Pulmonary rehabilitation: Exercise guide
Last edited: 16/10/2026
A guide to keeping active following pulmonary rehab
Information about ongoing exercise classes and support groups in the local area once you have finished pulmonary rehabilitation.
We hope you have enjoyed your sessions with us and you can feel your fitness improving, your strength increasing and you are able to manage your breath.
We hope you understand the importance of continuing to exercise.
Remember the message is:
“At least 30 minutes of moderate intensity physical activity, five days of the week”
Many local venues offer a variety of classes similar to pulmonary rehab and are run by experienced and qualified instructors.
Exercise referral schemes are designed to promote physical activity for people who have an existing health condition and are physically inactive, or wish to continue to improve their fitness. They include regular assessments and support throughout.
Organisations providing exercise sessions/sports activities for different levels
Move it or lose it
Fun, friendly exercise sessions to music for over 65’s.
Online live classes also available.
Move it or lose it website.
One You walk and talk
One You walk and talk sessions are short, local walks designed to help you to get active, get outdoors and meet new people. They are led by friendly volunteers and usually take from 30 minutes to an hour and a half, leaving from central locations across east Kent, such as your local library. Walks are available for all levels and in all areas.
Everyday active
Every day active is a website run by Kent sport - signposting local activities and information about being active.
Use their website to help you find the perfect activity for your experience and confidence levels, as well as activities that fit in around your everyday life.
Asthma + Lung UK
The Keep Active programme gives you everything you need to start moving more with your lung condition. It includes:
- advice to help you move safely with your lung condition
- breathing techniques to help you when you’re active
- a gentle warm up
- step-by-step exercises to help you feel stronger and more energetic
- a cool down and stretch
Follow the Keep Active videos to get moving in your own time, at a pace that suits you.
Age UK
If you haven’t exercised in a while, don’t worry. Our classes and clubs focus on gentle exercise to help you to regain your fitness at your own pace. If you’re used to regular physical activity, exercises can be tailored to be more strenuous.
Find out what sort of exercise classes your local Age UK runs.
Area specific information
Keeping active following pulmonary rehabilitation
Keep Phytt
Exercise classes designed by a physiotherapist to help you feel confident that you are doing the right exercises for you. First class free. Various locations in Ashford.
Email: info@keepphytt.co.uk
Phone: 07700 173242
Everyday Active
A variety of activities to help you stay active, including seated yoga, walking football and badminton.
Age UK Ashford chair exercises
Chair-based exercise sessions at Farrow Court, Ashford, TN23 5RF.
Phone: 01303 269602
Groovercise
Dance fitness for older adults. An uplifting class designed to help you stay active.
Repton Connect Community Centre, Ashford.
Email: ellie@newgroovecreative.com
Phone: 07456 400307
Stour Centre exercise referral scheme
A supported exercise programme for people with health conditions.
Stour Centre, Station Approach, Ashford, TN23 1ET.
Venues offering schemes we can refer you to
The King's School Recreational Centre
1 St Stephen’s Road, Canterbury, CT2 7HU
01227 595 602
exercisereferral@kingsrecreation.co.uk
Activelife
Herons leisure centre, William street, Herne Bay, CT6 5NX
01227 742102
University of Kent | Sport
Giles Lane, Canterbury, CT2 7NL
Liz Coult: 01227 823623
Classes, sports and Supported gym sessions available – including over 55’s sports and activities
Organisations providing exercise sessions/sports activities for different levels
Walking football
The game is not played as you might see it in the premier league; it is very adaptable, can be played at any level of skill and is open to all abilities.
This new local scheme is part of a wider Age UK programme.
Herne Bay: Sports club
Whitstable: The Whitstable School
Canterbury Mariners walking football
Canterbury: Military road (indoor)
Aylesham: Leisure centre (outdoor)
https://canterburymariners.football/
Alex.cooke@ageukhbw.org.uk
07802 278 307
Reculver and Beltinge memorial hall
- Tai Chi on Fridays
Heather Ausden: 07785 702386 - Pilates
Lissa Fynn: 07722 244405 - Yoga on Thursdays
Sophie Roberts: 07821 759518 - Zumba
Lissa Fynn: 07722 244405 - Gentle Exercise
Lissa Fynn: 07722 244405 - Bowling on Tuesdays
Mrs Bright: 01227 364685 - Paracise - (a new gentle exercise class, designed to improve mobility, flexibility and balance)
Lisa Flynn: 07722 244405
Pilates
07970 105546
celia@favershampilates.co.uk
Zumba
01795 591691
bookings@thealexandercentre.com
Tai Chi
elliecooley@gmail.com
Line Dancing
01227 369747
bookings@thealexandercentre.com
The West Faversham Community Centre
01795 357321
- Chair based exercise class
- Supported gym
Age UK Faversham
The Old Fire Station Crescent Road
ME13 7GU
01795 532766
Free 45 minute seated exercise class
Abbey Psychic Garden
Abbey Place
ME137BG
01795 539915
- Warm up and grounding session
- Walking and lunch
- Men's shed
- Gardening session
- Singing group
- Yoga
If you need help accessing any of these services, please let us know.
Keeping active following pulmonary rehabilitation
Exercise referral scheme – Dover District Leisure Centre
Fitness Fields, Dover, CT16 3FZ.
Fitness and Health | Dover District Leisure Centre
Everyday Active
A range of activities across Deal, Dover and Sandwich, including walking netball, walk and talk and tai chi.
Riverside Community Hub Dover
Standing yoga, standing exercise to music and Qigong, which uses gentle movement and breathing.
The Riverside Centre, Maison Dieu Gardens, Dover, CT16 1RL.
Email: admin@riversidedover.org.uk
Phone: 01304 207268
Super Seniors Fit 4 Life
Exercise sessions to improve strength, flexibility and coordination, boost your mood and energy levels and help you meet new people.
The Landmark Centre, Deal.
Email: info@jansdanceandfitness.com
Phone: 07979 952277
Move it or Lose it
Exercise classes for older adults, designed by experts in ageing to help maintain and improve overall health and wellbeing.
Eastry Village Hall.
Email: info@moveitorloseit.co.uk
Phone: 0800 612 7785
Dover Big Local
Yoga and chair-based exercises.
Charlton Centre, 41 High Street, Dover, CT16 1TT.
Phone: 01304 449385
Midlife Movers
Fun dance and disco classes in Kent.
Email: midlifemovers@gmail.com
Phone: 07342 982160
Local exercise groups - Romney Marsh
Romney Marsh Community Hub
The Hub provides a range of wellbeing activities. It also has a café, open 9am to 2pm for snacks and refreshments.
Activities include:
- Dance Fit
- walking group
- seated exercise
- Pilates
- line dancing
- yoga
- Legs, Bums and Tums
- Shredding
- Tai Chi
- Zumba
- seated Pilates
- Sunflower Singers
- Karate.
Clubs and support groups include:
- games club
- art club
- craft club
- cancer peer support group
- ex-Armed Forces drop-in
- stroke peer support
- arthritis peer support
- bereavement peer support.
Romney Marsh Community Hub
Rolfe Lane
New Romney
TN28 8JR
Phone: 01797 363888
St Mary’s Bay Village Hall
Exercise activities include:
- singing group
- Keep Fit
- sequence dance
- line dancing
- yoga
- chair-based exercise class – phone: 07913 266480
- short mat bowls
- Keep Fit Move to Music – phone: 07815 086999.
Various other clubs are available.
Phone: 07960 016676
Local exercise groups – Folkestone and Hythe
Hawkinge Community Centre
Activities include 60+ Keep Fit, walking football, pickleball and table tennis. Various other clubs and workshops are also available.
Heron Forstal Avenue
Hawkinge
CT18 7FP
Phone: 01303 901775
Moving Well – exercise
Wood Avenue Library
Folkestone
CT19 6HS
Phone: 01304 800300
Active 50
Activities include badminton, football, pickleball, yoga, Pilates, Keep Fit and walking groups.
Three Hills Sports Park
Cheriton Road
Folkestone
CT19 5JU
Phone: 01303 846020
Email: enquiries@3hsp.co.uk
Swimming – Hythe Swimming Pool
36 South Road
Hythe
CT21 6AR
Phone: 01303 269177
Email: hythe.pool@folkesone-hythe.gov.uk
Exercise classes after finishing pulmonary rehab
Broadstairs
Chair dancing
St Peter’s
Wednesday, 10 to 11am
Contact: Lisa Clifford
Phone: 07958 183302
Seated exercise
Queens Road Baptist Church
Monday, 10.45 to 11.45am and 11.45am to 12.45pm
Thursday, 11.30am to 12.30pm
Contact: Coral
Phone: 01843 602762
TARA – Thanet Active Retirement Association
Tuesday afternoons.
Ramsgate
Fun Fit – Ramsgate Leisure Centre
Seven-week course
Friday, 12.30 to 1.25pm
Phone: 03333 660 661
Dance – Ramsgate Leisure Centre
Seven-week course
Thursday, 12.45 to 1.30pm
Phone: 03333 660 661
Yoga – Ramsgate Leisure Centre
Seven-week course
Wednesday, 12.30 to 1.25pm
Phone: 03333 660 661
Walking football – Ramsgate FC
Wednesday and Friday, 10am to 12noon
Contact: Rob
Phone: 07488 391571
Men’s speaking group – Ramsgate FC
Contact: Gary Smith
Margate
Chair dance
St Philip’s, Cliftonville
Thursday, 11.30am
Contact: Lisa Clifford
Phone: 07958 183302
Pilates
St Philip’s Church, Cliftonville
Wednesday, 10 to 11am
Contact: Andrea
Phone: 01843 294068
Aqua class – Hartsdown Leisure Centre
Seven-week course
Friday, 11am to 12noon
Phone: 03333 660 661
Fun Fit – Hartsdown Leisure Centre
Seven-week course
Wednesday, 1.45 to 2.30pm
Phone: 03333 660 661
Kent Active Retirement Fellowship
Methodist Church, Garlinge.
Westgate
Line dancing
Tuesday, 7 to 8pm
Contact: Theo or Janet
Phone: 01843 833643
Birchington
Line dancing
Birchington Village Hall
Friday, 2 to 3pm
Contact: Theo or Janet
Phone: 01843 833643
Coffee club – Birchington Methodist Church
Wednesday, 11am to 12noon
Contact: Nadine
Phone: 01843 844600
Move it or Lose it – Alpha Centre
Thursday, 1 to 2pm
Contact: Kim
Phone: 07793 047771
Strength and balance – Alpha Centre
Thursday, 2.15 to 3.15pm
Contact: Kim
Phone: 07793 047771
Pilates – Alpha Centre
Tuesday, 10 to 11am
Contact: Diana
Phone: 07810 115087
Contact us
Pulmonary Rehabilitation Team
Whitstable and Tankerton Hospital
We are open Monday to Friday, 8am to 4pm.
If you leave a message after these times, we will get back to you the next working day.
This information should only be followed on the advice of a healthcare professional.
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