Health demographic trends indicate a need for a radical shift in the way we tackle the obesity epidemic. To date, relatively little attention has been directed towards exposing student healthcare professionals to assessment of body composition and adiposity. We introduced a series of interactive applied physiology workshops to engage nursing students who were learning about lifestyle management interventions and their potential for promoting physical health and mental well-being. Students were asked to prepare for the sessions by completing a flipped learning Physical Activity Questionnaire and Diet survey. The first workshop stations included anthropometric measurements (Goacher Lambert and Moffat, 2012; Grasten and Watt, 2016), blood pressure, total cholesterol and calculation of QRISK3. In the second session, students used personal response system (clickers) to respond to 20 True/False statements about exercise physiology and diets, which revealed many myths and misconceptions. Students then undertook a timed walk in small groups (up to 30 minutes) recording pulse, blood pressure and oxygen saturation (% O2) before and after. Assessment of student learning was formative through analysis of QRISK3 for patient cases supported by action plans for each person.Students’ feedback about these workshops has been positive, reporting that they prefer the “bite-sized” format and feel they learn more than in lectures. Since qualified nurses are more likely to be overweight, have higher levels of stress and get less sleep than average (Trossman, 2009; American Nurses Association, 2017) there is a need to engage student nurses with the aim of deepening their understanding of positive health impacts of regular physical activity (Hanson and Jones, 2015). Activity-based workshops provided opportunities for co-operative learning; intermittent probing questions prompted dialogue and discussion about a wide range of related topics such as perceptions of obesity, metabolic syndrome, obesogenic environments and sedentary lifestyles. Further evaluation is required, but interactive workshops clearly offer potential for powerful and engaging learning about causative factors of obesity and short- and long-term consequences including vascular disease and type II diabetes. Although our aim was to focus on prevention through improved levels of physical activity, the workshops revealed that it was important to emphasise that students were not expected to share personal measurements or discuss their body compositions with others. Although they appear to be inclined towards adopting healthier lifestyle behaviours, we also found that a number of students chose not to engage with a short “star-jump” session or the group walking activity. There appears to be an additional need to support student nurses’ learning about sustaining own well-being and modelling optimal health behaviours.