Active Cheshire connects the environments where our communities spend their time, with bespoke physical activity offers, co-designed to match best practice with individual need.
Regular physical activity provides a range of physical and mental health benefits. These include reducing the risk of disease, managing existing conditions, and developing and maintaining physical and mental function.
The UK Chief Medical Officers’ (CMO’s) guidelines provide recommendations on the frequency, intensity, duration and types of physical activity at different life stages, from early to later years. Benefits are accrued over time, but it is never too late to gain health benefits from taking up physical activity. The guidelines are:
aim to be physically active every day.
For good physical and mental health. Any activity is better than none, and more is better still
aim to minimise the amount of time spent being sedentary
When physically possible should break up long periods of inactivity with at least light physical activity.
do activities to develop or maintain strength in the major muscle groups
These could include heavy gardening, carrying heavy shopping, or resistance exercise. Muscle strengthening activities should be done on at least two days a week, but any strengthening activity is better than none.
accumulate at least 150 minutes (2 1/2 hours) of moderate intensity activity
or 75 minutes of vigorous intensity activity; or even shorter durations of very vigorous intensity activity (such as sprinting or stair climbing); or a combination of moderate, vigorous and very vigorous intensity activity.
EXERCISE RESOURCES
Exercise guidelines and workouts to help improve your fitness and wellbeing can be found here:
Exercise in pregnancy, the more active and fit you are during pregnancy, the easier it will be for you to adapt to your changing shape and weight gain. It will also help you to cope with labour. Further guidance can be found here:
Sport & physical activity opportunities in and around the Cheshire and Warrington area
There really is something to suit everyone out there and so many benefits to be had from getting physically active. Below we’ve provided links to a range of reputable websites designed to help you find the right sport or physical activity for you.
(Please note – The links are run by third parties, we’re not able to vet the activities and so you should make sure you are happy with the quality and safety of sessions before participating and/or choosing to let an under 18-year-old participate who’s in your care.)
Cheshire East
Cheshire West and Chester
Campaigns
Other support
Connected
Active Cheshire CONNECTED will work in partnership with local trusted organisations to support communities to use new and existing infrastructure (including digital) to ensure ageing well means more years of happy, healthy life.
