Oswestry gym with wellbeing focus welcomes lottery boost
The 12 lesson online Movement for Mental Health programme, which has received the lottery support, focuses on six basic movements designed to boost mental health.Mr Braddock said: "Our tagline is movement for mental health."We're interested in is the benefits of exercise on mental health, which sort of everybody knows about, but the question is how do you do it."For somebody who might be struggling with mental illness or poor mental health, how do they go about starting to exercise? What do they do? Who with? Where?"
'A sense of relief'
"As long as you've got a couple of metres square, or a garden, or a space where you feel comfortable to be in, you can start moving," Ms Hazell-Watkins said.People could try a set of 10 squats just by sitting on a chair and getting back up again, or go for a walk 10 times around their garden," she added."A private space, no special clothes and anything that puts a little bit of demand on your body is a good start," she said.
Imogen, who uses to Soma Space, had always been nervous of going to a gym because she thought it would be "full of people who were super fit and super strong and I didn't consider myself to be one of those people".She said her nerves soon evaporated, adding: "It's helped me certainly with low moods and feeling depressed... When I leave there I feel a sense of relief. I just feel calmer and more at ease."
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