5 New Year #Resolutions to GREEN up Your Health and Fitness!

With January underway it's time to green up you health and fitness, here are some great ways of improving your health and fitness and tick off some of those top new years resolutions.  You can start them right away with these wonderful courses and fitness sessions.  Start as you mean to go on there is no time like now to take action to improve your health and fitness.

New Year Resolutions #1 " I want to get fitter"

New Year Resolutions # 2 " I want to do something new"

New Year Resolutions #3 " I want to do something to help a charity"

New Year Resolutions #4 " I want to overcome my fear of Public Speaking"

New Year Resolutions #5 " I want to meet new people and make new friends"

Upcoming Courses

08-01-2011:

Green Woodwork Group

12:00 - 15:00

09-01-2011:

Ketton Foray

12:15 - 17:11

10-01-2011:

Green on Public Speaking

18:15 - 21:00

15-01-2011:

Nordic Walk Taster Session

10:15 - 11:00

15-01-2011:

Step Up it's the YMCA GYM open day

10:00 - 16:00

15-01-2011:

Aerobic Studio Fitness

13:00 - 14:00

15-01-2011:

ViPR Vitality Fitness Taster Session

15:00 - 15:30

15-01-2011:

Fitness Walking Taster Session

14:30 - 15:00

15-01-2011:

GYM CIRCUIT FITNESS Session

11:30 - 12:00

We hope you enjoy the fabulous fun fitness activity day at the YMCA and other fun courses offered through the Greeniversity. Tell all your friends about it. To book your places please follow the links on the page. For any information about the fitness course being offered please send us a message .

Next Week's Greeniversity Courses...

Next Week’s FREE Greeniversity Courses:


~ Saturday 7th August ~

Picnic on the Meadows
A day of family fun including live music, Heart FM on-stage, helicopter rides and more!

~ Sunday 8th August ~

Bus-Walk – Nene Panorama
Explore Peterborough’s beautiful landscape with an experienced walk leader

~ Wednesday 11th August ~

Fire by Friction – Family Discovery Day
A day of family fun – learn the ancient technique of making fire without matches"

Facebook | Learn to Nordic Walk for Health & Fitness

Facebook Learn to Nordic Walk for Health & Fitness

Hope you had a great weekend and are now refreshed and looking forward to your learn to Nordic Walking course.

The next Peterborough based LEARN to NORDIC WALK will start:

Friday the 16th of JULY at 18:30 pm or on the first available Friday that minimum numbers are reached.

This and each follow on introductory course will run for 4 weeks x 1.5 hours - Peterborough location to be advised. This will be confirmed once sufficient numbers are reached. To book your place on this course please complete the attached forms downloads available on the website and return it to me with your payment at the earliest opportunity. You can either post it or pop round - just give me a call first to arrange if it's the latter. Let me know should any questions arise. Look foward to hearing from you soon. Please pass this information to any friends who you think might benefit from learning this fantastic activity for better health, fitness and wellbeing.

Folksworthy Nordic

According to a recent article in the register of exercise professionals journal, Nordic Walking is not just another fad and this turned out to be the case when I recently paid a visit to the Folksworth 15 on Sunday the 24th of January with my Nordic Walking poles. Whilst my fellow club runners were intent on pounding the rural roads through Folksworth and surrouding environs through high intensity running activity. I found it particularly inspiring to walk in a Nordic fashion complete with poles to see who might be interested in this fantastic, low impact, high results, activity of Nordic Walking. I set up stall in the community school and soon the race goers started to ask questions. A Riverside Runner said "would you be able to organise a distance walk at a good pace" As my background is endurance a distance walk at a good pace would be well within my capacity so my response was to ask "how far would you like to walk and at what kind of pace?" One Werrington Jogger approached me to say this would be ideal for his wife and he would let her know that Learn to Nordic Walk classes are now available at Werrington.

Next I found myself chatting to a marvellous man who is over 70 years young, he said "how do the poles differ to trekking poles?" He had some of those at home. "The trekking poles are different and useful in other circumstances and unsuitable for the activity of Nordic Walking, the pole is held a different angle. By contrast the Nordic pole is held an angle that minimises stress through the joints and in turn helps to improve postural imbalances" . This allowed me to offer the sprightly gent an opportunity to have a quick trial session. At the end of this sample session, he said with a big grin " I would like to do a lot more of this. There are some great places to go locally and it would be lovely to walk with other like minded people and I would prefer that than walking alone". He is now looking forward to joining a small group of a similar age at a class due to be launched in Bretton park soon. Other parts of the country have had a lot of success from Age Concern where Nordic Walking has become widely successful in helping people like Tony to become more active.

Shortly after I met a lady who had Parkinsons Disease and she said "I've been reading about Nordic Walking and how it can help people with Parkinsons " Recent medical publications highlight the facts: " Nordic Walking improves mobility in Parkinsons ". This lovely lady was keen for me to deliver a talk to her local group about the benefits of this new Nordic activity. As I was an accomplished speaker, a member of a local group, Anglia Communicators I said I woudl be delighted to offer a talk to this group as requested. What an amazing day, lots of interest from a diverse set of individuals, both men and women a lot of scope to allow others to benefit from this low impact activity which is destined to get big results!

Change4Life

Introducing change4life...

Today at long last Active Edge Solutions is proud to announce it's partnership and support for the change4life campaign.

The change4life campaign is designed to help us all especially our kids, eat better, move more and live longer.

The problem according to Jane Austen was that some things are caught and not taught. In Jane Austen's time wealthy people lived off the fat of the land. Modern lifestyle makes it hard for us to eat healthy food and consequently it is people on tighter budgets that live off the saturated fat of the land. What kind of lessons do your kids learn if they see you being inactive, eating highly saturated fats, snacks, crisps and sweets?

According to the government foresight report, if we carry on at the current rage 9 out of 10 children grow up to have dangerous levels of fat in their bodies. Research has shown that many parents are unware of the risks to their children. Family food consumption is generally underestimated by parents and the amount of family activity is overestimated. It is estimated that 1 in 10 parents realise that their children are overweight or obese. This situation has been called a 'time-bomb'.

This campaign will help our nation to gain a greater understanding of how parents can help their family improve lifestyles and habits for healthier choices which will lead to a better way of life.

8 easy tips to change4life

1. sugar swaps

Swapping sugary snacks and drinks for ones that are low in sugar cane make a huge difference to your kid's calorie consumption

2. meal time

it is important for kids to have regular balanced meals or they may miss out on essential nutrients.

3. me size meal

Growing kids need to eat the right amount for their age.

4. snack check

Many snacks are full of fat, sugar and salt. Keep an eye on the amount of less healthy snacks your kids eat.

5. 5 a day

It's easier than you think go give your kids five protions of fruit and veg every day. Kid portions is roughly a handful of fruit and veg.

6. cut back on fat

Every one knows too much fat is bad, but is not always easy to know where it is hidden.

7. 60 active minutes

Kids need 60 minutes of activity to help them to stay happy and healthy.

8. up and about

Too many long hours before a TV, a computer or video game may mean our bodies don't burn enough fat.

Find lots more tips and ideas to help you kids stay happy, fit and healthy. sign up to Change4life today.

Search for change4life or call 0300 123 4567

Preventing the Spread of Swine Flu...

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originally uploaded by National Media Museum.

Your continued actions in prevention of swineflu spreading is considered to better than a cure!

Preventing the spread of Swine Flu in UK Source Nature Sunshine

Issue Date: 24th July 2009

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