Active for Health

What is it?

There are many benefits of being active including:

• lower blood pressure and resting heart rate, ensuring your heart is more efficient

• improved sleep at night

• improved mood through endorphins released within the body

• helping maintain bone strength to prevent osteoporosis later in life

• keeping muscles strong and joints supple.

Active for Health is a new 12-week activity programme for adults (18 and over) to help you become active and move more. You can sign up for the Active for Health programme if you have a BMI of 25 or over, or 23.5 if you are from the BME community.

Active for Health Xtra is a new 12-week activity programme for adults (50 years and over) who have at least two of the additional risk factors of Cardiovascular Disease; diabetes, are a smoker, high blood pressure, have an unhealthy diet, have high cholesterol, family history of heart disease, are from a Black, Asian or minority background, are inactive, drink alcohol to excess, are overweight or obese.

The programmes will include a range of activities to help you improve your fitness, socialise, learn new skills, and ultimately improve your overall wellbeing.

Located at either a leisure centre, community venue or in a public open space, the programmes consists of 12 weeks of group activities including fitness classes, walking sports, team games, healthy eating, and wellbeing walks. Activities will be chosen by the group in consultation with the coach.

Once signed up for the 12-week course, each participant will receive a free 90-day offer to use the One Leisure or Freedom Leisure facilities subject to eligibility criteria*. This membership includes activities such as badminton**, squash**, cyclone (indoor cycling), the gym, fitness classes, and swimming, amongst other targeted activities delivered across One Leisure or Freedom Leisure.

What are the eligibility criteria?

When and where is it?

Huntingdonshire