{"id":781369,"date":"2026-05-08T06:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T06:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/781369\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T06:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T06:26:12","slug":"free-fitness-sessions-in-slough-a-lifeline-for-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/781369\/","title":{"rendered":"Free fitness sessions in Slough a &#8216;lifeline&#8217; for residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kamuben Patel, 80, said she had seen a huge difference since she started the sessions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Because I live on my own it helps me to move on and just be strong and do things myself,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I like to do things myself and not be dependent on anybody&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Amandeep Managat, from Viva Slough, created the Boost Health programme after becoming concerned about public health in the town and had discussions with local GPs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">GPs sent text messages to patients that had certain health conditions such as diabetes and heart conditions encouraging them to attend the free exercise classes when they started &#8211; with 150 people turning up to the first one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It has been a real lifeline for some of these residents,&#8221; Amandeep said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The sessions later expanded into multiple classes a week and were classed as a social prescription.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Amandeep added that the sessions were currently over subscribed, so additional funding was being sough to expand further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kamuben Patel, 80, said she had seen a huge difference since she started the sessions. &#8220;Because I live&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":781370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[1198,210,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-781369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-fitness","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116537536696975641","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}