This was the 6th and final week our intervention was put into place. This week we hoped to receive very positive results on our clients progress and to help him reach his long term goal. Dennis has completed the set exercises as well as his usual activities and has answered our reflection questions below.
Overview of week 5
Monday: Jogging for 60 minutes at 80%
Tuesday: 30 minute PT session and 15 minutes on Cross Trainer at level 10.
Wednesday: 60 minute walk along waterfront at Redcliffe. Vacuum and wash floors at Unit for 1 hour.
Thursday: Travel to Farm. Repair pump cover, service bee hive, go for Walk up to excavator and back 40 minutes, 20 minutes uphill.
Friday: Walk to back paddock down hill 45 minutes then walk back all uphill 50 minutes, very strenuous.
Saturday: Drive to Coonabarabran, go walking at Coonabarabran exploring the town for 90 minutes.
Client Feedback
Q1. How intense was the workout? (rate 1-10)
A. ‘Workout was different due to us going away however we managed to do a reasonable amount of exercise.’
Q.2 Are there any changes we need to make to the program?
A. ‘ The program has been great, thank you.’
Q.3 Has this program effected your mental health?
A. ‘My mental health is good. The program has been very positive.’
Q.4 How do you think you have progressed throughout the week?
A. ‘I believe my fitness level has improved each week.’
Q.5 What did you do in the 30 minutes of activity of your choice? Would you like to continue on with this for the following weeks?
A. ‘Activity of my own choice was exploring Coonabarabran’
Q6. How did our set walking/jogging/running sessions go?
A. ‘Walking and Jogging were beneficial, helped my stiffness in particular.’
Q7. Did you miss a training session this week? How do you think your mental health has been effected by this?
A. ‘I haven’t missed any sessions completely just substituted different activities.’
Q8. Have you seen various changes to your mental health and do you feel as though you are making progress each week?
A. ‘Now that the program is finished I intend to keep doing a similar level of exercise each week going forward.’
Reflection
This week we have got very positive feedback from our client. Our client seems very happy that our intervention has finished however he has found the exercise very good for his fitness as well as his mental health. Our intervention turned out to be very successful, and both our client and ourselves are very happy with the results.
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