Training Package
Foundations Of Healthy Living
🎬 Contains VideosExplore healthy lifestyles, personal wellbeing, fitness and substance-related risks, and learn to build practical daily habits that support energy, balance and long-term health.
£2.00 per learner
About this package
Foundations of Healthy Living introduces the everyday choices that support health and personal wellbeing. It presents a healthy lifestyle as a sustainable pattern rather than a short burst of effort or a set of rules to follow perfectly. Learners explore nutrition, sleep, physical activity and work-life balance, considering how repeated habits affect energy, concentration, recovery and long-term health. The package also addresses common obstacles, including busy routines, low motivation and established habits, with an emphasis on practical changes that fit ordinary life.
The personal wellbeing content broadens the focus beyond physical health. It examines physical, mental, emotional and social wellbeing, using the wellbeing wheel or model to explain how these areas influence one another. Learners consider wellbeing in terms of how a person is functioning, rather than simply whether they are happy or free from illness. This helps them recognise connections between sleep, fatigue, clear thinking, emotional regulation and relationships, and consider daily practices that support several areas of wellbeing.
The fitness sections explain the benefits of regular exercise and introduce four core components of fitness. Fitness is framed around the capacity to manage everyday physical demands, rather than appearance alone. Learners then examine how to choose activities suited to their current ability, time, environment and preferences. The content covers structuring exercise sessions, progressing safely, allowing recovery and interpreting the body's signals, helping learners think about routines they can realistically repeat and maintain.
The final sections examine smoking, vaping, alcohol and drugs. They explain nicotine dependence, the role of the brain's reward system and how repeated substance use can lead to accumulating harm. Learners also explore how psychoactive substances affect attention, reaction time, judgement, memory and mood, and why legal status does not by itself indicate safety. Together, these topics connect healthy daily habits with awareness of behaviours that can undermine wellbeing. The stated outcomes bring this learning together through the design of a simple daily wellbeing plan containing at least three evidence-based habits.
Who it’s for
This introductory package suits learners developing their understanding of healthy living and personal wellbeing. It is relevant to students and staff exploring sustainable daily habits, safe exercise choices and substance-related health risks.
What’s covered
Understanding Healthy Lifestyles
Explores what a healthy lifestyle means and its key pillars: nutrition, sleep, physical activity and work-life balance. Explains why repeated behaviours matter more than occasional efforts, alongside barriers to maintaining healthy habits.
Personal Wellbeing and the Wellbeing Wheel
Introduces physical, mental, emotional and social wellbeing and how these dimensions connect. Uses the wellbeing wheel or model to consider overall functioning, including energy, concentration, feelings and relationships.
Benefits and Core Components of Fitness
Explains how regular exercise supports health and how the body adapts to repeated physical challenges. Introduces four core components of fitness, relating fitness to everyday tasks and the capacity to manage physical demands.
Safe Exercise Choices and Routine Building
Examines how to choose exercise that matches current ability, available time, surroundings and personal preferences. Covers session structure, safe progression, recovery and recognising the body's signals.
Smoking, Vaping and Alcohol-Related Health Risks
Examines the health risks associated with smoking, vaping and alcohol. Explains nicotine's effects on the brain's reward system, dependence and the cues that can reinforce repeated use.
Drugs, Legality and Substance Misuse Consequences
Explores how psychoactive substances alter brain and body function, including attention, judgement, mood and coordination. Considers legality, prescribed medicines and misuse, showing why a substance's legal status alone does not establish its safety.
Learning outcomes
By completing this package, learners can:
- Define a healthy lifestyle and describe its key pillars: nutrition, sleep, physical activity and work-life balance.
- Explain how healthy habits can improve energy levels, productivity and long-term health outcomes.
- Identify common barriers to healthy living and describe practical strategies to overcome them.
- Summarise personal wellbeing across physical, mental, emotional and social dimensions.
- Analyse how the different areas of the wellbeing wheel or model influence one another.
- Design a simple daily wellbeing plan that includes at least three evidence-based habits to support overall personal wellbeing.
What’s included
A deployable SCORM package with practical learning content, ready for your LMS.
How it works
Add access, upload the package to your LMS, and pay per learner who uses it.
Frequently asked questions
What does Foundations of Healthy Living cover?
The package covers healthy lifestyle habits, the four dimensions of personal wellbeing, fitness benefits and safe exercise routines. It also examines smoking, vaping, alcohol, drugs and the consequences of substance misuse.
How is the package delivered?
It is delivered as an e-learning package uploaded to your organisation's own LMS. Learners access the content through that LMS, and the package includes video.
What is the wellbeing wheel used for?
The wellbeing wheel or model helps learners consider physical, mental, emotional and social wellbeing together. The content explores how changes in one area can influence the others, rather than treating each area in isolation.
Does the package cover choosing and maintaining an exercise routine?
Yes. It covers choosing activities that suit current ability, time, environment and preferences, as well as structuring sessions, progressing safely and allowing recovery.
What practical outcome does the learning aim to support?
One of the stated learning outcomes is to design a simple daily wellbeing plan containing at least three evidence-based habits. The package also aims to help learners recognise barriers to healthy living and describe practical ways to overcome them.
Does the substance-related content go beyond illegal drugs?
Yes. It includes smoking, vaping and alcohol, and considers how legal substances and prescribed medicines can also cause harm when misused. It examines effects on judgement, attention, reaction time, memory and mood.
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