Exercise Prescription

Exercise ‘prescriptions’ or exercise guidelines are designed especially by our trainers for the patients and clients. Proper benefits from exercise can be achieved by consulting a trainer. Safety and efficiency are the two main reasons to get an exercise prescription designed for anyone.
 
An exercise program is required to be planned in detail for your health status, goals, abilities and interests. A professional instructor can help fit in the entire essential exercises into a simple plan that can be followed and adjusted as needed.
 
Exercise prescription generally denotes to the detailed plan of health related activities that are designed for a specified purpose. Massage Castle Hill delivers the best exercise prescriptions which are personalized according the patients and is easy-to-learn.
 
A general exercise prescription includes the following basics:

• Health Status Questionnaire / Physical Exam are done by trainer to determine health issue in order to limit your ability to exercise or require modifications to your program.
 
• Fitness Assessment and Evaluation establish is a baseline of your current fitness and help determine what sort of exercise you can safely perform.
 
• Exercise Type include a variety of exercises and a balanced routine to build core strength, endurance, flexibility and base fitness first and then become much more specific to your fitness goals.
 
• Cardiovascular Fitness exercises leads to improvements in the heart’s ability to pump blood through the body to the working muscles and improves overall cardiovascular health.
 
• Strength Training includes the core and all the major muscle groups in various combinations working against resistance and building strength, agility and balance.
 
• Frequency of Exercise is important in order to make safe, yet continued progress.
 
• Duration of Exercise depends upon your current fitness level and exercise history and can be increased from 10 minutes to 20 to 60 minutes about thrice a week.
 
• Intensity of Exercise is important as finding the right intensity and a balance between effort and rest is critical as every person responds differently to exercise.
 
• Exercise Session Order depends upon your training goals. All programs will begin with a warm up and end with a cool down and stretching.
 
• Exercise Progression is important to provide regular feedback and communicate openly with your trainer.
 
• Exercise Modifications are important to constantly change your routine, try new activities, take breaks, increase and decrease your time and intensity over the years.

Exercise prescription differs for all people due to the difference in age, physical restrictions or any other health problem. So, it is important to consult a trained Instructor before starting any exercise to get most of the benefit from it.