Inclusion criteria |
• Able to give informed consent to participate in the study |
• Aged between 40–70 years |
• Recruited from within primary care |
• At medium (≥10 and < 20 %) or high (≥20 %) risk of cardiovascular disease and/or type II diabetes mellitus |
Exclusion criteria |
• People with existing coronary heart disease, chronic kidney disease, (stages 3–5), diabetes mellitus, stroke, heart failure and peripheral arterial disease |
• Resting blood pressure greater than 180/100 mmHg |
• Body mass index greater than 40 kg/m2 |
• Currently pregnant |
• Currently taking any medications that may affect weight loss |
• Not fluent in English |
• Currently participating in another research trial or lifestyle supportive intervention |
• People reporting a recent (in the last 6 months) shift (>5 %) in body mass or large change in habitual lifestyle |
• Individuals unable to change their physical activity (e.g. through disability) or individuals who already lead highly physically active lifestyles (PAL > 2.0) |
• Insufficient baseline physical activity data (<6 valid monitoring days including a Saturday and Sunday) |
• People with terminal illness and anyone who, in their general practitioner’s opinion, has other co-morbidities which would prevent engagement with the intervention |