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Flexibility activities help you to move more easily so that you can accomplish the daily tasks necessary for independent living and self-reliance. Flexibility activities help you to keep your joints health and maintain your mobility.
-Health Canada: Physical Activity Guide for Older Adults 2007
Building a snowman is a great way to help you use your muscles by bending and stretching.
-Canada's Physical Activity Guide: Gotta Move (6-8yrs)
Research tells us that being active reduces the risk of heart disease, falls and injuries, obesity, high blood pressure, adult-onset diabetes, osteoporosis, stroke, depression, colon cancer and premature death.
-Health Canada: Physical Activity Guide for Older Adults 2007
Some examples of moderate physical activity include: (45-60 minutes) washing and waxing the car, washing windows or floors (30 minutes), raking leaves, pushing self in wheelchair, water aerobics, (20 minutes) swimming laps, shoveling snow or stairwalking.
-RHA Central Region |
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Over 30% of adult Manitobans aren't doing much of anything physically. Projected across the province, that is close to 270,000 people.
-U of M: The Good, the Bad, the Urgency 2007
Here are some ideas to get you started: walk more to a friends house, the park, the mall, play sports, go skating, swimming or biking, rake the leaves, shovel snow, stretch your muscles everyday, be active with your friends.
-Canada's Physical Activity Guide for Youth (10- 14)
Provide your child with opportunities to be active. Make physical activity part of your family routines.
-www.centre4activeliving.ca
Participate together in activities. Take time to be an active family. Family time spent cycling, swimming, hiking, camping, or playing ball will give your child a positive attitude about physical activity.
-www.centre4activeliving.ca |
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Strength activities are those that challenge all your muscles. Strength and balancing activities help you to keep muscles and bones strong, reduce bone loss, and improve balance and posture.
-Health Canada: Physical Activity Guide for Older Adults 2007
Some strength activities to choose from include: lifting weights, carrying laundry, climbing stairs, wall pushups, and standing up and sitting down several times in a row.
-Health Canada: Physical Activity for Older Adults 2007 |
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Childhood overweight and obesity is a major public health concern since, once developed, the unhealthy lifestyle habits adopted during childhood and adolescence not only result in early manifestations of chronic disease but also tend to follow that individual throughout the lifespan.
-Women's Health Surveillance Report: Physical Activity and Obesity 2003
Some great physical activities for preschoolers include: endurance activities such as running, jumping, swimming; flexibility activities like gymnastics, dancing and strength building activities like climbing.
-Dieticians of Canada 2003 |
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Strength activities are those that challenge all your muscles. Strength and balancing activities help you to keep muscles and bones strong, reduce bone loss, and improve balance and posture.
-Health Canada: Physical Activity Guide for Older Adults 2007
Some strength activities to choose from include: lifting weights, carrying laundry, climbing stairs, wall pushups, and standing up and sitting down several times in a row.
-Health Canada: Physical Activity Guide for Older Adults 2007 |
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Canada's Physical Activity Guideline recommends building 20 minutes of vigourous activity 4 times a week into your exercise routine. That's roughly an hour and a half per week.
- Dieticians of Canada
Brisk walking is an aerobic activity. It increases the body's demand for oxygen and trains your heart, lungs and muscles to work more efficiently.
-Health Canada: Participaction 1993 |
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Physical activity does not have to be hard to improve your health.
-Health Canada: Physical Activity Guide for Older Adults 2007 |
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There are many ways to get up and mobing. Some ideas include: taking a baby for a stroll, set your alarm to remind you to take a 2 minute walk, take up an active hobby, sweep the patio or sidewalk, mow the lawn twice a week, or plan some errands that require walking.
-RHA Central Region |
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As few as 10% of Manitoba children and teens get the amount of daily physical activity that Health Canada Guidelines recommend.
-A Generation at Risk: Low Physical Activity in Young Manitobans Health Leisure and Human Performance Research Institute 2007
Being physically active every day helps young children learn and develop basic movement or motor skills, learn that being active is fun, learn about their environment, have energy during the day and sleep better at night, relax and relieve stress, and remain physically active as they get older.
-Kids in Motion 2007 |
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