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Tim Webster

Tim Webster’s community work includes mentoring the homeless in London with the Big Issue, chairing Big Brothers Big Sisters of Christchurch, helping small roadside businesses in Uganda with his microfinance company Capital for Life, and most recently founding a charitable trust in New Zealand called Exercise as Medicine NZ, which launched in 2018. Through this organisation, Tim and his wife Kris Tynan deliver targeted exercise and rehabilitation programmes to people with long-term health conditions like Parkinson’s, MS, stroke, heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis, diabetes, fibromyalgia, and arthritis. With over 40 years’ experience in health and fitness, Tim is also a Justice of the Peace in New Zealand and even holds a UK private pilot’s licence.

 Key expertise:

  • Author of training courses for exercise professionals covering Parkinson’s, MS, stroke, respiratory conditions, prostate cancer, kidney disease and cognitive skills.
  • Presenter at fitness events around the world, including IHRSA and Club Industry in the US, Filex in Australia, The All Russian Congress on Physical Activity in Moscow and other European events.
  • Founder of Bodylife UK in 1994, which became one of the UK fitness industry’s leading publishing, training and conferencing organisations.
  • Facilitator of the European Club Leaders Congress.

Qualifications & Awards

Physical Education Diploma from Loughborough University.
Functional Rehabilitation and Exercise After Stroke (The ARNI Institute), Brain Fit for Life (Mental Acuity), Cognitive Rehabilitation after Mild Brain Injury, PD Warrior and Counterpunch for Parkinson’s.
UK Fitness Industry Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.

CPD Courses by Tim Webster

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Parkinson's Pro
CPDs: 10 (The maximum CPD points awarded by CIMSPA for any course) Parkinson's Pro is a course to support the...
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Multiple Sclerosis and the Exercise Professional
MS is an autoimmune, progressive, inflammatory, demyelinating disease. It’s autoimmune because the immune system mistakenly attacks normal cells in the...
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Stroke and the Exercise Professional
This foundation course is designed to give exercise professionals the knowledge and skills to begin working with stroke survivors.
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Memory Skills for Exercise Professionals
One of the most common complaints you’ll hear from older adults is that their memory is getting worse. Often, they...
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Kidney Disease and the Exercise Professional
Gain a practical insight into working confidently with clients or class participants who have kidney disease in this introductory course....
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Respiratory Conditions For Exercise Professionals
This introductory course is designed to give you, the exercise professional, practical knowledge to allow you to work confidently with...
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Prostate Cancer for Exercise Professionals
This introductory course allows students to gain an overview of prostate cancer and the various treatment and management pathways. The...

Blogs by Tim Webster

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Memories are made of this – How the memory works
Tim Webster takes a walk down memory lane and visits the three stages of the...
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Working with stroke survivors
Tim Webster looks at the impact a stroke can have on the body and how...
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The many faces of Parkinson’s
Tim Webster introduces you to some of his clients who have Parkinson’s and their challenges....
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How the Parkinson’s Pro creates his programming
Tim Webster shares the fun antics of his group of clients with Parkinson’s and how...
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Become a Parkinson’s Pro this winter
With 2020 just around the corner, now is the perfect time for personal development to...