Fitness

Tony Carroll manages the fitness suite as well as providing the management of the physiotherapy requirements for members. On hand to deliver the latest up to date advice on fitness practice in the gym, or delivering his physiotherapy, massage, electrotherapy, or general advice on well being, he is the heart beat of the club.

Qualifications

Qualified to cater for the treatment of injuries and massage, Tony is a qualified remedial gymnast (a qualification available before physiotherapists became chartered), and this involved the maintenance and renewal of motor function, the exercise of wasted or weakened muscles and tendons, and generally getting injured people back on their feet again and into shape to compete in their sport once more.

An ever willing to learn practitioner, Tony has gained many qualifications over the years and regularly attends seminars and refresher courses to update his knowledge, thereby keeping up to date with current trends and common practices throughout the physiotherapy and remedial massage sectors.

Qualifications that are useful to Windscale Squash and Fitness are:

• Treatment of sporting injuries
• Electrotherapy
• Sports nutrition  A Guide to Fuel for Performance & Nutrition for Sport
• Sport Psychology
• Olympic weight-lifting and training
• Conventional gymnastics

As can be seen, these qualifications cater for all manner of clients seen within the environs of the Squash and Fitness facility, and this great facility provision means that the club is once again at one with the community, in providing an essential service for the well being of its members and the greater public at large.

Malcolm Knight is our GP referral class (otherwise known as Fitstart) Consultant. Malcolm originally trained as a chemist, specialising in natural products, before taking a business degree in service industry quality. His interest in health and fitness has been his passion from early childhood, and at school and on into university he was a rugby and table tennis player as well as a cyclist or hiker when holidaying. In the 1980's he took up marathon running, before moving to fell running, and then onto triathlon.

When he retired he decided to put something back into the community, and seeing so many of his friends and colleagues succumbing to the effects of lack of fitness, decided to put his love of health and fitness to the forefront once again. He qualified as a personal trainer and then as a GP referral consultant, with specialities covering obesity and diabetes. Malcolm has been practising as the GP referral consultant for over 5 years now and has built up a healthy, in number as well as body, clientele who use the facility regularly.

Fitstart is ideal for those not disposed to high intensity aerobics, or not particularly 'into keep fit', but have a desire to recover from lack of fitness, or as part of a recovery program. The fitstart classes are open to all levels of participants, from those recovering from injury, disease or surgery, especially those that have had heart, pulmonary, knee or back problems, as well as just a general lack of fitness and mobility.

All are welcome, 3 classes are held every Tuesday and Thursday at 9.10am, 10.15am and 14.00pm. All classes are split into three sections, a warm up and stretching session, an aerobics session, which is based around exercise stations or on exercise machines, and a structured cool down.

Cost is £ 10.10/month  or £ 108/yearly.

Linda Winder is currently undergoing GP referral assessment training, enabling her when qualified to also help out with this fantastic resource for the local community.