Creating the Intervention

Our overall plan is to implant a six week health intervention on physical health, to help improve the amount of physical activity in Dennis’s life. At the start of the intervention we will introduce fast pace walking for around 20 minutes that will gradually increase each each week. As we get later into the intervention, the fast pace walking will change to a light jog. On some days of the week Dennis will go to a gym class such as water aerobics. On Tuesday, Dennis goes to half an hour gym session lead by a personal trainer. On Wednesday and Thursday, he plays golf for around two to three hours.

The 6 week health intervention program will be constructed in the form of a training program. The training program will have the number of the week (1-6) and and the days in which the program will take place on. Under each of the days it will have the activity or exercise to be completed for that day. On either Saturday or Sunday Dennis will take part in a gym class of his choice. In his weekly reflections Dennis will let us know what gym class he chose and how he thinks it went.

We have obtained medical advice and information through our research making it safe for men over 70 years of age. As older men can have a limit as to how much physical exercise they can consume in a day.

Dennis is alright with us sharing his journey and progress on our blog. That way Dennis can also see his progress as the weeks go on.

Yes, we have had our intervention seen by a teacher to check for suitability and safety as our training program is eligible for our client to take part in.

Intervention- weekly training programs

This is the training program as how it is originally set. There will be changes made to this each week that you will see under the week 1-6 blog posts.

DAY	MON	TUES	WED	THUR	FRI	SAT/SUN
WEEK 1	X	½ hour PT session	Golf	Golf	Fast paced walk @ 80% for 20 mins	Gym class
WEEK 2	Fast paced walk @ 80% for 30 mins	½ hour PT session	Golf	Golf	5 min jogging/ walking intervals x 2 (total 20 min)	Gym class
WEEK 3	5 min jogging/ walking intervals x 2 (total 20 min)	½ hour PT session	Golf	Golf	10 min jog, 5 min run x 2 (total 30 min)	Gym class
WEEK 4	10 min jog, 5 min run x 2 (total 30 min)	½ hour PT session	Golf	Golf	jogging @ 60% for 20 mins	Gym class
WEEK 5	jogging @ 60% for 20 mins	½ hour PT session	Golf	Golf	jogging @ 60% for 20 mins	Gym class
WEEK 6	jogging @ 60% for 30 mins	½ hour PT session	Golf	Golf	jogging @ 60% for 30 mins	Gym class