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Lee Smith MSc, BACPR, CRDET, FMSC

Founder, Specialist Health & Fitness Consultant and Lead Trainer at Aspire 4 Health

Since starting in the profession over 25 years ago, Lee's passion is and has always been to help people achieve the best quality of life in terms of enhancing their health and fitness whilst managing any existing injuries or medical conditions. Lee formed Aspire 4 Health more than 16 years ago to fulfil that passion. Having studied for both his BSc and MSc degrees at the highly respected Leeds Metropolitan University (Carnegie), his special interest is helping people optimise their bodies in terms of muscular balance, postural awareness, and biomechanics in order to prevent inefficient movement and ultimately injury. Lee completed his Functional Movement Screen (FMSC) certifications and regularly assess clients movement patterns at baseline and throughout his programmes to optimise the clients results. Lee is also a REPS (now CIMPSA) level 4 Advanced Instructor who was one of the first 8 people in the country who was approached by the British Lung Foundation to become certified to work with pulmonary patients. Since then Lee has become Nationally certified to work with both Cardiac (British Association of Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation) and Pulmonary (Chronic Respiratory Disease Exercise Training) related conditions. 

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In terms of experience Lee has worked with numerous rehabilitation programmes including the Heartwatch Phase IV Coronary Care group in Leeds as well as taking the Wharfedale Cardiac Rehabilitation Phase IV Exercise class in Otley and the Halifax Pulmonary Rehabilitation programme in association with the Halifax Breathe Easy scheme. In addition Lee has run Fitness Beyond 50 exercise classes for over 15 years and continues to do so today.  Along with this Lee has worked with hundreds of clients over the years of all ages and backgrounds. Lee has a wide range of experience which includes working with people with chronic pain and injury through to preparing people to climb Mount Everest, sail across the Atlantic Ocean or get themselves fit for their sporting events. In terms of sports conditioning Lee has done consultancy work for numerous professional football teams including Huddersfield Town, Bradford City and Scunthorpe United as well as  working one to one with professional athletes and other teams such as the City of Bradford Men's and City of Leeds Women's Waterpolo teams.