FirstHealth Center for Health & Fitness: Benefits of Exercise
| Date Posted: 2/26/2013 | Author: Mandy McCue
There are major benefits to exercise and according to the Mayo Clinic they are weight control, combats health conditions and diseases, improves mood, boosts energy, promotes better sleep, and can improve your quality of life.
For bariatric surgery patients, exercise provides more benefit than those listed. Depending on which stage of surgery you are in, pre-operative, in hospital or post-operative, stage appropriate exercises can prepare the body for surgery, provide blood clot prevention, aid recovery, and increase fat breakdown and muscle mass.
Knowledge of how to work out properly and a lack of motivation are common road blocks people encounter on the road to becoming healthy. Luckily for you, FirstHealth offers the help you need to ensure optimal weight-loss after surgery, the FirstHealth Center for Health & Fitness.
With 63,000 square feet the FirstHealth Center for Health & Fitness – Pinehurst is more than just a gym. It not only offers the region’s largest free-weight area, innovative group exercise classes, aquatic center, swimming lessons, children programs, nutrition services and an on-site spa. But it is also staffed with personal trainers, fitness coaches and a licensed dietitian, to help you become a healthier and stronger version of you.
Post-operative patients from the FirstHealth Bariatric Center are entered into the FirstHealth Center for Health & Fitness’s Exercise is Medicine program where they receive a two-week pass to the Health & Fitness center to learn and work with exercise professionals.
To learn more about the services the FirstHealth Center for Health & Fitness please call (910) 715-1800. FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital offers weight-loss services and support to patients in the Pinehurst, Raeford, Lumberton, Sanford, Laurinburg, Rockingham, and Troy regions of North Carolina and beyond.
