About Us
Welcome to the website of 'Activate Health' we are providers of numerous services to help improve, Health, fitness & overall wellbeing using various approaches. We specialise in looking after special needs populations.
We are constantly adding to, & updating our website so please visit on a regular basis.
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'Team Activate'
Company Profile
Tracey Oliver established Activate Health in 2005 as a result of being made redundant from the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) Exercise for Health Centre. It would have been easy to move to a main stream gym, but after working in the Hospital environment and making such a difference to so many people’s lives, it was important to continue trying to help and advise people that need a little more TLC and specialist knowledge. Encouraging positive lifestyle changes & advising on appropriate exercise has become a way of life.
Investing time in improving your general fitness is an essential requirement to increasing overall health & well-being. The thing that is different about Activate Health is that our passion is for improving general physical and mental well-being enabling people to achieve everyday chores and activities more easily, we’re not just catering for individuals training for a sport specific event. People from all walks of life with very different needs and abilities can successfully achieve their goals. You may want to play with the Grandchildren without getting out of breath or wish to feel confident and stable to be able to walk the dog again. You may wish to participate in a race for life event or need to be helped back to fitness from an injury. What ever your needs we can help to make a difference.
Some people feel intimidated or have misconceptions surrounding ’exercise’ particularly in a gym setting, your only experience of physical activity may be a negative one, but with appropriate advice and encouragement tailored for each individual successful changes with positive results can be achieved. What we have to remember here is that no one size fits all.
What Have We Been Up To?
Since setting up Activate Health we have been involved with pilot schemes for Falls and Injury Prevention for the Primary Care Trust (PCT) that have been successful with evaluations completed. These now run as an ongoing Falls Management Programmes in Ludlow with the Falls Practitioner & in Shrewsbury with Diagnostics Assessments & Access for Rehabilitation & Therapy team (DAART) with referrals from consultants and GP’s. These programmes have increased & now cater for more frail higher risk participants. It has also lead to preparing and delivering training sessions on assessment protocols for clinical staff.
We have worked as consultants for Telford & Wrekin PCT delivering education and activity programmes and running after school clubs within the Telford & Wrekin area.
Personal Training; we have numerous regular clients on the books, with some of this workload being for insurance claims via large companies such as Norwich Union.
A package of education and activity programmes have been produced & delivered to several groups of adults with learning disabilities within the Shropshire County area.
We have been invited to several community open days to give specialist advice & deliver fun activity sessions, and have prepared presentations & given talks on various health related topics to other local community groups.
'It's never to late to start adding years to life and life to years'
Memberships:
Register of Exercise Professionals (REPs) highest level (advanced level 3)
British Association for Cardiac Rehabilitation (BACR) Instructor Network
national register of personal trainers (nrpt)
British Gymnastics Association (BGA)
