fit and strong body – specific weekly training regime to ensure the body is ready and capable of carrying out involvement in these activities e.g. energetic recreational pursuits including kayaking, cycling, jogging, rock climbing, fun runs.

7. Competition Lifestyle

Competitive events and elite performance requires carefully structured programming to enable top results - and most importantly to enable a ‘healthy human performance’ - whilst seeking from your body continual improvements in aerobic capacity, strength, flexibility, motor patterns as required by the chosen sport.

Healthy Human Performance provides a coaching service for those interested in a strong and functional musculoskeletal system.