I am grateful to you and the NHS for the opportunity I had and am still benefiting from.
I fully recommend the GP referral exercise scheme I undertook in the Autumn at Westlands gym.
I had previously enjoyed the Aspire gym programme in Yeovil hospital offered to me after my stroke in October 2023. When that finished I missed both the discipline of attending a weekly session and the camaraderie of working out in the company of others under the watchful eye of trained and helpful staff.
I clearly benefited physically with the weight loss it brought me, and the marked reduction in my blood pressure at the end of the programme. But it also was helpful psychologically as I felt much more optimistic about my continued recovery and my future life.
I had never been into a gym in my life before the challenge that a stroke brings. Now, I wouldn't be without one!
I fully recommend the GP referral exercise scheme I undertook in the Autumn at Westlands gym.
I had previously enjoyed the Aspire gym programme in Yeovil hospital offered to me after my stroke in October 2023. When that finished I missed both the discipline of attending a weekly session and the camaraderie of working out in the company of others under the watchful eye of trained and helpful staff.
I clearly benefited physically with the weight loss it brought me, and the marked reduction in my blood pressure at the end of the programme. But it also was helpful psychologically as I felt much more optimistic about my continued recovery and my future life.
I had never been into a gym in my life before the challenge that a stroke brings. Now, I wouldn't be without one!
